Picnic in the Paddock Runnymede Cattle Tour
I thought I’d do a bit of a recap of how Runnymede Farm’s cattle grazing system is different to a conventional grazing system, and how...
Oats, Healthy Soil and Petrichor
Good sniff, according to Maggie the Border Collie as she caught a whiff of the root ball! Have you ever dug up a shovel full...
The Grass is Greener in Manypeaks
Kent and Michelle Rochester farm at Manypeaks, where they are bringing up their boys Thomas and Kobi on their beautiful property surrounded by trees, cows...
Introducing.. The Wandering Bee!
The first batch of honey is here, a beautiful rich wandoo honey. It almost looks like the dark patches of bark from the wandoo tree...
Goodies Farm Visit - So Good!
This week, two thirds of Wide Open Agriculture’s Impact Team (Craig and I!) hit the road to visit Dale and Penny Goodwin of Goodies farm,...
Integrating Animals Into Your Veggie Patch
So now for the fun part - how to integrate animals into your veggie patch! So why would you want to do this in the...
Peel Harvey Soil Health Champion for 2022
A huge congratulations to Blythe and Gregg of Runnymede Farm for taking out the Soil Health Champion prize for the Peel Harvey region at this...
Happy as a Pig on Pasture
We have a farm update from our pasture-raised pig farmers, Bryan and Rae Hickman down at Yanmah, near Manjimup. Bryan and Rae run a breeding...
Blackwood Valley Beef Fodder Crop
Warren from Blackwood Valley Beef sowed this multi species fodder crop in February last year. Thanks to some great early rains and consistent follow up...
Multi species grazing at Rosa's Ridge
Steph and Sam of Rosa’s Ridge Pastured Chicken have a few different animals in their grazing and foraging mix. They currently have chickens, goats and...
Tree Planting Project Update
Tree planting has been in full swing this week at Warren Pensini's farm as part of the landscape rehydration and carbon tree planting project. The...
It's dinnertime at Southampton Homestead!
Jeff from Southampton Homestead moves his chickens daily onto fresh pasture, and gives them their daily feed ration that they need, in addition to the...
