Batlow Organic Harvest | Agriculture
Batlow Organic Harvest
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25.01.2022 We've just delivered some punnets of our certified organic delicious figs (or if you're pretentious: figues délicieuses) to Ralph and Judy Wilson's WILGRO ORCHARD store, so if you're heading to Batlow this weekend, get some while you can. Ralph and Judy also have our certified organic garlic for sale, plus all their own goodies, including cider, a whole range of vinegars and amazing home-made ice cream. And apples, of course!! Well worth stopping off there. (...Pretentious?!? Moi?!?)
25.01.2022 If you your home base is closer to Tumut, Leanne King has our certified organic figs at her beautiful SIMPLY WHOLESOME shop in Capper Street.
25.01.2022 Preparing our next garlic planting. Today we slashed the green manure crop to help prepare the soil for next month's garlic. Basically a mix of legumes (to increase soil nitrogen) and millet (to build soil organic carbon) are first slashed and in a couple of weeks ploughed in. We'll show you pictures of each step of our process. Awesome tractor - Antonio Carraro imported from Italy. Beautiful tractor driver specially imported from Germany.
25.01.2022 Starting Monday 19th March, our organic "figues délicieuses" will be available at Tumut's newest business, SIMPLY WHOLESOME, in Capper Street. There is also a limited supply of our yummy organic cherry tomatoes. Visit Leanne at this great new venture in Tumut, if you're interested in healthy lifestyle and healthy food. Batlow Organic Harvest are proud to be supplying SIMPLY WHOLESOME.
25.01.2022 Our figs are nearing the end of the season. SIMPLY WHOLESOME in Tumut and WILGRO ORCHARDS near Batlow have the last of them.
25.01.2022 Our first Tahitian Limes of the season will be available from Friday 13th April at SIMPLY WHOLESOME, Tumut. A few more weeks and they will be joined by the new season Meyer Lemons.
25.01.2022 Shame you can't upload the taste. These figs are just gorgeous!!
25.01.2022 24 hours later we were able to get past the roadblock and venture back to see what was left of our home... We had to walk the last 4 kilometres past fallen trees and smouldering, eerily silent bush land.
22.01.2022 Help can come from out of the blue! After checking that my gun safe was secure, these gentlemen pulled out their nice blue leather police gloves and spent an hour helping me roll up barbed wire from a burnt fence. Wrecked their gloves but built a lot of good will. These guys also visited other properties and offered to do jobs, and brought food packs and water. Thanks, NSW Police! Then began four days of work with a team from BlazeAid. Awesome organisation doing lots of great work in our area.
18.01.2022 Paddy and Anna from BlazeAid meet our little kid Sammy. Sammy was named after our awesome neighbour Sam Webb who looked after our two milking goats during the fire. One was pregnant. We were delighted that they survived and then gave birth to this cute little girl-kid a week later. A timely symbol of re-birth and renewal after devastation.
18.01.2022 ...Meanwhile, Berlinde is back in the veggie garden. We must have our greens! ... And little Sammy is growing nicely, with her Mum Daphne and Aunt Daisy.
16.01.2022 It’s encouraging to see restoration come in the form of fresh green grass and strong new fences. But the sense of struggle and loss is never far away. I laid out some new poly pipe today from a dam, through a section of bush that was subject to particularly angry fire. Still not a shoot on a tree, barely a blade of grass 8 weeks later. This was where the lyre birds’ song echoed down the gully and in spring the scent of wattle mingled with eucalyptus, one of the most beautiful and mysterious parts of the property. I sigh and keep working. Six months till spring. Growth must come.
15.01.2022 7 weeks after that catastrophic weekend, the blackened landscape has had fresh rain and the grasses are softening the palette. But the trees, large and small, are constant reminders of the power of fire. It’s time to take out the lemon trees to make way for our new planting. Our daughter Esther and her friend Brooke help us over several days, with Little Red Carraro.
14.01.2022 Everywhere devastation - but miraculously our mud brick house had stood alone through the fire, with barely a scorch mark!! Walking through the door, smelling soot and seeing ash and embers inside, and yet - unmarked! - was like stepping into a dream.
09.01.2022 BlazeAid strike again, this time dismantling and replacing over a kilometre of boundary fence with our neighbour, Rob Ironside. We dips our lid again to this fantastic organisation and the wonderful men and women who volunteer to do hard yakka to help us get back on our feet and back in business!
08.01.2022 Our next garlic crop goes in! Three main varieties this season - white rocambole and two shades of Italian purple. One is a beautiful rich purple which didn't go on the market last season because we only had enough for seed. Now they are all planted in some beautiful rich soil, tucked in under their first blanket of straw mulch - and as you can see, less than a week later, the first ones are already peeping through looking for some carbon and nitrogen to pump into growth and into the earth. Still lots of care needed to get them through to December.
08.01.2022 Would you like to listen to some Mozart on this lovely Saturday afternoon, girls? Nein, danke. Der Wind in den Tannenbäumen ist Musik genug.
06.01.2022 The garlic crop was on drying racks almost ready for market. Our seed for next season was there as well. All the lemon and lime trees were killed by the heat of the fire. We have ordered 400 more, we will be planting in the spring and starting again.
06.01.2022 Saturday 4th January 2020. Our neighbours in the Gilmore Valley below us are preparing to defend their properties, and witness the breathtaking ferocity of the fire as it encircles Stoney Ridge and then explodes into a massive fireball. Could anything up there possibly survive?
05.01.2022 Preparing our first crop of lemons for Sydney organic markets, we thought we should check the juice content. Industry standards in Australia are for a minimum of 20%-25% (Woolworths pick the low number). The result in the photo is typical of our lemons tested: weight of lemon 150grams, volume of juice 58ml (i.e. 58g) = juice content 38%!! Average over several tests 35%+. You don't have to go to Sydney to get these lemons. Ask Leanne at Simply Wholesome, Tumut. ...And don't throw the rest away! Google the goodness of the rind and pith. An awesome fruit, the humble lemon!
01.01.2022 A sign of returning normality at Stoney Ridge. First harvest from the garden since the fires, and some special sauerkraut on the way. Brava Berlinde!!!
