Weekly Post

That’s a lot of Garlic This year has certainly provided us with a lot of challenges. We have lost entire beds of transplants to earwigs, rain has smashed emerging seedlings to pieces and insects of some sort have been ravaging our seedlings in the Greenhouse. This is part of the stimulating challenge of natural farming, […]

Thank You We would like to extend a big thank you to all involved in the Market in Rainbow on Saturday. We had excellent sales, met a lot of new customers and had a great many conversations with existing customers, friends and other stall holders. Thank you to the organisers, volunteers and all the vendors

To Market, To Market This Saturday we will attend our third market stall in Rainbow since launching Rainbow OMG. We will be working all week in preparation for the market so will not be making our usual delivery run on Friday. Instead we are very excited to see our regular customers at the market and

Lakes Are Filliing, Mozzies Are Buzzing Well the rain just keeps on falling and the Wimmera River keeps on flowing into Lake Hindmarsh. We drove to 4 Mile Beach this week to take a look and it is really starting to look like a real lake again, Albacutya will follow. We celebrate the rain and

Flowers Are Medicine At Rainbow OMG we like to plant flowers, lots and lots of flowers. All of our Market Garden beds are 10 m x 0.75 m and given the block has existed sheds on it there are plenty of spaces where these beds will not fit. We are planting trees, bushes, herbs and

A Very Special New Life This week we welcomed our daughter Amber to the world. Born at home, delivered by Mum and Dad, she is of course the most beautiful little girl you can imagine. Mum and Baby are fine, Dad is tired but holding down the fort with plenty of help from Nannie and

Signs Of Good Things To Come As you can see the farm is looking gorgeous, we blitz weeded the entire block last week and are now ready for the warm season. Our next step is to broadfork the last 5 new beds at the front of the block and install some additional irrigation for a

Eggscelent Compost Our Chickens are a critical element of our micro farm. Permaculture Design promotes that every element in a system should perform multiple functions and our flock provides us with eggs, labour saving and very high quality compost. Our chickens are housed in a Coop and Run, Deep Litter System. Shaded by a massive

Spring Has Sprung Spring is almost upon us and it looks like it is going to be a wet season, having received over 74 mm just this month. For those who are unaware the Equinox marks the beginning of Spring as this signifies more daylight than darkness until the next Equinox in 6 months. Only

Eat The Rainbow At Rainbow OMG we chose “Eat The Rainbow” as our slogan for two reasons. Firstly when purchasing and consuming our produce you are literally eating part of the town of Rainbow, we grow in Rigg Street, not Queensland. Secondly eating the rainbow is a directive to follow for optimum health. Every colour