Farmgate Fresh:
Limited amounts of seasonal produce fresh from the farm.
Now available:
Blueberries

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Summer 2011
We had just let our cattle into this portion of our
main flat paddock. We usually cut hay from this area but, with the
rainfall again this year, the ground is just too soft for the tractors
and implements. It is really too long for good pasture feed but it was
either let it go stalky or let the steers loose on it. They manage to
eat most of it but trample a fair bit in the process. However, it does
open up the ground a lot and help it to dry out.
In the photo above, just to give you some sense of
size of the cattle, the Hereford on the right would probably weigh in at
700 kg while the Angus calf on the left is one of our newest batch and
still has his baby winter coat of longer fur.
The walnut trees are growing much better this year.
While the ground is still high in moisture this year, it is not totally sodden
as it was all through last Summer. At least we did have actual floods
last year like some growers up in northern Victoria suffered ....
(18/12/2011)
About DeadHorseCreek
Dead Horse Creek is situated in picturesque Neerim
East in a valley in
the southern foothills of Victoria's eastern ranges. We have enough
rainfall (about a metre a year in non-drought years) to remain green all through summer
and, with 2 permanent creeks, we manage to escape the Australian
archetype of the "Wide Brown Land" during summer.
We are surrounded by bush* on two sides and farms on
the other two (see Farm Photos).
With the bush to the south and east, we are protected
from the worst of the bushfire season with the prevailing wind pattern
in summer coming from the north and west, especially on hot days.
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