We live on 4 acres (about 1.5 hectares) with our big friendly dog Elvis, our rescue tabby cat, a large vegetable garden, many different fruit trees, and livestock for meat and eggs (cattle, sheep, pigs, chickens). Ad works in IT from home and is pretty busy with that, so you will mainly be assisting Tinker with the farm work
Tinker was a WWOOFer back in 1997 and loved it. When we got our farm in 2007 we knew it was something we wanted to do again. We loved travelling for years, and as farm life makes this difficult, having WWOOFers from all corners of Australia and the world brings the travelling to us. We enjoy the cultural exchange as much as we enjoy the help on the farm
Organic/Biological methods we use
Our vegetables and fruit trees are grown organically. As far as possible, we raise our animals organically, however, if medical intervention will alleviate an animal’s suffering but not be organic, we choose the treatment.
We make fertiliser, mulch, various forms of compost, and have a worm farm.
We have solar panels for our electricity. We always have room for improvement but we do right by the planet as best we can
Some of the things we do that we can show you:
* February-May we preserve fruit and veg from the garden (apples, stone fruit, tomatoes, etc) however there are different things being preserved through the whole year
* in March we bottle about 40kg of tomatoes as passata
* in June each year we make salami, prosciutto, copacollo and other sausages from one of our pigs. It is a weekend of intense work, and we usually look for 2-4 people here to help. It’s been popular, so we are choosy (due to the high stress of the weekend)
* around July-August we usually get 2 new piglets
* Tinker can teach you to knit if you’re interested
The Stay
2 WWOOFers
1-2 weeks2-4 weeksWhatever suits
In Our HomeSeparate Building
No Smoking InsideNo Children
The Stay
Eat togetherShare cooking
Mixed mealssome meatsome vegetarianBYO Special diet foods please
