by Kelly Magor | Jan 15, 2014 | Forage and Feast
Potatoes are different to other crops in that there’s something wonderfully mysterious about growing them. With most other crops you can see your reward for your efforts throughout the season. You can see if the crop is a failure or a roaring success. Potatoes...
by Kelly Magor | Jan 8, 2014 | Forage and Feast
We’re a typical married couple. My husband likes tools and tractors. My husband particularly likes things that are completely over engineered for our requirements. I generally frown upon most of the equipment and vehicles he suggests we ‘need’. We...
by Kelly Magor | Dec 12, 2013 | Forage and Feast
On settlement day in July we arrived on the property to find six neglected sheep wandering around. There had been no mention of sheep included in the sale so we were shocked but assumed they were neighbours sheep acting as courteous lawnmowers. Over the weeks that...
by Kelly Magor | Nov 9, 2013 | Forage and Feast
I’ve been describing our property to a number of people and it’s hard to put into words the condition that it is in. When I tell people that out of the 155 acres approx 60 acres is covered in blackberries, their usual response is ‘Oh, you are going...
by Kelly Magor | Nov 2, 2013 | Forage and Feast
It’s easy to get overwhelmed by 155 acres of derelict land that’s full of wild olives, wild blackberries and thistle weed and we find ourselves quite frequently just looking around saying ‘where do we start’. It’s quite daunting. We are...