Apparently everyone and their dog wants backyard chickens at the minute, but our chicken adoption has been a long while in the making. The heightened demand does add some complexity to our mission to populate our recently finished coop, but we are not to be discouraged.

Getting our chicken coop from a state of disrepair to chicken-liveable was a much bigger project than we realised when we first started. It felt like an perpetual exercise of Murphy's Law, but we refused to let this thing defeat us!

Swarming is something you want to avoid as a beekeeper. Avoid, or at least control. We hadn't anticipated this one, and had to learn quickly how best to deal with it.

Keeping the sheep confined to one half of the paddock is a great way to get the most out of the pasture, but when the sheep needed to be moved, the fences needed to be ready. What started as a short project quickly proved to be a surprising challenge.

Adding cattle to our hobby farm has been our plan since the day we moved in. After countless hours of researching breeds and weighing our options, we were finally ready to take the plunge!

Once your bees have started to outgrow the nucleus, this is how to transfer your bees to a Langstroth hive