Chilli Sauce

Time to bottle sauce.

Praying mantis

I was hunting for ripe Cape gooseberries. The mantis for bugs amongst the leaves.

Artichoke flowers

Sunshine on a rainy day.

Crunchy apples

The apples are the latest in our fruit harvest along with beautiful fat purple grapes and the last of the peaches (lovely jucy golden queens). It is so satisfying after four years of TLC.

Cosmos

This year I have grown pink cosmos. They are a beautiful companion providing light shade, insect fodder and a beautiful contrast to the lush green growth.

Popping sorgum

This is the first year I have grown this sorgum. They are around 2m tall with around 4 slender tillers per plant. The seed heads are just starting to show themselves.

Piglets

These guys are such a time waster. They clean up our understories or move through the paddocks with the sheep.

Waiting

This year we had over 170 children attend our two seaweek mornings.

We made over 60 handlines, dug, splashed, build, poured, talked and even managed to catch crabs, flounder, mullet, sprats, starfish and a seahorse.

Pesto

Silverbeet, chives, parsley, tomatelloes, basil, sorrel and all next to the Lemon tree............Hey Presto!!

Essential ingredients for sumer pesto grown close to the house.