26.3.2020
We are nearly through our first week of isolation and we are settling down to a life as peasants. I am surprised at how busy we are. With the goat kids weaned I am making cheese most days. Feta yesterday and lemon cheese today. I am also harvesting the last of our summer vegetables and preserving as much as possible.
Today I made frozen pesto cubes from the basil and garlic and I have picked more parsley to dry. It has been a glorious warm autumn day and I have now dug over the gardens where the summer crops have finished and refreshed them with compost from the goat sheds. The beans have not quite ended the wonderful heavy yield that they have been giving us. We have eaten masses, given masses away and frozen lots too. I am so grateful to my little bean bushes for the abundance they have given us. It seems cruel to pull them up and throw them out.
We have still been unable to source more chooks, but I am told there may be some next week. The number of eggs each day has dropped dramatically, and we are no longer able to supply our customers. In contrast, I am trying to dry off the goats we sold so they can go to their new home, but they continue to produce too much milk to ignore. Eden can be left unmilked, Angie and Zero can be milked only every second day but Dorcas is full every morning.
The sheep we moved have eaten out the first croft and we are planning to move them to the horses’ paddock and put the horses on the hill. As usual this is not simple, the dam in that paddock leaks and we need to set up an alternative water supply.
So far, Edd has been very good and stayed on the farm missing out on his usual afternoon trip to Yarra Glen. I am actually surprised he has lasted this long. I often spend a week without going anywhere so I have not had to change my habits yet. I am just working harder than usual on keeping up the food supply.
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