Mudhouse Farm

13/09/2026

Well Spring has certainly sprung! Everything seems to have popped up and popped out in recent days. The blossoms on fruit trees, new buds on rose bushes, seeds just starting to poke their heads above warming soil, bees busy collecting pollen, cows moved onto lush new spring grass and the cries of newly hatched magpies calling out for their next feed of worms. What a beautiful season we are in.

27/08/2026

Elly Boyer Sam Whitehead how lucky are you two 😍

23/08/2026

Spring is so close and I can feel the subtle changes already. The maggies doing their night time chatting to their babies, the odd waft of fox scent on the low shrubs, the plovers' warning calls while guarding eggs, the buds on the fruit trees showing promise of an abundant season, the flower petals starting to unfurl on fragile stems, the smell of fresh eucalyptus after the rains and the beautiful flowers they drop leaving a multicoloured carpet on the ground.
Sometimes I get so bogged down in the whats next that I miss what's happening now, the early hours mental list writing seems to be getting longer but I know it will all get done eventually. I just need to enjoy today.

'Today is a new day filled with fresh chances, new strength, and a clean slate to let go of yesterday'.

Paul Whitehead without you none of this would exist, thank you for walking beside me and bringing my crazy ideas to life xx

15/08/2026

I could hear my Dad growling at me for this! From a young age we mowed the lawns weekly, one week the lines went one way the next the other, this has followed me into my adulthood. I take my lawn mowing pretty seriously, probably more than it should to be honest. So to do this it has actually annoyed me immensely. Now my quandary is do I order soil to fill the trench or do I use it to my advantage and grow Sunflowers in it 🤔

22/06/2026

Stunning blooms again this year.
Paul Whitehead Treloar Roses

23/05/2026

And now we have a female Mountain Pepper Berry to keep our male happy! Couldn't believe our luck, tucked away behind lots of male plants was this little girl just waiting to come back to the farm with us 😍.
Paul Whitehead

07/05/2026

03/05/2026

Our poor old ( actually not that old) passion fruit vine is really struggling with snail invasion, not the big normal garden pests but these tiny little pointy buggers (Cochlicella Acuta). We have three vines in and they are all chewed with in an inch of dying. Nothing seems to stop them in their tracks .
We were gifted some fruit this week and I knew it needed to be turned into syrup. We mix this with soda water, my mum suggested putting it on ice cream, what’s your favourite way to use passion fruit?

09/04/2026

April - Garlic planting time. 440 cloves planted and all are up and looking happy, this year we are trying Elephant (Russian) Garlic although not a true garlic it still has mild garlic/ onion flavour with much bigger cloves.
Our fingers and toes are crossed for a great season.

Our Avocado tree is loving life in the shade tent, fussy little buggers these trees can be! Too windy - dies, too dry - dies, too cold - dies, look at it sideways - dies!! We must be doing something right tho as it’s doubled in size recently.

Tasmania Pepperberry Tree - so excited to add this beauty to the orchard. Even more excited to use the leaves in cooking. Needing to find a female tree so we can harvest the actual pepper berries ( finding this a little tricky at the moment but I won’t give up).