Sharing what I've learned

Amaphupho - Garden, Forest & Paddock to Plate

This farm is an educational experience in where food comes from, how it grows and what it really tastes like. If you like you can learn how to do it all yourself. I was a 'city slicker' who went on an adventure to produce my own food and in the process became self-sufficient farmer. For all ages, this is a fully integrated working farm with animals, vegetables, orchard and bush tucker. Visitors welcome but by appointment only.

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November 05, 2017

I've started a YouTube Channel to share what I've learned while building my small farm and becoming self sufficient.

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Apple Watch and Farming.

February 08, 2022

First my circumstances; I'm retired, knocking on the door of 60 years old. I live alone on my small farm which I purchased for my retirement to keep active and health. My initial purchase of the watch was encouraged by my daughter concerned about what would happen if I had a bad accident, who would know? I'm sometimes up a tree with a chainsaw, sometime on a mower on steep slopes, my farm has its share of deadly snakes - you get the picture. Security This gets a big tick from me. The Apple Watch has 'Fall Detection' built in and a simple internet search shows it has saved lives. The concept is that if you fall down it detects your fall, activates the watch with vibrates on your wrist and asks if your ok. If there is no response within about a minute the phone rings emergency services and your emergency contacts. Now I've set mine off at least a dozen times in the last year so I know it works and each time i've been able to answer the question "Are you o...

Flowers

November 24, 2020

“Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the mind.” ― Luther Burbank I have often wondered myself why I grow some flowers. For me, the animals on my farm are company, all with their own personalities and moods. The vegetables, fruit, nuts, berries and bush tucker are sustenance and survival and are a source of great pride tp produce. Interspersed as you walk the farm, are flowers. The linking elements between paddocks, orchards and vegetables keeping the conversation flowing and creating another treat at every turn. I wonder why I grew them and continue to plant more. Are they just my little luxury to look at and photograph? Could it be the flowers are to stroke my ego as people enquire about their beauty and I tell a story of where it came from and how hard was to grow? No, I think not. I prefer the thoughts of Audrey Hepburn; “To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.” I plant flowers as...

Bath Tub for Water Troughs

December 16, 2017

I don't know if this happens else where around the world but an old bath tub makes a good size water trough and you can usually pick them up from renovators for free. Unfortunately they are often just tossed in the paddock and the water is attached through a hole drilled in the wall of the bath. That's what happened on my farm and a few years on now the bottoms are rusting out of the tubs and the constant leaks are becoming a concern. I like to to things a little different. A mate of mine who renovates old houses had a bath he didn't want so I used it to replace the worst one I have. I put some plumbing in so it could always be drained and cleaned then poured a slab of 2 barrow loads of concrete over top. I then built a frame around the bath like you would when installing it in a house. A bit of 3 ply wood as the cover on the sides and a few layers of paint I now have a great looking water trough -- very swish indeed.