Category: Adelaide Hills Farm Services

Why Farm Fencing Skills Are Essential When You Own A Farm

Why Farm Fencing Skills Are Essential When You Own A Farm Why farm fencing skills are essential when you own a farm. Learning to install a fence at our first Farm Fencing Day with Tim Thompson in May 2023.

Why farm fencing skills are essential when you own a farm Hobby farming or owning a lifestyle property has become increasingly popular in the Adelaide Hills and Fleurieu regions of South Australia. With more and more individuals embracing the joys of sustainable living, self-sufficiency, and the connection to the land. However, while gardening and raising […]

Practical Farm Safety With Alex Thomas – Hands-on Real World Insights At Our Farm Demo Days

Practical Farm Safety With Alex Thomas – Hands-on Real World Insights At Our Farm Demo Days 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 […]

5 Summer Farming Activities Property Owners And Small Acreage Farmers Need To Action

5 Summer Farming Activities Property Owners And Small Acreage Farmers Need To Action January 2023 Adelaide Hills Farmcast

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

Making Biochar In The Adelaide Hills John Koumi, Maccy Biochar, Belle Baker. Farming advice and planning with Adelaide Hills Farm Services

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 […]

Things To Consider Before Moving To An Adelaide Hills Lifestyle Farm – Belle And Pods On Adelaide’s FIVEaa With Richard Pascoe

Things To Consider Before Moving To An Adelaide Hills Lifestyle Farm – Belle And Pods On Adelaide’s FIVEaa With Richard Pascoe Before moving to an Adelaide Hills lifestyle farm, listen to Belle and Pods on FIVEaa with Richard Pascoe

The Adelaide Techguy, Richard Pascoe, does a dynamic show on Adelaide’s FIVEaa and in his mix of interviews he asked us to discuss things to consider before moving to an Adelaide Hills lifestyle farm. You can hear the interview, in full, below, but the main talking points we planned for the segment were as follows. […]

Woodshield Posts – A real alternative in the Adelaide Hills

Woodshield Posts – A real alternative in the Adelaide Hills Pods talks Woodshield Posts

At Adelaide Hills Farm Services, we’re big advocates for WoodShield posts. They are organically certified and fully recyclable. They are a real alternative for #Horse owners as horses don’t chew them! The days of CCA and particularly Creosote posts are numbered and here at Adelaide Hills Farm Services we are working towards not using Creosote […]

Adelaide Hills Farmcast: August Edition

Adelaide Hills Farmcast: August Edition Cows in Winter for August Farmcast

In the Adelaide Hills Farmcast August Edition, Belle Baker looks at farming jobs Adelaide Hills lifestyle farmers should be planning for in the coming months. Also, remember that each episode has chapter markers, so when you’re playing, you can skip to the next section easily.  00:30 Adelaide Hills Farmcast August Edition Introduction 02:19 Adelaide […]

Adelaide Hills Farmcast: July Edition

Adelaide Hills Farmcast: July Edition Belle Baker and Alex Thomas

In the Adelaide Hills Farmcast July Edition, Belle Baker looks at farming jobs Adelaide Hills lifestyle farmers should be planning for in the coming months. We’ll cover weaning your lambs and calves and how to avoid grass Tetany. This episode was recorded with Alex Thomas from #plantaseedforsafety – a rural social change initiative that puts […]

HOW TO: Plant strawberries with Green Valley Strawberries

HOW TO: Plant strawberries with Green Valley Strawberries Learning to plant strawberries at Green Valley Strawberries

They say that every day is a school day and boy, did I get an education when I spent some time at Green Valley Strawberries with the Rozaklis family! They showed me how they plant their strawberries and then gave me a masterclass on how home-growers can plant and nurture their strawberries in their own […]

Post-emergent sprays; what you need to know with David Evans, Farmers Business Network

Post-emergent sprays; what you need to know with David Evans, Farmers Business Network Pods and David Evans from Farmers Business Network

Pods caught up with David Evans from Farmers Business Network recently to record an interview for our Farmcast. You can hear the full June Farmcast here or if post-emergent spraying is your focus for this month, you can watch Pods and David cover the key points in the interview below.

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