Life on pasture · The Branch, NSW
Field notes from a farm coming back to life
Follow the regeneration of 42 hectares in real time — the plantings, the setbacks, the soil results and the seasons. Read along, then come get your hands dirty.
Field reports
What the river took, and what it left
The Branch River came up more than two metres in a February deluge, took a fair bit of our bank with it, and then dropped a gift on the flat below the homestead. Notes from the week after, and what it changed about the planting plan.
Feb 2026 · 4 min
Field reports
Five dams, four troughs and one very hot week
A run of 38-degree days in January was the excuse to finally walk every metre of water infrastructure on the property. We found two leaks, one dead pump, a dam we'd overestimated, and a much better picture of how water actually moves across 42 hectares.
Jan 2026 · 4 min
Regeneration
Two summers of rest: what the paddocks did while we did nothing
We took the alpacas off Carinya Parc in early 2024 and asked the land to rest. Two summers on, here is what came back on its own, what did not, and what the first soil samples told us about where to start.
Dec 2025 · 4 min