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Growing Food, Keeping Animals »

[2 Dec 2008 | 2 Comments | ]

The Sydney Morning Herald’s “Good Living” supplement today has an article about HerdShare and Rentachook, titled City folk find a milky way.

HerdShare runs out of Byron Bay, and facilitates a scheme designed to get around Australian regulations that prohibit the sale of raw (unpasteurised) milk. Instead of buying your milk at retail, you instead buy [...]

Keeping Animals »

[27 Nov 2008 | 7 Comments | ]

Since Molly the rooster moved out to the farm, we’ve been wanting to get another chook or two for the chicken tractor.

Our three black silkies are just about to come into lay (I’ve been saying that for 3 weeks now!), but we thought it would be nice to get a ‘proper’ layer as well. We [...]

Events, Keeping Animals »

[19 Nov 2008 | 4 Comments | ]

This is one workshop I would really like to attend, but unfortunately we’ve got something else on that day! If you go, I’d love it if you could leave a comment below and let us know how it went.

Date: Saturday 22 November 2008 Time: 10:00am – 3:00pm

Learn how you can keep happy, healthy chooks in your [...]