Apr 21, 2025 | Environmental Projects, News
For countless centuries, a star-studded night sky has been a source of wonder and inspiration. Standing beneath a canopy of stars, you can feel both minute and infinite at the very same. You are just one person on Earth and yet you are intimately connected to the vast... 
Mar 11, 2024 | Environmental Projects
In an earlier blog post we outlined some of our Guiding Principles. While that is a very helpful document, we decided we needed to go further and outline a set of Acknowledgements and Farm Rules – our Farm Philosophy if you like – the principles we could... 
Nov 22, 2023 | Ecological Farming Practices, Environmental Projects
St John’s Wort is by far the most prevalent weed on Highfield. Introduced from Europe, Asia and North Africa, it was brought to Australia in 1875 as a garden plant and for use in herbal medicine. St John’s Wort has become a severe weed in parts of NSW. A... 
May 29, 2022 | Ecological Farming Practices, Environmental Projects
ANCIENT PADDOCK TREES Those amazingly large trees you see dotted across farming landscapes? They are the remnants of formerly treed landscapes cleared for grazing and cropping. Some of the largest scattered trees you see in paddocks are hundreds of years old. These... 
Jan 29, 2022 | Botany, Environmental Projects, Native Grasses
HERE IS A DISTURBING STATISTIC FOR YOU! According to the Australian Museum, since 1788, 90% of Australia’s temperate woodlands and 99% of Australia’s temperate grasslands have been destroyed or degraded through human intervention. This underscores the disastrous... 
Aug 22, 2021 | Ecological Farming Practices, Environmental Projects
TYPES OF THISTLES During the first couple of years at Highfield, we learned a lot about thistles – we had to, there were just so many of them. “Are there different types of thistles?”, I hear you ask. “Aren’t they all just Scotch Thistles?” Ah, no is the short...
