Celebrating seven days of Spring
Spring in Victoria is a weird concept. It definitely doesn’t start on 1 September – the days may be getting slightly longer and some plants may start showing very small [...]
Homeland
Do you have any grapes?
So there I was, barely two days off the plane from California, as sick as a dog, coughing my lungs out…. But I had booked this day off my “day job” more than a [...]
Regeneration through the moist breath of decay
From day one at Homeland we wanted to have our own compost heap. Even before we did our studies of organic gardening and attended a biodynamics course, we knew the value of [...]
Meanwhile at homeland…
With all the developments going on at Dreamland, it may seem as if Homeland is getting neglected. But despite the tell-tale weeds and overgrown grass, we’ve been [...]
Winter wonderland
Frostbite toes, frozen fingers – just came in from doing the Valerian spray run to try and salvage some frost-damaged plants. The weather reports show between -2C and [...]
The magic of fermented cow poo and biodynamics
We have been actively following Biodynamic principles and using Biodynamic methods for about 4 years now. In a nutshell, Biodynamics is a holistic, ecological, and ethical [...]
Vines = grapes, right?
We inherited some grapes, of unknown colour and variety, which were planted in our vegetable patch. But they weren’t doing so well. In fact, despite all our efforts, very [...]
About elephants and bull ants
In those early days when we laid out the vegetable patch we made a lot of mistakes. Sure some of those were our own errors, because we had no idea up-front how big our [...]
Autumn hues
Sometime we get so busy focusing on food production and sustainability that we almost forget to sit back, breathe and enjoy the colours and the flavours. Well, almost… [...]
Potato production pasted
So our vegetables were growing and mostly producing really well – we had something of everything in their appropriate seasons. Well, that is, except potatoes. So we started [...]
