Our-story

Adding cattle to our hobby farm has been our plan since the day we moved in. After countless hours of researching breeds and weighing our options, we were finally ready to take the plunge!

Adding ten thousand livestock to a small hobby farm may sound outrageous, but that's just what we did when we populated our first bee hive.

The sheep were starting to out grow their modest paddock, and I had some new skills to learn.

This time we welcomed a surprise new entry to our family. It wasn't planned, but the addition of sheep bring with them a whole new challenge to our modest hobby farm.

There are a lot of things on a hobby farm that could go wrong. This one really took us by surprise.

I'm not entirely sure why I so badly wanted to have my own goats. One thing was for sure; There was a lot to learn.

An account of my experience shifting to the rural lifestyle from Melbourne to get started on a small hobby farm on a sloped property in the West of Gippsland.