Close-up of wicker baskets and a metal tub filled with citrus fruit, mostly oranges with a few yellow and green fruits mixed in. The round fruits are piled high, with basket rims visible around the edges.

Citrus season is the best! We’re busy preserving from the glut both at home and at the farm by freezing and dehydrating oranges, lemons and limes. It’s so easy to do and ensures a year round supply of delicious fruit.

If you haven’t done it before - freezing citrus is so easy. Zest or grate the skin and store in a zip lock bag in the freezer, then squeeze out the juice and freeze in an ice cube tray (for lemons and limes), before transposing to a container or bag, or in the case of oranges just peel and cut up into bite size pieces then arrange in a single layer in a zip lock bag. We have been using the same plastic bags for years. They last ages if not jostled around too much in the freezer.

And finally, we’re increasing our open hours to include Mondays starting this coming week. The farm shop and cafe will be open 8am to 1pm, which means you are most welcome to stop by:

Monday - 8am to 1pm

Tuesday - 7am to 3pm

Wednesday - 7am to 5:30pm

Thursday - 7am to 5:30pm

Friday - 7am to 3pm

Saturday - 8am to 1pm

Sunday closed

The online farm shop continues to be open all hours, seven days a week, for boxes that can be collected Thursday to Saturday. The order cut off time is 8am on Tuesdays. It’s through the online farm shop that you can order set price boxes, like the one pictured here, which was packed fresh for a lovely customer just last week.

Sunlit wooden table set up with kids’ craft supplies, including jars of colorful pipe cleaners, pencils and markers, scissors, glue, paper plates, and small baskets. In the background are wooden chairs, a patterned couch with blankets, and windows and shelves inside a corrugated-metal room.

Limited places available this week! It’s been our biggest school holiday program yet, including a second Stencil Artworkshop and a new All About Dragons session. To see what’s on offer, click on the link below.

The popular Kids Create! sessions are back, along with a whole lot of new stuff

Make your own bread for morning tea, visit the animals and plant your own seeds in the Farm Kids sessions; make beeswax candles and kite paper window stars; create your own art pieces with layering stencils; have a go at linocut and block printing or learn how to make marbled paper and your very own clay creatures with air dry clay.

Places are limited to keep the session sizes small and allow the kids to make use of the space. Neurodiverse kids and kids of all abilities are welcome.

Follow the link here for more information and to book a spot.

Green broccoli with long stems sits on a wooden table, with a purple cauliflower behind it. Sunlight casts strong shadows across the vegetables and table.

Close-up of a metal pan filled with orange-red stew containing potato chunks, chickpeas, and leafy greens. The pan sits on a round wooden board on a teal surface, with a piece of flatbread in the corner.

Available this week through the cafe and as a take home meal - Indian style potato, chickpea and silverbeet curry. Made from scratch by us using organic and wholefood ingredients.

Overhead view of an adult and child using a sewing machine on a wooden table. Scissors, fabric pieces, a pin cushion, and a sewing kit are spread around the workspace.