Organically grown produce in the Western Bay of Plenty
Now the orchard trees are getting their leaves and blossom we can clearly see what each tree is. When we took on the farm we listened to what each one was then promptly forgot and didn’t make any notes…. thank you nature for the clues.
We had perfect weather and plenty of help to get all the mulch down on the blueberries and the weed matting throughout the orchard. Friends and family came to help, some brought tractors, some brought trailers, some brought wheel-barrows, all brought shovels.
The team cracked on giving us time to get the organic fertilizers down, clear up rubbish around the place, set-up, test and run the irrigation across the bays. A really productive day. A good lunch with a selection of gourmet sausages and caramelised onions went down a treat, Loki was on hand to keep the place tidy too.
We’ve been using the slower growing season to get on top of many jobs around the place. Pulling out old structures for long dead vines and digging out old weed matting has left us with a much easier mowing task in the orchards.
That extra time was immediately soaked up by giving our old tractor a service and some TLC to hopefully give us a trouble free busy harvest ahead.
