Cattle and water use
Zaia supports pasture fed beef growing as a more humane and environmentally friendly method than other “industrial” methods, and refutes the notion that beef production needs to use an excess of water.
Tagged: Livestock
Strawberry Transplant Time
Tom Kendall transplants strawberry runners into a new garden bed.
Potato Planting
Tom Kendall plants potatoes and manages his cow pastures.
Tom is back, a snake bite and harvesting
Tom is back from Jordan, nursing a dog bitten by a red belly blake snake back to health and processing our harvest!
New cell grazing paddock for the cows
Cows: cell grazing, on heat and their manure as skin conditioner…
Geoff Lawton filming our farm
Geoff Lawton spends the day on our farm with his family, to film our many permaculture systems.
A “shitty” start to the day…
Covered in cow poop before breakfast…
Easter weekend at the farm…
Easter weekend with the animals and music on our permaculture farm…
Every job has more than one purpose
Tom Kendall’s “every job should have more than one purpose” in action, lopping guava trees for paddock clearing and goat forage at Maungaraeeda.
Learning the biodigester routine and banana flour
Zaia feeds the biodigester in order to feed herself and her family and makes banana flour for sweet and savoury egg free dishes!
Bio digester slurry processing by the chooks
The chickens process the biodigester slurry into compost and prepare their own forage area in the stationary chicken tractor at Zaia and Tom Kendall’s permaculture farm.
Citrus harvest and cream separating
Zaia harvest limes and lemonades and separates the cream from the milk at Maungaraeeda today.
