A snapshot of our local weather today!
Never-the -less, the garlic is sitting out there enjoying the cold and waiting for spring to 'pop', when it can start 'bulking up' and forming its cloves. We are getting organised with our new seeds e.t.c. for the coming season's vegie crops and starting to make early on-farm preparations towards seed raising our new vegie plants and other timely early season jobs such as weeding the garlic and herb plants. We're anticipating spring might come early this year going by the buds and blossoms around the place but it's no where near spring weather here right now.
The winners were announced for the ABC delicious Produce Awards a few weeks ago on July 25 in Sydney. Unfortunately 'no cigar' for our garlic this year but some of our producer friends won 'gongs' which we are very pleased about. These Gold Medallists include Fernleigh Farm Free-range for their chorizo, Sher Wagu for their beef and Holy Goats for their La Luna soft goats cheese. Holy Goat were also inducted into the Produce Awards 'Hall of Fame' and Fiona Chambers from Fernleigh Farms won the 'Heritage Award' for her tireless work in raising and promoting rare breed animals. Congratulations to these folks and all the other winners for 2011. Apparently it was a record number of nominations this year since the awards began, which is wonderful news for quality Australian produce and sustainable agriculture.
Watch this space for new season farm news from us to come...
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