What's on Conte

August is all about harvesting the surplus plants from Joy's Farm, mainly deciduous fruit, nut and berries and getting them planted at Forest on Conte Homestead or into our new plant nursery for farm establishment. When the time and mood allows these trees will form the backbone of the contour agroforestry belts every 30-60m on the farm or be released to other projects and farms.

Homesteading Skill Share

In an effort to use all the farm has in surplus, reduce costs and create an income, experimental everything is underway. Homesteading on Conte 101 will be shared for your amusement and occasional learning.

Animals

Currently on the farm are angus, jersy/dexter, shedding sheep, chickens and plenty of wildlife (roos, ducks, parrots, etc)

Plants

This will be a long road (its all grass and dying fruit trees now) but given our many friends and mums fecund garden we will be gardening and foresting like mad.

Food

We all gotta eat but growing, processing and cooking what you have on hand is another thing altogether.

Farm

There is going to be a lot of farmy stuff, regenerative agriculture, permaculture, fencing, Holistic management. Yep, I am excited.