Esmee the Donkey

Happy New Year to you all. We started this year by picking up my beautiful new donkey called Esmée. She is a 12m month old Teamster donkey. Her parents are from wild rescued donkeys from Qld and NT. I am looking forward to our learning journey together. She will take over dear Gus’ page. I could not delete his memories so i thought it would be nice to just carry them on with her.

We are also very excited to have secured some permanent spots at 3 VFMA farmers markets. Coburg every 3rd Saturday and Flemington every 1st and 2nd Sunday. These markets run from 8am to 1pm.

One of our biggest sellers now is the Olive Paste and Olive Jam ( a sweet version of the paste made with apples and orange juice and sugar) , both are lovely with crackers and cheese. Even if you don’t like olives most people enjoy the jam
We have been busy planting tubestock Lavender. Unfortunately we lost over 2000 due to the heat here as they had been growing in Melbourne. The temperatures have slowed down production there but it left it too late in the season here due to our temperatures. Luckily we were able to source some bigger plants and have planted these in. The total area planted will now be a bit smaller but will be still as amazing. We have planted 16 varieties of which 12 are culinary. We have bought a copper alembic still this year so you can all come and watch the distilling process for essential oil hopefully around xmas time this year.

Keep well everyone and we look forward to catching up with you through the year at Markets or at our grove at the end of the year when we open for bus tours or weekend farm tours.