The year that was 2024

Starting back in 2023, where we left off…. Harvest for 2023 was delayed by heavy rains, leaving farmer Steve with an opportunistic schedule for the heritage grains plot, especially as they had so many other paddocks to harvest first.  Harvest of the heritage plot was finally completed on the 19th December, 2023 around the wet …

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Well fed birds and a chat around the fire – Receiving seeds 2019 & planning 2020

Sometime after moving to Pomonal post bakery-tour-holiday and starting up a micro-bakery, I thought “I’d like to try growing some wheat and rye”.   An email to the Horsham Genebank, a bit of back and forth to clarify grain types, local region & climate, a signature and soon 49 tiny seed packets arrived in the mail!  …

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Learning about the past to understand the future – Australian Grains Genebank 2018

In December 2018 we started off on our three month holiday-bakery-tour-extravaganza-thingy, the first stop, of course, was the iconic Red Beard bakery in Trentham where we were put up for the night by John and got to hang out for a bake. From there we headed west for a quick visit to my parents’ house …

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