Permaculture and self-sufficiency in Harlin, QLD

 

Pekin Ducks... nine arrived the other day and we've all been keen to look after the new additions to the farm.

 

Nahlia in the salad garden... we pick our salad greens and herbs fresh every day.

The grapes growing over the outdoor table area...

'Donny', the beautiful Nubian billy goat.

Picking zucchinis in the vegetable garden.

Permaculture gardens, a food forest where chickens and ducks roam freely to graze every afternoon; milking goats; cheese-making; bread-making; pasta-making; collecting duck eggs; summer rain storms; washing our clothes in a twin-tub machine (almost handwashing); detergent making; shampoo and conditioner making; soap making; brewing alcohol; eating straight from the garden; working in the early morning and late afternoon, and resting in the middle of the day; a bathing tub for Nahlia everyday in the heat of the day; cutting back grass with a handsickle, laying thick newspapers over it and thick mulch on top; working on a geodesic dome house; day naps in a hammock; making charcoal; homemade pizza; and finally sleeping in a little!

We're really enjoying our new WWOOF host farm in Harlin.  It's the first place where I feel like we've been told off for working too much, or at least for wanting to work as much as we have elsewhere!  It's definitely the right place for us right now, as our pace of life has been rather hectic.  Now we have time to breathe deeply again, think deeply, and live deeply.