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 […]
Rainbow OMG Weekly Post 05/10/22 Read More »
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
Rainbow OMG Weekly Post 28/09/22 Read More »
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
Rainbow OMG Weekly Post 21/09/22 Read More »
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
Rainbow OMG Weekly Post 14/09/22 Read More »
Merging Production With Beauty At Rainbow OMG we are equal parts Farmers and Artists. We strive to produce the highest quality, poison-free food locally available while simultaneously creating an oasis of beauty from the monocultures that surround the town, particularly in Summer as “Spraying” (shorthand for Poisoning) keeps everything around Rainbow brown and dead. We
Rainbow OMG Weekly Post 7/09/22 Read More »
Harvesting Rainwater At Rainbow OMG this Monday we received a very heavy deluge of rain, the heaviest being 12 mm in about 10 minutes. The result was a lot of run off, most of which we have directed to an infiltration basin planted with an Oak Tree. William is inspecting the basin in today’s photo
Rainbow OMG Weekly Post 31/08/22 Read More »
The Cycles of Life This week we had the sombre task of replacing our Chicken flock. This involved dispatching our 3 remaining old birds in order to welcome 14 new layers into our micro farm. The deliberate act of taking another life is something we approach we respect and gratitude. We thanked our old girls
Rainbow OMG Weekly Post 24/08/22 Read More »
Regenerating Our Soils “Despite all our accomplishments, we owe our existence to a six-inch layer of topsoil and the fact it rains.” – Unknown Yesterday I had the pleasure of preparing one of our oldest garden beds to be seeded with carrots. This bed – pictured above – has grown at least 7 consecutive vegetable crops
Rainbow OMG Weekly Post 17/08/22 Read More »
Winter Abundance & Hints of Warmer Weather As you can see in the above photo we are producing a broad range of high quality vegetables even in the dead of Winter. This is a great climate for vegetable production as long as we have access to irrigation water of some kind in Summer. In Winter
Rainbow OMG Weekly Post 10/08/22 Read More »
Happy Birthday Evan! On this day August 3rd, 1985 a quiet young baby boy was born in Wangaratta, Victoria. 37 years, 6 trips to Europe, 2 to the USA and countless laps around Australia later, that baby is now a Husband, Father, Friend and clean food provider for his community in the small town of
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