AUTUMN AND WINTER FARM WORK

As usual the quieter autumn and winter months allow us to get stuck into repairs and maintenance, building of new sheds, bottling of wine and other farm work.

This year we took advantage of the wet weather to burn the alien brush dotted around from our big alien clearing late last year, and in the process have revealed rocks and water ways never seen before. We also hired an enormous digger loader to clear the stream bed running down from the pavilion, as last year the stream became a river bursting its banks and sending piles of mud into the swimming pool and olive groves. As has happened the past few years, our next door neighbour has ploughed and planted koeroff on the central fields of our farm in exchange for hay to feed our animals.

With regard to wine work we have been busy bottling (both by hand and with the mobile bottlers) and still have a lot more to get to.