Our winter photos..

Children and Animals..

During the September Mudgee Wine Festival we brought 3 newly weaned piglets up to the cellar door. Although initially tentative then were soon won over by Emily and Felix. Emily has named this one Olivia - more of them can be seen on the Ormiston facebook page - where we christened Em The Pig Whisperer. Needless to say the pigs have been eartagged as breeders and will join the herd when they are big enough.

It is obviously spring around here because we have also got 'Cheepy' a solitary chick that was unsold at the local farm shop. I couldn't help myself and bought 'her' (hmm..let's wait and see) home. She was meant to go under a broody hen for adoption. By the next day she had indeed been adopted..but not by a chicken.

Happy as a pig at Ormiston

We have just moved the growers on to the next paddock...it has been resting for 8 months and the abundant rain has had quite an effect...

It has been a busy (cringe) 5 months since our last post... we have had lots of press and publicit. In the last 2 weeks the cafe made the SMH Good Food Guide 2011, Delicious Magazine and we just had the crew from Landline and Sydney Weekender film us and our opinions. Taking an empty bucket into the paddock with 14 hungry sows for the camera ended up with Harriet giving me the 'look' that meant that I held my nerve for about 4 seconds and then threw the bucket down and reversed out of the paddock at great speed. Apparently I may now end up on the bloopers roll... We are gearing up for the Christmas orders and as usual wish our small farm could yield more. Still, keeping them as happy as above means that we have to keep the farm idyllic and our numbers small.