by Jenna Palladino | Oct 2, 2021 | Blog
October in the Orchard This is noisy month. As I write this month’s events in the orchard you can hear the noise from my office. This year I am convinced there is more noise than other years. There is the baa baa from the sheep who now live in a flock of 50. There is...
by Jenna Palladino | Sep 3, 2021 | Blog
September in the Orchard Winter has officially finished and the first month of spring has arrived. This year has been the wettest winter since we purchased Chestnut Brae and the farm is still exceptionally wet. This has meant that it has been difficult to get into the...
by Jenna Palladino | Aug 27, 2021 | Blog
‘Grandy’s Long Walk’ by Linda Stanley We were so excited when Linda Stanley’s book ‘Grandy’s Long Walk’ was featured on the podcast Radio WA Conversations with Barry Green – Western Tourist Radio A conversation,...
by Jenna Palladino | Aug 4, 2021 | Blog
The Farm in August Water Chestnuts are a reed and grow in water, they are in fact a root tuber. In July this year I am sure our sweet chestnuts became water chestnuts.It rained almost every day of the month and we had the wettest and what felt like the coldest July in...
by Jenna Palladino | Jul 1, 2021 | Blog
The Chestnut Orchard in July Chestnuts need around 600mm a year of water, mainly in the winter and cool weather when they are dormant. They got both this year. We have had an exceptionally wet and cold June which is ideal chestnut winter weather. The winter storms...
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