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I love bees and believe they are essential - but am allergic. Not life threatening yet, but could be if stung to many more times so won't be harvesting honey. Am looking at getting the local beekeepers to put some of their hives on the property that they can look after - but need my...

haha - won't be for at least 18 months ... yet to harvest our first Spotty Dog Shiraz and then it takes 12 months to brew. However - the wine cellar is pretty well stocked .... :D

We have - and the option is still there - just concentrating on the wine and garlic at the moment ... also starting to wonder if 27 acres is enough as by the time we have wine, garlic, cottages ... where are the horses going to go? :D

Here is a good article about Australians producing natural wine ... appears the locusts have hatched and potentially moved on with the roaring 100km/hr winds of yesterday ... will keep a close eye over the next few days...

hahaha - well - we got a plague of locusts thru last night ... so it's been drought and now locusts - not sure what we've done but hoping the brimstone doesn't follow. Hoping the little munchers don't do us out of a grape crop as there is very little available to spray them with ... hubby...

oooooo - thanks for that - we were watching a segment on Landline about it on Saturday regarding Australian's venturing into this perceived "hippy" market which is now hot in the UK, NY and Europe. Not sure about Spotty Dog Estate ... will try a few combinations and see what's available as a...

And he has a love heart nose just like my spotty dog! So very cute ... we've managed to discern Retriever, Boarder Collie and perhaps Kelpie in ours so far. We have the company banner name already - nothing to do with the enterprise - so will be operating under trading names for the various...

Skin is what usually makes it red/pink ... and can leave in or not ... just need to brew a little longer to convert the tannins

Wow - so many options and irons in the fire for a mere 27 acres. We're close to canning the idea of the holiday accommodation due to the over $100,000 quoted merely to get additional power connected for three cottages and large start up cost of build, water tanks, septics etc. So, instead...