Life and Wildlife on the Banks of the Murrumbidgee
I love work. I can watch it all day. For several days this year I've had an extra farm assistant in the form of backpacker Emil, who's been doing things that I've managed to avoid for months, but know are necessary. He meticulously painted the trailer, which got left in the paddock last year becoming... Continue Reading →
Farming, like nature, is messy. It's nice to see the smooth green grass of spring covering the hills and disguising the rocks. The modern golf course look. Unfortunately, that's not necessarily what you need either for wildlife or for grazing stock. Sheep love to have a variety of things to eat, including clovers, grasses,... Continue Reading →
For the third time in three years, many of our trees are looking like ghosts of their former selves. The immediate, obvious, culprit is the Christmas Beetle (an anoplagnathus species of scarab), a bit of seasonal joy in a shiny suit. If the weather's right, it digs its way up from underground in November or December,... Continue Reading →
