Aracaria Work Diary

Stefan, Tewe
Hot, 28, Moon 15% of full, waxing crescent.
Storms overnight. Short bursts of heavy rain at night. The day: dry
Big clean-up around farmhouse.
Start on lemon myrtle hill slashing.

Stefan/Tewe
Warm-hot, 26; Moon: 16% full, waning crescent

Olive hill, slashed and toro, drive area. Olives mostly looking good, two losses, two may go.

Stefan, Tewee
Hot, dry, 27. Moon 62% full, waning gibbous

Toro: golden gift pecans, lemon myrtles, figtree paddock (upper lower)
Mulch harvest: Middle paddock, figtree paddock, tea shed area (15 cages)

Stefan, Tewe
Toro: west, top area, Yankee Creek area, tea shed, middle paddock. Lots of mulch.
East: lower slope.
Brush-cut: Golden gift, started
Mulch collection: east, lower slope, west, top area
Tractor tip.

Linda/Stefan/Tewe/Muzz
light rain, 24, Moon: 97%full
East: weeding and brush-cutting top area, and upper slope.

Linda/Stefan/Tewee
East: creek area, planted various rain forest trees. Two coolamon trees in main paddock, east.
Gatehouse garden mulching.

Linda/Stefan/Muzz/Tewee/Stefan(woofer)
Palm re-potting, brush-cut east, drive,
west, gully,
mulch collection.
Jarman & Simbanandi fight.
Harvester in repair.

Stefan/Linda/Tewee/Stefan(woofer)
Warm to hot, 26, dry, Moon: waxing crescent, 18% of full (bl)
Toro: east top area, lower slow.
Brush cut: west, top gully.
Harvest: garlic
gatehouse: planting front garden
Various tree mulching and raking

Linda/Stefan/Tewee/Muzz/woofers: Stefan (Germany), Dorian (US)
Overcast, overnight rain, 22, Moon new.
West: re-built the rock garden near 5 star woofer shed.
Lemon grass harvest,
Brush cut: western gully, plant-out top area, eastern fence line.
Various maintenance.

Linda/Stefan/Tewee/woofers: Stefan (Germany), Dorian (US)
Little overcast, few drops of rain, 22. Moon: 5% of Full, waning crescent
OKD
West: new garden wedding, cleaning up after weekend storm, mulching trees.
East: mulching trees along Yankee Creek passage. Mulch collecting. 5 cages, lower paddock, 2 top area.

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Linda/Stefan/Tewee/Muzz/woofers: Elena, Stefan (Germany), Dorian (US)
Overnight heavy rain, sunny, warm, 24
MedDay, Moon 44% full
East: slashing main paddock, tree mulching
West: shed preparation, re-potting, various maintenance, tip run

Linda/Stefan/Tewee/ woofers: Elena, Stefan (Germany), Dorian (US)
Rain since Sunday night, approx 50mm so far.
WD - Moon 68% full
More palms re-potted.
Wash basin connected in composting t.
Various maintenance, terrace weeding.
Toro & brush-cut tea house area, lower pecans, east entrance.
Some medium heavy rain. Enormous growth.

Linda/Stefan/woofers: Elena, Stefan (Germany), Dorian (US)
VND, Rain periods, (30+mm overnight), warm, 22, Moon: full
Big Tea House clean up, all day
First lotus flowers out.

Linda/Stefan/Tewe/Muzz woofers: Elena, Stefan, Dorian (US)
OKD
Little overcast, warm, few drops of rain, 22. Moon nearly full
West: re-potted 300 grass trees, fireweed walk, tree mulching, brush cutting west, top area, toro, top area
East: fire weed walk, tree mulching, toro: top paddocks.

Linda/stefan/Tewe/Muzz/Elana/Stefan(woofer)
Very warm, 26, dry, some rain overnight.
Moon: First Quarter, 52% pull. Moon - Saturn opposition (500 day)
West: Big Sofie garden clean-up, Yankee Creek gully all trees mulched. Brush-cut netted area and above, lotus dam. drive all the way down to Old Garden. Shade house work.
East: clearing aquatic weeds off eastern dam, mulching eastern bank trees. Re-planting 2 mandarins into western citrus garden.
500 - gardens, western paddocks.

Stefan/Linda/Tewee/Isha
Warm, slighty overcast, little rain late afternoon, Moon: 33% full, waxing crescent
Big brush cutting session Yankee Creek Gully, fig, fence line, pecans etc.
Toro: main paddock, Yankee Creek pecans
Started clean-up Sofie Garden
Re-potted tuberoses
Farm starting to look energetic.

Linda/Stefan/Tewee, Muzz, Elena, Stefan(from Germay),
Very warm, sunny, 25, Moon: New Moon, 3% full
VGD
Clean-up preparation around Tea House. Weeding brush-cutting etc.
Old garden weeding and maintenance.
Toro golden gift, and Yankee Creek area
5 cages of mulch collected on east.

Linda/Stefan/Elena, Stefan(from Germay), Isha
warm, sunny, 24, Moon: New Moon, 0% full
VGD
West: Rose tea tree plantation weeding. All trees look good. No losses. Cages for 8 kauries that have been chewed by wallabies.
East: Raking of mulch in gully and astern dam. Mulching lamantra grasses around eastern dam, weeding of new slope plant-out.

Warm, sunny, 22
Linda/Stefan/Tewee/Elena/Stefan (woofer from Germany)
Moon: waning crescent, 30% full
VND
West: new water pipe to composting toilet, olives staked, old garden weeding , turmeric harvest (last for season)
East: toro slope, continue planting slope terraces
Gatehouse: rock wall start

Warm, sunny, 25, dry, maybe a late storm
Moon: Third Quarter, 51% full
Linda/Stefan/Tewee/ Stefan (woofer), Elena
Big clean-up around shade house & storage shed, all day
Fixing up washed out sections of top drive.
Three truck loads of rocks to gatehouse.

Linda/Stefan/Tewee/Muzz/Elena
GD
warm, overcast, little rain (25mm overnight) Moon: Waning gibbous, 97% full
East: mulching gully plant-out, eastern bank. All trees (2 years old) doing well. Very few losses.
Started clearing area above eastern drive. Planted 4 strategic natives.
Mulching plant-out along w/e fence line. All doing well.
Gatehouse: grevillia & native plant-out, approx 40 plants
West: garden maintenance, continue Yankee Creek fence line hedge. Not finished.

Linda/Stefan.Tewee/Elena, Isha
H,GD
Warm, sunny, 24, Moon 100% Full
East: cleared areas on both sides of lantana etc. Planted two Wollemi Pines on each side of the drive. De-rocked and made toro safe. Big job.
Planted about 20 Paw Paw (from own seeds) on middle section of slop plant-out.

Warm, little overcast, no rain, 22
Moon: waxing gibbous 69% full
NVG - Stefan/Linda/Tewee/Muzz/Helena
West: olive hill brush cut, passion fruit along farmhouse/olive hill mulched & watered
Big clean out tool shed & upper shed
Mulch collection: 4 cages west, 4 cages east in top area

Warm, sunny, dry, 22
Moon: first quarter, 50% full
East: slashing top area
West: slashing main paddock, olive hill, farm house garden, pruning, clean-up, mango area, middle dam

Linda/Stefan/Muzz/Tewee/Elena
Warm, little overcast, 22, Moon 9% full, waxing crescent
Gatehouse bore & tank connection most of the day.
West: pruning of hedges, top area, brush cutting top gully.
Various replacement plantings.
Cow shit run.

Linda/Stefan/Tewee/Elena/Aisha
Warm, sunny, little overcast, no rain, 24
GD
East: finished off gully plantation, mulch, watering. All plants are looking good. Fire weed & thistle walk.
West: toro Yankee Creek area, finished off fence plant-out
Yam harvest

Stefan/Linda/Twee/Muzz/Elena
East; finished mulching all the plants on eastern gully slope (major sweat hill). All look very nice with plenty of flushes. Especially the two sausage trees are doing well.
West: planted grevillias along Yankee Creek fence line to replace dead casuarina trees. Also dragon fruit all along fence. Big day. VG.

Stefan, Linda, Tewee, Elana
Warm, sunny, 23, GD
Moon: waning crescent, 35% full
West: re-planted dragon fruit from gatehouse along fence line, top area, cut lemongrass along terraces, cleaned up prunings from bottle brush fence line.
Toro: west: top area, east: top area, lower slope. Collected four mulch cages.

Warm, 21
Linda/Muzz/Tewee/Elena
Groundsel control on est.
Nursery trip for new trees.
Dump run, cow shit run
East: planting top area, continue lamandra grasses plant on eastern dam.
Pruning fence line between east / west

Warm, sunny, dry, possibly a storm later at night. 24
Moon: waning, gibbous, 99% full
Linda/Stefan/Tewee/Elana/Isha
Various maintenance jobs. Welded harvester, replaces fork handles, etc, cleared up getting fields ready for toro.
Lifter our own 500 (approx 120 horns)

Warm, little overcast, Moon 99% full
Horn lifting.
With the help of many visitors we lifted about 500 horns. The forth time the pit has been used. This time there were very few earth worms (in contrast to last year) but an enormous amount of white roots. We suspect that these roots came from the pumpkins growing on top of the pit. But we are not sure. Half of the 500 was lost this way. However, the other half is of very good quality.
Also stirred with flow-form and two coppers. 500 on most of the farm, all gardens, gatehouse garden, east slope and plantations, top areas both east & west.
Also lifted Yarrow. Again an unusual number of roots permeating through the preparations. Apart from that, quality seem pretty good.

Stefan/Linda/Tewee/Muzz/Hiroko/Elena
warm, sunny, dry, 22 - Moon waxing gibbous, 82% full
West: various cleaning, brush cutting, preparing for Sundays horn lifting day, cleaning processing shed, cut dowon all the dead causerina trees, tea preparing, some work on the terraces
East: panting and finishing plan-out eastern gully, upper section, fireweed & thistle control

Stefan/Linda/Tewee/Hiroko/Elena/Isha
Warm, sunny, spring, Moon:waxing gibbous. 67% full
VGD
West: weeded, toroed Yankee creek area, pecans, citrus, maccas up to rose tee trees. Re-positioned palms around YK water tank.
Weeded around tea house.
Various weeding, mulching in gardens.
Pruning of pecans, tree-pasting
Various maintenance jobs
East: planted rest of irises, plastic protectors on slop plant-out

Stefan/Linda/Tewee/Muzz/Hiroko/Elena (woofer from France)
overcast, rain, 29
East: Dug out many camphors upper eastern gully. Much regrowth. Nearly ready for planting.
Planted approx 30 grevillias along eastern fence line.
Cow shit run.
Fireweed collection. More planting eastern top area.
Knocked off earlier because of rain.

Linda/Tewee/Stefan/Aisha
Warm, little overcast, no rain, 21, GD
East: continued planting of eastern gully, approx 100 plants, all natives, many grevillias in middle section of upper slope
West: cut dead causerina trees along entrance, first section, many more to go
Big effort.

Linda/stefan/Tewee/Muzz/Hiroko
Overcast, little rain, 20
Moon 8% full. VGD
Continued plant-out eastern gully. Lower section rain forest (morning)
Afternoon: started second layer, slope section, irises along new drive, grevillias & natives densely in middle section.
Very steep, many rocks, hard work. Altogether approx 160 plants.

Linda/Stefan/Tewee/Hiroko/Urika/Aisha
warm, 20, Moon 24% full, waning crescent

Finished planting lamantra grass around eastern dam. 120 plants or more.
Continued with rain forest re-veg upper gully, east.
Very big day. VGD

Linda/Stefan/Tewee/Muzz/Hiroko/Urika
Overcast, warm, 20, VGD, Moon: 78% full, waning gibbous
East: major burn-off upper gully. Difficult fire, had to shift the piles several times to make sure no trees got burned. Hundreds of young camphors coming up. Next week to deal with. Continued plan-out in lower gully.
Gatehouse: Coe with backhoe leveling and shifting some trees. Finger-lime and pomegrante to east, near sausage trees. 8 bamboo along far southern fence line.
Very big working day. Everybody happy.

Linda/Stefan/Tewee/Muzz/Hiroko/Urika/Aisha (old garden)
cool, windy, 19, VGD
Moon 93%full, waning gibbous
East: sorted, cut big camphor pile into several smaller piles ready for burning.
Continued gully plant-out, first trees planted on top section. Planted approx, 80 trees during afternoon, big effort.

Linda/Stefan/Tewee/Urika/Hiroko
Cold night, warm, dry day, 20 GD
West: slashing Golden Gift pecans, repair water leak in main pipe (still not fully resolved), fireweed walk, muclh collection (2 cages), bamboo (golden empress) along southern fence line (12 plants)
Gatehouse: chipper
East: toro top area, planting melaleucas along drive
Late afternoon 500:
East, all the re-gen area
West: gardens, netted area

Linda/Stefan/Tewee/Hiroki & Eureka, woofers (Japan)
warm, sunny, 21 GD
West: finally found water leak in main pipe, directly under meditation platform. Fixed. Fireweed walks, old garden weeding.
East: continue planting eastern gully
Gatehouse: bamboo trestle for dragon fruit, rock wall started, tip run

Linda, Stefan, Tewee, Muzz, Hiroko
Warm, sunny, dry, 21
VGD
Very productive day. Cleared camphor trees at the gatehouse.
Collected mulch east, top area (4.5 cages).
Toro: west fig paddock.
East: planting, rain forest treed up the gully.

Linda/Stefan/Tewee/Hiroko
Big clean-up at upper part of eastern gully. Burned all the old camphor logs, de-rocked the area so that it is now toro friendly. Very big working day.
Hiroko continued planting lilies along eastern drive (upper section).
NASAA inspection. All ok.

Linda, Stefan, Tewee, Muzz, Uishi, Hioko (woofers from Japan)
Warm, sunny, dry, 20, VVGD

Monster day clearing the eastern gully hill, as yet unnamed. Pulled out all the old camphor logs, dug out all the remaining whiskey grass etc, etc. Incredible amount of work for so few people. This whole hill side is now ready for planting.

Linda, Stefan, Tewee, Uishi, Hioko (woofers from Japan), Aisha
Sunny, cold, windy - 18 - ND

East: clearing hill, digging out whiskey grass, crofton & lantana. Very big job to get ready for re-forestation & planting.
Planted 3 coolamons & 6 kauries into upper eastern gully.
West: preparing lilies for transplant

Linda/Stefan/Sewee/Muzz/ Andy & Heroko, Japan
ND - warm, sunny, 22
Added gatehouse property to Aracaria.
Big clean-up in new gatehouse garden.

Linda/Stefan/Muzz/Tewe/woofer Andy (UK) & Hirimita (?) Japan
Moon 92% of Full, Waxing Gibbous, QAND
West: harvest & drie Lemon Myrtle & Lemon Scented Tee Tree
East: finished eastern creek road plantation, de-rocked manually upper part of main eastern paddock getting it ready for toro.
Coe continued on gully road which will be called Philosopher’s Walk (as in Kyoto PW).
Linda feels certain Jarman is in calf.
yesterday: experiment: molasses water on cutty grass near eastern look-out.

Stefan/Muzz/Tewee/Linda
FND - sunny, dry, 20 - Moon half full
East: finished weeding the eastern slope plantation, weeded, mulched mandarins, mangoes.
John Co in with backhoe, cleared camphors along creed drive. Condensed burn pile, cleared camphor stumps on main paddock, east.
started to de-rock upper main paddock, east. A lot of rocks, some nice.
Started native plant-out along creed drive.

Linda, Stefan, Muzz, Tewee, Mijuku
FGD - bit of rain in the morning, cleared in afternoon, 19
West: lotusdam plants, lilies, bird of paradise weeded & mulched. Netted area weeded. Ginger harvest from Netted Area. Lotus dam island weeded.
East: fireweed collection, big burn off, top area.

Stefan/Linda/Muzz/Mijuku, Anja
PND, warm, sunny 22
West: raking top area, shifting mulch across various areas, netted area, weeding strawberries,
major Sofie Garden clean up. Cow shit collection.

Linda, Muzz, Stefan, Mijuku, Aisha
GD, warm, sunny, 22
West: tea preparation, toro top area, took Ladu’s weening ring out, ginger harvest (small amount)
East: mulched plantation easter slope, brush-cut gully, cow shit collection, removed coral trees

Muzz/Linda/Mijuku,Stefan
Warm, sunny, 20
Clean up broken shed area, east top, tip run, more clearing eastern gully.
Tea preparation in processing shed.
Toro east, slope

Stefan/Tewe/Muzz/Linda/woofers Mijuku (Japan) and Kitty (Canada)
Warm, bit of sun, 21
West: planting 37 tallow wood trees, top area, gully. Bit weeding & cleanup around woofer shed. First CP collection from Gordon for 2009 compost heap. Woofers: fireweed walk & CP collection for worm farm

Stefan?Linda/Tewee/Muzz, Myjoku, woofer from Japan
Cool, little rain, overcast, 19
Last pecan harvest Yankee Creek Orchard. Compost bagging. Getting ready for new compost pile.
Continued clearing gully east.

Linda/Stefan/Tewee/Muzz/Kitty (woofer)
East: clearing eastern dam gully, brush cutting
West: pecan nut collection

Linda/Tewee/Muzz/Aisha
Visitor Marg Leunig/Stefan
Clearing along ea

Linda/stefan/Muzz/Tewee/Kitty (woofer)
warm, dry, 22
East: clearing along creek drive, eastern border, camphors, privet, lantana and some very sticky creeper that has sprung up everywhere. Planted coolaman near eastern creek gate.
West: clearing house drains, brush cut top area, gully along fence lines. Burn pile, fireweed collection and seed burn.

Linda/Tewee/Kitty/Stefan
Mild after very night rain
Fixed drives and drains, various planting, re-potting palms

Linda/Stefan/Muzz/Kitty (woofer)
Cool, rain, 19
West: nettle planting, dug out Golden Goddess bamboo ( very difficult0, devided up and planted on estern fence line (east)
Experimental grinding of Tea for Life and olive leaves.

Visit from a class of Shearwater School (local Steiner school) kids.
Thanks for coming.

Linda/stefan/Tewee/Muzz/Aisha
Warm, sunny, 22
West: prepared new nettle garden, Yankee Creek end. Planted 80 nettles. 80 more to come. Mulched persimmons, YC,
Cockspur clearing in YC gully
East: continued clearing lantana, camphor, privet along eastern creek border.

Stefan/Tewee/Muzz/Linda/Kitty (woofer)
warm, little rain late afternoon, 23
Clearing eastern fenceline of camphors, privet. Hundreds of small camphors. Creek area looking good.
Cow pat pit.
East: mulching drive trees. Lost some during rainy months.

Stefan/Tewee/Muzz/Linda/Aisha
East: clearing area below eastern dam of privet, camphors, lantana etc.
Mulch collection.
Old garden planting. Nut harvest.
Toro: mandarin orch

Linda/Tewee/Muzz/woofer Kitty
Mulching, fireweed.

Stefan/Linda/Muzz/Tewee/Aisha
Sunny, warm, dry, 22

West: pecan harvest, lower orchard
East: planted 5 avocados top area, near lookout. Composted, mulched the established avos. Lost 5 in the wet season.
Lychees doing well. Brush-cut drive plantations and started mulching.

Trying out distill.

Stefan/Tewee/Muzz/Linda
Warm, sunny, dry, 22
East: groundsel control southern slope, very little after last eradication. Major privet problem. It will take us months to dig out. Made a good start. Toroed: below eastern dam, very difficult area, only one tree survived, just. Also last bits on main grazing paddock.

West: finished mulching of rose tea tree plantation, started nettle bed re-organisation (processing shed area). Dug 500 pit for last 500 to be buried tomorrow.

Linda/Stefan/Muzz/Tewee, Aisha (old garden maintenance)
Sunny, warm, dry, 22
Citrus orchard composted, pruned and mulched.
Rose tea tree plantation mulching 1/2 finished.
hard prune back of trees.
First leaf harvest.

Linda (back), Stefan, Tewee, Muzz
West: pecan harvest, mulch collection (figtree paddock approx 8 cages).
East: mulching and weeding of tree line plant-out along east/west border, lower part. 5 losses.
BD: moon/saturn opposition, 500 (west) top area, lemon myrtle hill, terraces, gardens
East: mango, mandarin orchard, upper part of main paddock, gully plant-out

Stefan/Tewee/Muzz
Sunny, warm, dry, 24
Big brush cutting, mulch collecting and toro day on East and West.
We are nearly back to normal after the wet summer season.

Stefan/Tewee/Muzz
warm, sunny, dry, 24
West: pecan pick, weeding top area gully, most trees have gron vry well, very few losses, started big brush-cut of the gully.
Est: top ara toroed, mulch collection main paddock

Stefan/Tewee/Muzz
Sunny, dray, warm, 25
West: finished weeding rose tea tree plantation, hard work.
Brush-cut citrus garden, checked woofer water tanks (ok)
Toroed lower pecan orchard, ready for harvest.
East: mulch collection, slashing rest of main paddock, mandarin, mango plantation.

Stefan/Muzz
Sunny morning, rainy afternoon. 24
1st pecan harvest, just picked what had naturally fallen, 12kg
Started on re-doing nettle area below glass house
Weeded north section of Roe Tea Tree plantation. First weeding since November. Very hard work, weeds up to 2m. Almost all trees are doing well. Many have grown enormously, up to 1.5m. I think they like this spot. Couple of palms lost. Much slower growth.

Stefan/Linda/Aisha
East: slashed main paddock 1/2
West: planted garlic, passionfruit, slashed Golden Gift

Linda/Stefan
Overcast, 22
Buried about 100 horns with Tansey CP for Aracaria 500.

Linda/Stefan/Muzz
Rain, heavy at times, 22
East: weeding top area, brush cutting, planting replacement trees
West: re-potting, digging Aracaria 500 pit

Linda/Tewee/Stefan/Aisha
rain, sometimes heavy, cleared in afterjoon, 22
West: finished milking shed
East: grass trees planted
Picked up 400 rainforest trees for winter plant-out on East, southern upper gully.

Today we buried about 500 horns. May thanks to all the people who turned up and helped. Special thanks to Timotry and Sambod for their additional cow manure, Collin, Margaret, Darren, Muzz and Tewee, Kay, Richard, Vivian, Isabel, Mani and the many others whose names I can’t remember right now.
Linda’s excellent organization was crucial as usual. The rain held off just in time making the whole event a very nice experience. All horns were capped with clay and a deep trench dug to prevent tree roots from growing into the pit.
The first layer of horns was buried vertically. In the second layer the horns are horizontal. More pictures can be viewed on the farm diary blog for that day.
Also buried Yarrow preparation and lifted last year’s chamomile.

Linda/Stefan/Tewee/Muzz
Warm, sunny, 24, dry, some cloud
East: continue clearing and weed removal top area, mulched lookout bed
West: preparation for 500 burial (Sat), dug pit, toroed, brushcut various areas, dug yarrow pit. Big day.
Toroed, brushcut area behind middle dam, HP reserve

Linda/Stefan/Tewee/Aisha/Ivan
Warm, sunny, 24
East: raking, top area, finished weeding, mulching dam gully plant-out. Looking good.
Started mulching yakkas along drive, main eastern paddock.
West: prepared horn for 500 burial coming Sat.
Passion fruit plant out along Olive Hill southern fence (35 plants), compost CCP each, mulched.
Mulch collection best paddock (2 cages).
Old Garden mulching, weeding.

Linda/Stefan
Overcast, few drops of rain. 23
Garlic planting, behind shadehouse
Between ginger & yarrow.
Very thing top soil, very dry, lots of rocks.
We forked soil 12″ down, re,oved lots of rocks, planted 3rd generation garlic cloves in CCP.
Watered well, covered with mulch and watered again.
Nearby ginger looking good.

Stefan/Tewee/Linda
Morning: big thunderstorm, rain. 22
Afternoon: raking mulch middle paddock, lemon myrtle hill
Weeded, mulched all trees up from middle dam.
Composted, mulched fruit trees in this area.

Stefan/Tewee/Linda/Aisha
War, sunny, dry. 24
Weeded and mulched eastern gully.
Most trees doing well. Very few losses.
Already dry again after two months of rain.
Plenty of mulch from slope.
Also southern side of slope plant-out weeded and mulched.
Very few losses.
Some work in Old garden.

Linda/Stefan/Muzz/Tewee
Toro, brushcut Lemon Myrtle Hill - first time dry enough for months. Extremely thick grass, difficult.
Toro: olive hill, best paddock.
Lime harvest.
Mulched and composted asparagus terrace - finished.

Linda/Stefan/Muzz/Tewee/Aisha/
Mulch collecting and transproting to terraces and old garden.
Brush cutting east, netted area,
Toro: around netted area, 500 pit, western border (very thick grass, difficult)
Harvest: pumkins
Tewee finsihed milking shed
Asparagus beds composted and mulched.

Thanks to everybody who turned up for Hubert’s Memorial Gathering. We enjoyed a 15 minute silent meditation, broke up the ceramic head as to Hubert’s instructions and then planted trees around the look-out. The rain held back and we all enjoyed remembering our friend Hubert. Afterwards we had tea and cake at the Processing Shed.

Stefan/Tewee/Muzz/Linda/Matthias
Warm, sunny, 28
Mulch raking: west, top area, weeding and mulching trees.
East: mulch collection, 13 cages
Composting asparagus terrace
Preparing Hubert Lookout for Monday’s memorial gathering.

Stefan/Linda/Tewee/Muzz/Aisha/woofer Helen and Matthias
Warm, little overcast, no rain.
East: clearing top area, toro: upper main paddock, brush-cut lookout area
West: lemon grass harvest, gravel for milking shed, brush-cut various )lower top-area for first time since November last year), garden maintenance.

Stefan/Linda/Tewee/Muzz
East: weeding gully trees, brushcutting
Planting: lotus dam bangalow palms
BD 500: all gardens, pecans, rose tea tree, eastern grazing paddock (middle section), terraces, olive hill. All in all about 10 acres. Two coppers. Also included anti-rabbit pepper and some cow pat pit.

Linda/Stefan/Muzz/Tewee/Hartmut/Gertrud/Aisha
Warm, overcast, little rain
Weeding, slashing east, some mulch collecting

Linda/Stefan/Tewee/Muzz/Hartmut/Gertrud
Dry, bit of sun, 25
Toroed east, slope, mangoes, mandarins (2 losses)
Mulch collection figtree paddock, eastern large paddock (approx 12 cages)
Weeding terraces.
Brush cut eastern gully, Yankee Creek Gully

Linda/Stefan/tewee/Muzz/helen (woofer), Aisha
Rainy, overcast, 25
Clearing East, top section.
Toro & brushcut various areas.
Evening: Hugh Lovel lecture in processing shed. very good.

Stefan/Twee/Muzz
Linda back from NZ.
First sunny day for weeks.
Monster brush-cut and toro day. east and west.
No time to take photos.

Stefan/Tewee/Muzz/Aisha
Wet, rain, bits of sun. (Raining for 3 months)
Clearing East, top area.
Finished roof milking shed
Cleared pecan trunks.
Eastern dam brush cut (difficult)

Stefan/Tewee/Muzz
Rainy, 20
Shifted buffalo fly trap into new position, weeded lotus dam, built 3 meditation seats, various brush cutting.

Stefan/Tewee/Muzz/Aisha
Heavy rain all day…24
Raked olive hill, pruned suckers off trees. All look good. Some brush cutting.
Water logged.

Stefan
Golden Gift slashed. Olive Hill slashed. very hard wirk. Long and tough grass after long rain period.
Oil soak installed at milking shed.

Stefan/Tewee/Muzz
First sunny day for weeks. 25
Weeded ginger. yarrow behind shadehouse.
Slashed east, big paddock.
Prepared milking shed for tin.
Still too wet for mulch collection.

Have been away for 2 weeks but farm work has continued as usual. The long rain period is still persisting with 200mm on Saturday alone. The ground is very soggy, grass growth is enormous. We can’t slash nor collect mulch. It is mainly too wet.
Tewee, Stefan, Muzz, Linda, Aisha
Rain periods, overcast, no sun, 24
Repaired drives that got washed away. Some brush-cutting in preparation for sunny days. Trellises for yam in terraces. Last mango harvest.

Stefan/Muzz/Tewee/Linda/woofer Andre
Warm, rain easing. 27
Milking shed constrcution, aloe vera planting,
brush cutting. Toro cluch break down.
Still incredibly wet and muddy.

Stefan/Muzz/Tewee/Linda/woofer Andre
War, some heavy showers. This is the wettest season we have experienced. All areas of the farms are saturated now. Everything is dripping with water. Growth has been extreme. Some small trees have doubled in size. It is as though we had two seasons in one. Of course all the weeds are up as well. Most of our time is weeding and brush-cutting. Mango hrvst enormous but the lack of sun has an impact.
Andre has snared three rabbits that were eaten yesterday for lunch. There is a philosophical argument about this. Personally I am opposed but as the rabbits are increasing in numbers (three years ago there were none) we have to do something about it. We use peppers but it is not enough. So I can appreciate that eating the cought rabbits has got some merit.

Linda/Muzz/Tewee/Stefan/Andre/Mitch/Maya/Scott
Humid. warm, little rain
Alo vera plantation. Mango harvest (first)
Brushcut: Olive Hill, Golden Gift pecans,
weeded east drive, Yankee Creek gully. Very few losses.
All trees growing well. Almost all Bangalow palms are very healthy looking.
In two years this area will be brush cutter free.

Linda/Muzz/Tewee/Stefan/Andre/Mitch/Maya/Scott
Humid, warm to hot. Some rain.
This is after 660mm of rain since New Year
Groundsel control on East, south/ eastern slope.
Weeded mangoes, mandarins, east. Eastern gully palms and re-forestation. All looking good. Very few losses.
Started weeding and establishing the eastern lookout garden. Lost a couple of avocado trees because of the extreme wet, probably. Hard day.