It was an early start on Sunday, November 5, 2023, when we had to gather, with tractors ready, at 7am, for the Channel 7 Weekend Sunrise film crew to arrive to prepare us to be on national TV. The interest arose from the welcome news that our unique traning course, Tractoring For Women, had won […]
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Adelaide Hills & Fleurieu Farmcast – July 2023 Edition
Welcome to the Adelaide Hills & Fleurieu Farmcast – the monthly podcast where we let you know what we’ve been up to on our farm and on our clients’ farms to help inspire and guide you on what makes sense for you to be doing on your farm or lifestyle property. In this episode we […]
Adelaide Hills & Fleurieu Farmcast – June 2023 Edition
Welcome to the Adelaide Hills & Fleurieu Farmcast – the monthly podcast where we let you know what we’ve been up to on our farm and on our clients’ farms to help inspire and guide you on what makes sense for you to be doing on your farm or lifestyle property. In this episode we […]
Adelaide Hills & Fleurieu Farmcast – May 2023 Edition
Welcome to the Adelaide Hills & Fleurieu Farmcast – the monthly podcast where we let you know what we’ve been up to on our farm and on our clients’ farms to help inspire and guide you on what makes sense for you to be doing on your farm or lifestyle property. In this episode we […]
Practical Farm Safety With Alex Thomas – Hands-on Real World Insights At Our Farm Demo Days
Practical farm safety is a speciality of Alex Thomas, the sought-after trainer and speaker behind campaigns like #plantaseedforsafety and #savealifelistentoyourwife. We’re thrilled Alex will be taking part through our Tractoring For Women workshop and two Farm Fencing Demo Days, mingling with participants and diving into conversations about how to make farm safety a reality. Alex […]
Adelaide Hills & Fleurieu Farmcast – April 2023 Edition
Welcome to the Adelaide Hills & Fleurieu Farmcast – the monthly podcast where we let you know what we’ve been up to on our farm and on our clients’ farms to help inspire and guide you on what makes sense for you to be doing on your farm or lifestyle property. In this episode we […]
Adelaide Hills Farmcast – March 2023 Edition
Welcome to the Adelaide Hills and Fleurieu Farmcast – the monthly podcast where we let you know what we’ve been up to on farm and what makes sense for you to be doing on your farm or lifestyle property. Over the past 12 months we’ve run through an almanac of farm management tasks to do […]
Adelaide Hills Farmcast – January Edition
This month, our Adelaide Hills Farmcast is a joint recording with Steve Davis from The Adelaide Show Podcast. We still cover our monthly almanac of things to focus on during the upcoming 4-6 weeks on your property but Steve also gets us to reflect on what it’s like to be farmers for his city-based audience. […]
5 Summer Farming Activities Property Owners And Small Acreage Farmers Need To Action
For the January edition of the Adelaide Hills Farmcast, we structured our usual almanac of farming activities into five topics that become increasingly important over summer. They are: Water security Bushfire risk Summer weed spraying Home garden and house paddock Getting someone to watch your property Here are the notes we used for recording our […]
Making Biochar In The Adelaide Hills
For the October edition of the Adelaide Hills Farmcast, Belle returned to the Littlewood Agapanthus Farm, where the Maccy Biochar group was making biochar in the Adelaide Hills. What is biochar? Biochar is a form of charcoal and is good for the soil, good as an animal feed supplement, has numerous industrial uses and combats […]