Hello Rainbow OMGers, This week marked a huge occasion for us. We have finally installed a permanent irrigation system and extended our water lines to encompass the entire farm block! We started this farm with almost no budget and have been using 90 metres of garden hose to water everything since February last year. This …
Hello Rainbow OMGers, It was lovely to get some rain this week and the extreme Summer heat continues to be offset by cool southerly weather patterns. This has seen very nice growth across all of our vegetables this week. Zucchini’s are available from this week and we have one serve of Cherry Tomatoes available with …
Hello Rainbow OMGers, As is customary Rainbow has been skirted by every raindrop that fell in the region in the last week. The Pipeline is a huge blessing to our town and we are certainly most grateful for this relatively new infrastructure available to us. Last week was a Leaf Cycle in the Lunar Calendar …
Happy New Year Rainbow OMGers, We allowed ourselves some downtime over the holiday break but the veggies don’t stop growing so we are back into full swing and ready to make 2022 a creative and fulfilling year. The first true heat wave of Summer hit us last week, while we did not suffer any losses, …
Happy New Year Rainbow OMGers, We hope everyone had a great Christmas, we certainly did, catching up with some family, playing music and seeing children having a great time was real highlight for us. This will be a brief email this week but we are happy to announce that Basil, Cucumbers and Bok Choi are …
Merry Christmas Rainbow OMGers, We have just past the Summer Solstice and give thanks to our life giving Sun and all its power. Our sun burnt Iceberg Lettuce is not so happy but all other crops just keep on trucking. We wish you a Merry Christmas and thank you all for your support of our …
Hello Rainbow OMGers, There is nothing better than the sound of rain on a tin roof in Summer. We thank the rain no matter when it falls and are always open to receive more. This week saw some nice hot weather and we have planted our second succession of tomatoes. We now have 125 Tomatoe …
Hello Rainbow OMGers, This weeks beautiful weather is just about ideal for growing veggies. All plants put on great growth this week and the tomatoes have started flowering, we hope to have tomatoes available before Christmas. We were pleasantly surprised with the positive response to Coriander and as a result we only have limited availability this week …
Hello Rainbow OMGers, We finally have some consistent hot weather which has been lovely. Our main goal for the farm this week has been setting up as much shade as we have available. Most vegetables grow much healthier with at least 30% shade in our hot, dry climate so we have obliged and will keep …
Hello Rainbow OMGers, The star of the farm this week has been Garlic! We have been very busy pulling, drying, cleaning and hanging our Garlic Harvest for curing. We hope to have 1 kg bags of Organic Garlic available for sale in a few weeks once they have cured. Coriander is inching closer to harvest …
