by tania@decantdigital.com | May 29, 2022 | Environmental Projects, Sustainable Farming Practices
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...
by tania@decantdigital.com | 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...
by tania@decantdigital.com | Aug 22, 2021 | Environmental Projects, Sustainable Farming Practices
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...
by tania@decantdigital.com | Jul 24, 2021 | Environmental Projects
SHEEP CAMPING EXPLAINED Highfield Farm and Woodland, as regular followers will already know, is a unique combination of small-scale farming and a conservation area. While two-thirds of our farm protects critically endangered habitat for all time, our efforts to...
by tania@decantdigital.com | Nov 2, 2019 | Environmental Projects, Sustainable Farming Practices
ABUNDANCE OF BIRD LIFE DIVERSITY We are delighted to host here at Highfield the most incredible bird diversity. As at November 2019, we have identified 129 different bird species here, many of which are threatened species. [Update 10/11/19 – Black-eared cuckoo – 130....
by tania@decantdigital.com | Oct 21, 2019 | Environmental Projects
A QUESTION TO PONDER Last week a Facebook friend of Highfield Farm and Woodland came for a visit. I showed her and her little boy around, visiting the sheep, the laying hens, and the meat chickens. We looked at eggs in the incubator and talked about eggshell colour....
