by HOFC | 14/08/2023 | Sellar Farmhouse Creamery
Finally the milk drought has well and truly broken. With Ginger, Chloe and Norma all calved, happy and healthy the milks-a-flowin’. We will have lot’s of milk and yoghurt to sell at market this week and I’ll be offering some more people on the...
by HOFC | 14/03/2023 | Sellar Farmhouse Creamery
Many of my local dairy shoppers will have noticed the supply dropping over the past month or two, I’m sure you’ve missed out more than once at market. Well unfortunately the milk drought of 2023 has set in and until July when litres increase there will often be weeks...
by HOFC | 19/02/2023 | Uncategorized
Summer is in full swing here at the Harcourt Organic Farming Co-op. It is a busy and productive time of year. We are excited to spend some time with you sharing our diverse farming stories and showing you around our patches.We are a collaboration of 5 organic...
by HOFC | 06/10/2022 | Sellar Farmhouse Creamery
Spring has definitely sprung here in Harcourt and what a season it is! La Nina is certainly showing herself at the farm this year. The ground is well and truly saturated, gullies all flowing and more falling from the sky as I write. Definitely still manageable though,...
by HOFC | 03/08/2022 | Sellar Farmhouse Creamery
PLEASE NOTE: If you have been to Bali/Indonesia in the past three months please notify us before coming on farm. If you have, do not wear shoes, clothing or bring equipment which you traveled with onto our farm, or any farm in Australia for 6 months. Please avoid...
by HOFC | 26/07/2022 | Coop news
Like most of the country we farmers are also battling the winter sicknesses and due to being short staffed the only thing we will be sending to market this week is the CSA dairy subscriptions. So unfortunately that means no sales of dairy or veg. Hopefully we’ll...
by HOFC | 17/03/2022 | Sellar Farmhouse Creamery
This is my reflection on the life and death of our two beautiful steers, Otis and Rupert. This is possibly the most controversial part of dairy, the part many would prefer didn’t exist and in fact something which many would not even consider. Our first...
by HOFC | 11/02/2022 | Gung Hoe Growers
Through spring, the grey shrike thrush could be heard whistling from up in the poplars on the edge of peaches and cream. As summer hit, the thrush grew quiet, making space in the morning song for the galahs and sulphur crested cockatoos that dart across the sky we...
by HOFC | 18/01/2022 | Carr’s Organic Fruit Tree Nursery, Grow Great Fruit
Summer is traditionally a pretty quiet time when it comes to growing fruit trees. It’s kind of the opposite to growing fruit, which is flat-to-the-floor busy in summer and has a quiet time in winter. That’s not to say there’s nothing to do! Keeping up with...
by HOFC | 20/12/2021 | Sellar Farmhouse Creamery
In my blog posts I have covered many components which make up Sellar Farmhouse Creamery. I haven’t yet talked about the amazing humans who bring my crazy dreams to fruition. So as we come to the end of our second year of both milk production and a global...