Feeding the chooks and collecting eggs first thing in the morning.
We recently had a photography student named Matt on our property who had chosen us as his project for an assignment at Uni. Matt needed to portray “A day in the life of…” with 15 photos. He ended up following Tom around the property for 2 days and shot lots of photos in the process (he also did our new head shots, thanks Matt!) I do not know how he would have been able to just find 15 photos, I am having trouble myself minimising the amount of photos I would like to put up here… Anyway, here is the gallery of photos, which tells the story, with captions under each photo. Click on a photo to display in large size and scroll through.
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- The cows getting fed in the morning, after Tom has collected their manure (see wheel barrow on right)
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- Tom milks the goat whilst she is eating breakfast
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- The list of chickens and what they get fed in the feed shed.
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- Then the geese get fed
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- Onto feeding the chooks
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- And collecting the eggs
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- Watering the seedlings in the poly tunnel
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- After breakfast the cows get taken out into the paddock
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- And mummy goat gets reunited with her kids
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- Making the dog food
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- This speaks for itself…
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- Tom emptying and washing out the scrap bins
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- A faulty tap to fix
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- Attaching the fixed tap
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- Finishing off
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- Getting mulch from the nature strip cut the day before
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- Loading up the trailer
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- Wwoofer Andrew unloads the trailer with mulch into the mulch bins in the garden
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- Tom tidying up the garden
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- And giving weeds and greens to the garden chooks
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- More greens picked to make space for seedlings
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- Potting seeds and looking after seedlings in the polytunnel, and getting some seedlings for planting
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- Seedlings and buckets for soil taken to the garden
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- Planting bean seedlings
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- A big potato harvest
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- Prompted the need for a root cellar
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- An old fridge converted…
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- Wwoofer Lucia sorting the potatoes in the root cellar
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- Instructing the wwoofers on jobs to do
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- Showing the planting of seedlings
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- More planting
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- Checking the worm farm and getting the worm juice to water in seedlings
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- Electric fence required for the cows for the next day
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- Showing Noosa Permaculture group seed savers the large numbers of seeds available
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- Herb Robert seeds
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- Conducting a 1 1/2 hour farm tour
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- In the mean time the Urban Permaculture course is conducted on site by Anne Gibson
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- Society garlic broken up for planting out
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- Sifting the compost for adding to the seedlings
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- A nice box full
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- Water needed pumping up, to empty the water catching tanks some more and filling up the top tank for gravity feeding down.
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- The garden needed watering (gravity fed down from a dam water tank)
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- More compost required
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- Checking the large compost
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- Spreading out compost to create another garden bed
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- Close to the end of the day, forage is required for the animals
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- Marigold enjoys some arrowroot
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- She needs that bit extra, feeding herself plus the twins…
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- The chooks love the arrowroot too
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- And the other goats!
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- Time to make up food for the animals
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- First mummy goat, then the other goats further up the hill
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- Come on, let’s have a cuddle!
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- Calling the cows, they come running to the gate
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- Toffee wants a cuddle with Tom too!
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- De-ticking whilst giving them a rub and tying them up before being led to the yard
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- Leading the bull first
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- And tied up in the yard for feeding time
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- Another cuddle
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- And a rub
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- And the two cows are led to the yard
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- There they are all tied up
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- And fed, with chooks pinching some too! After feeding the cows are untied and can roam in the yard overnight, so their manure can be harvested the next day!
What a beautiful representation! Great photos! And an interesting lifestyle.
Thanks Maria! These photos were taken on a day when Tom was not teaching in the classroom, and there were no projects being done at the time. The lifestyle is wonderful, keeping things simple is very enjoyable, and the connection with the land, the animals and the food you eat is extremely fulfilling!
Awesome photo’s… see you this weekend (it’s massage week at High Spirits for me!) xx