The wheat field at the bottom of our garden is coming along nicely
Bags of wheat drying & airing in our farm "go down" (store/barn) before being transported to the cityIn April I did a post on our current wheat crop (which you can read here) and also included a photograph of the wheat field at the bottom of our garden. This is the exact same field of wheat pictured above, taken from the bottom of the garden (only from a slightly different angle) a couple of weeks ago.
We are slowly starting to harvest the first lot of wheat now. Not all of it is ready for harvest yet (as you can see the field in front of our house is still quite green) … but it won’t be long now.
Some of the wheat which we harvested last week was a little wet – so I posted a picture of it in the open bags, stored in our “go down” (a term used here for a store or barn) where it is being left to dry and air a little, before being sealed (the bags are sewn by hand with sisal twine) and transported by road to the city.
A couple of weeks ago, Justin suddenly came in to the house “Mama, Mama - there is a small problem !” He was ironing out on the veranda and had suddenly seen a little blonde head and a reddish coloured tail bobbing along the top of this very same field of wheat in front of the house. It was my daughter and one of our dogs, Dibble … they had squeezed through a gap in the wooden fence where one of the wooden slats was a bit loose. Of course I ran straight down there and hauled her out – she had been having a whale of a time … and without any shoes on, either – kids, hey ?!
So, needless to say the fence has since been fixed and thankfully, neither my daughter nor the dog have been on any adventures since !
We are slowly starting to harvest the first lot of wheat now. Not all of it is ready for harvest yet (as you can see the field in front of our house is still quite green) … but it won’t be long now.
Some of the wheat which we harvested last week was a little wet – so I posted a picture of it in the open bags, stored in our “go down” (a term used here for a store or barn) where it is being left to dry and air a little, before being sealed (the bags are sewn by hand with sisal twine) and transported by road to the city.
A couple of weeks ago, Justin suddenly came in to the house “Mama, Mama - there is a small problem !” He was ironing out on the veranda and had suddenly seen a little blonde head and a reddish coloured tail bobbing along the top of this very same field of wheat in front of the house. It was my daughter and one of our dogs, Dibble … they had squeezed through a gap in the wooden fence where one of the wooden slats was a bit loose. Of course I ran straight down there and hauled her out – she had been having a whale of a time … and without any shoes on, either – kids, hey ?!
So, needless to say the fence has since been fixed and thankfully, neither my daughter nor the dog have been on any adventures since !
