The Pottiputki.

I'm sure you are all dying to know what this farm tool with the funny name does.

Come back here tomorrow and I'll fill you in on all the details.

In the mean time, if you would like to take a guess, I'd love to read it!

Happy Birthday Liam!

Happy Birthday Liam!

May your days be filled with old time music, your gorgeous family, an abundance of produce, a fiddle and a banjo and socks without holes in them.

String line planting.

Its planting day today.

Before we start we have to run out the string lines.

The string lines work like ruled lines to ensure the planting is done in neat, straight lines.

Having straight plantings not only looks neater but it is also necessary for precision weeding.

Weeding is so much quicker and more efficient if you can go straight down a line without going in and out and around the plants.

String line done.

Let's get planting....carrots, beetroots, radishes, spring onions, turnips, parsley root, coriander and fennel.

Raspberries.

Living on an certified organic egg, fruit and vegetable farm, almost everything we grow gets sold to shops, restaurants or at markets.

But not these babies!

They are perfect and they are going nowhere.

Free Range Chooks.

My Grandfather often tells us that when he dies he wants to come back as one of our chooks. He thinks they have the best life and I have to say, I agree.

At this time of the year they are moved from paddock to paddock following after the winter crop harvests and through the green manure crops, eating the scraps, scratching up the soil and fertilizing the ground.

By the way, there is a lovely article in today's The Age newspaper's Epicure supplement about Alla Wolf - Taska and the Lake House's 25th anniversary. Bren gets a lovely mention in it too. Check it out here.

Green magazine shoot.

Last Wednesday we had Green magazine's Tamsin and Roma at Daylesford Organics for a photo shoot that will accompany an article in the next issue.

The girl's had a go at Bren's juggling the egg yolk trick.

Roma caught chickens for Pepper.

And did cool moves.

And pulled some garlic.

We picked broad beans.

Bren discussed his beloved soil.

The girls collected worms.

And Tamsin photographed it.

This is a page in the latest issue of Green magazine that we bought today.

See that bit where it says Beloved organics A family and their farm?

That's us.

Red currants.

This year we are growing currants for the first time.

We have red, white and black currants.

We have delivered almost a kilo to a restaurant in Melbourne but I am keen to use some of them at home.

How do you eat your currants? Do you have any great currant recipes?