The Sumi Soaker.

The Sumi Soaker is another irrigation tool we use here at Daylesford Organics.

Here it is in action watering in some seeds we planted today before the full moon.

Basically it is a pipe full of holes.

It is a handy tool as it comes on a reel that can be carried in one hand, it is easy and quick to set up and waters a 50m x 5m area.

From Daylesford Organics we wish you a happy, safe and abundant new year.

Irrigation.

Every year over summer we make jokes about Bren having another girlfriend called Tap, as he is constantly jumping up and going to change the irrigation taps.

At this time of year its all about the water.

We use these wobbler sprinklers until the seed germinates and then we swap to drip tape.

Our farm gate stall is opening on Sunday. I hope you can come and see us soon.

Trellises for peas.

Now the peas have popped out of the ground and established themselves we are making them trellises.

We make them trellises to climb up as they grow and to make it easier for us to weed between them and then to harvest from them.

We make our trellises from odd and ends we find around our farm.

We have some old chook fencing (first photo) and some farm gates. Usually farm gates are expensive but when we first moved here the paddocks were divided into horse paddocks with these gates between them, so we have many to use for trellising.

Grow well peas!

Baby beetroot.

Good year for grapes!

Fallen tree.

This morning at 4.30 I woke to what I thought was the sound of fire crackers outside my bedroom window.

Bren, on the other hand, knew straight away that a tree had fallen down and was even pretty sure he knew exactly which tree it was. I think that's pretty impressive considering we have over 20 acres of bush.

Although no structures or fencing were damaged by the fallen tree, it did fall onto the flying fox which is annoying.

Farm gate sales.

For the past ten days this sign has been stuck to our front fence.

It has been there to inform the passers by of our intention to start selling from the farm gate and asks for objections. All the neighbouring land owners were also notified by mail.

Today we got a letter in the mail to inform us that our permit has been approved. Yay!

Lucky we got the approval because the Daylesford GetawaysWelcome Guide came out today with our new ad in it.

We will be open from January to July 2010

Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday 11am - 5pm

Come and see us for award winning, certified organic, fruit, vegetables and eggs.

See where your produce comes from, talk to us, the farmers and if you tell us you read this blog you will receive a free gift.