Hopes and Aims

So now that we have the land..... what do we do with it??

I have always been interested in growing vegetables, fruits, herbs for my own consumption - I think its in the blood - lately I have become more aware of maybe just growing food isn't going to cut it, that the desire is to live lighter on the earth and in turn find a way to live simpler in a world where things just keep costing more and more is attainable.

So our hope is to grow vegetables - but heirlooms, ones that may have been passed by because they don't stay ripe in the supermarket for weeks on end - the vegetables that have a short, but spectacular growing life - a purple carrot, and an orange watermelon... I also want to save seed, and be able to save seed - things that multinationals would not want us to do.

We will have chickens and collect eggs, when I first raised the idea of having a house cow with my father he thought that it was going to be the silliest idea he had ever heard of... and maybe he's right, but we will see. Cath wants pigs, and we will have bees - probably natives, not European. We have raised the idea of growing our own meat - and the jury is out at the moment... its all well and good to have these lofty ideals, but we will see if it eventuates.

We will live on permaculture principles - where we will try, as much as possible, to have a closed system in place.... and I'm sure it will be lots of hard work (please see previous description of the soil to find out how hard it will be) but I think it will be lots of fun... and it will be ours.