Edenvale Forest Farm

Feeling super rich,
with little treasures growing near
baby apples 🍎🍏,
and yummy chokos,

Cabbage growing strong,
soon to become delicious sauerkraut,
while ginger waits patiently for a chai and a curry
And curry leaves for jeera rice

Avos and pumpkin,
such generous gifts from the earth,
and catnip for a catnap 💤—
because we all deserve a little rest.

And then there’s the silver spurflower,
beautiful and mysterious,
a plant I’d love to know more about,
especially since it seemed to help
me finally shake my chronic cough (albeit accidentally)
Becuz I assumed it was mullein 🙈

So maybe I’m not rich
but with this little garden growing,
I feel incredibly wealthy
in the very best kind of way. 🌿💚

Thank you 🌎🌱🍃

Check out this for a special little bun fresh out of the oven 🐮

Thanks to Sally the STIHL, this paddock is looking schmick! 🌱💪

The before shots show the devil’s figs popping up everywhere. Farmher Leigh’s approach? Brushcut the lot so they can mulch back into the ground, no poisoning and no tractor needed.

A few hours of whipping later… check out those after shots! 👌
Hard yards, but it gets the job done.

Apple blossoms 🍎

I have eaten apples all my life but have been so far removed from the stages of an apple tree ( from a seedling to a ginormous tree producing kilos of fruits)

So here’s a little attempt to get one step closer to the lifecycle of an apple 🍎

Introducing Buddy King 🐮

We are grandparents 🎉🥳
Our baby Lola has had her baby and he is settling in really well. He is with us in for a few rotations whilst we smother him with cuddles & pats before we let him loose with his elder bros n sis.

I jinxed myself by thinking the garden was looking awesome and we will have veggies & herbs coming up soon.

But Twinky 🐮 broke in and destroyed most of our hard work.

On a + note, we have taken the destroyed stuff (mullein, watermelons, salvias, etc) and potted them up again to see if they will take. We still have some seedlings that we didn’t pot up because of the weather.

Moral of the story: don’t get cows 🐮

Who needs to go to a jungle when you can have one in your garden? Haven’t encountered or stepped on a snake yet so that’s a bonus with all the wildness in the garden.

We have planted a few things like zucchini, ginger, watermelons, pigeon pea, comfrey, mullein, chamomile, spilanthes & dandelions. Goldfinger bananas & Blue Java are finally popping up. And after 8 loonnng years, we have a few avos on the tree 🥑🎉

Homemade halloumi from scratch 🐐🧀

Cheesemaking is one of those hobbies you can never get enough of …

Simple steps. Infinite steps. Worth the time & effort

The end result? Fresh, squeaky, golden-edged halloumi that tastes lmuch better than any store brought cheese .

And that’s just today…
We’ve got crottin, chèvres, cheddar and brie on the go too.
Living the homesteading, cheesemaking life and loving every minute of it. ✨

You can never have too many goats 🐐

The moos and the views
Never gets old
Blessed to be here ♥️