This guy, drunk on fermenting apples, just ran into my window, threw up, and stole a rock. He's in the tank to sober up.6yr ⋅ 5ittingduck ⋅ r/aww
Ice crystals which grew vertically under a thin layer of soil following frost.3yr ⋅ 5ittingduck ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Neglected Hydrangea bush growing under a Walnut tree, Tasmania, Australia.1yr ⋅ 5ittingduck ⋅ r/gardening
Dendritic patterns in a container after removing a block of frozen Blackberry Juice.2yr ⋅ 5ittingduck ⋅ r/mildlyinteresting
Exercise aids. After 10 years retired these things help keep me moving. Woodshed is 4x4x2 metres, all hand split.1yr ⋅ 5ittingduck ⋅ r/homestead
First time using traditional tools to shape home made butter. I made a huge mess and the result was ugly but functional. I need more practice.3yr ⋅ 5ittingduck ⋅ r/homestead
7 years ago I planted a quince tree. This year, I get my first quince. Just the one.3yr ⋅ 5ittingduck ⋅ r/homestead
The colour is showing in the Southern Hemisphere. Tasmania, Australia.1yr ⋅ 5ittingduck ⋅ r/homestead
Australian veggie garden. I spend 5 minutes showering me, then an hour watering the plants. We store 60,000 litres of rainwater for summer use. Tasmania, Australia.1yr ⋅ 5ittingduck ⋅ r/homestead
My third and final pick of garlic for this year. I might have been a little enthusiastic.3yr ⋅ 5ittingduck ⋅ r/homestead
Hazelnut harvest time in the Southern Hemisphere. Here is our traditional Kilo of Chocolate Hazelnut fudge.1yr ⋅ 5ittingduck ⋅ r/homestead
One year old home made Gouda cheese ready to package for Xmas presents.2yr ⋅ 5ittingduck ⋅ r/homestead
My only female Kiwi Fruit vine has been rather enthusiastic this year (NW Tasmania, Australia).11mo ⋅ 5ittingduck ⋅ r/gardening
One of the best labor saving devices we have installed in our Homestead, the Poodle Prison (details in the comments).2yr ⋅ 5ittingduck ⋅ r/homestead
My garden and orchard (nearly 1 acre) are protected by an electric fence which recently failed. In 10 days, I have caught and relocated 8 of these freeloaders! Brushtail possum, Tasmania, Australia.2yr ⋅ 5ittingduck ⋅ r/homestead
Dinner. Fluffy 3 egg omelette with fresh dug new potatoes and home made 7 year old vintage cheddar cheese.1yr ⋅ 5ittingduck ⋅ r/homestead
Dendritic patterns in a container after removing a block of frozen Blackberry Juice.2yr ⋅ 5ittingduck ⋅ r/oddlyterrifying
The evening sky today from my 20 acre homestead's front porch. Calder, NW Tasmania, Australia.9mo ⋅ 5ittingduck ⋅ r/homestead
Wife is having a baking session in the wood oven. The first Zucchini slice is out and it smells amazing!2yr ⋅ 5ittingduck ⋅ r/homestead
Christmas day gardening in Tasmania, Australia. All the best to everyone.1yr ⋅ 5ittingduck ⋅ r/gardening
Home made salami, made without specialist equipment (other than the UMAI casings).3yr ⋅ 5ittingduck ⋅ r/homestead
I have been hard at work repairing the damage to my cheese supplies, the fridges are slowly refilling.3yr ⋅ 5ittingduck ⋅ r/cheesemaking
Gouda, December 2016, Raw Jersey cow's milk, brined in red wine and garlic, aged in a vac pack. Great aged character, very upset I made only one.4yr ⋅ 5ittingduck ⋅ r/homestead
The birds say my apples are ready to pick! They left a calling card as well. Green Rosella, NW Tasmania.2yr ⋅ 5ittingduck ⋅ r/homestead
Organic snail control. Blue tongue lizard in Tasmania, one of my most valued garden helpers3yr ⋅ 5ittingduck ⋅ r/homestead
The growth after Tasmania's Autumn rains is sometimes good for a laugh.2yr ⋅ 5ittingduck ⋅ r/homestead
Homemade pickles and sauces from mainly home grown produce, Tasmania Australia5yr ⋅ 5ittingduck ⋅ r/ZeroWaste
The wife's latest loaf looks lovely and smells great. 50/50 Kindred Spelt and Wallaby baking flour, recipe is Grant Bread.3yr ⋅ 5ittingduck ⋅ r/homestead
Begging sometimes works! My lovely wife baked me a loaf as lovely as her last and it's Gluten Free!3yr ⋅ 5ittingduck ⋅ r/homestead
Autumn in the Southern Hemisphere! Not a fan of the prickly chestnut husks though.3yr ⋅ 5ittingduck ⋅ r/homestead
All my neighbours have been without power, phone and internet for 2 days following severe windstorms in Tasmania, Australia. We are still powered with phone and internet uninterrupted thanks to Starlink and a Powerwall. Wife is very impressed.2yr ⋅ 5ittingduck ⋅ r/Starlink
State of the homestead garden at the moment, NW Tasmania, Australia. List of plantings in the comments.2yr ⋅ 5ittingduck ⋅ r/homestead
Just a Honeybee on a Coriander flower, but check out the colour of the pollen on her legs! (NW Tasmania, Australia)2yr ⋅ 5ittingduck ⋅ r/Entomology
Probably common in the Americas, but not so much here in Tasmania, Australia. I'm still excited about my first ever year of Tomatillo growing :)2yr ⋅ 5ittingduck ⋅ r/homestead
Fruit leather finished. 1.1 kg from 11kg of fruit. A tenth of the volume and stores indefinitely.4yr ⋅ 5ittingduck ⋅ r/homestead
Crabapples nearly ready to harvest. Crab apple jelly is a big favourite and goes well with our homemade cheeses.5yr ⋅ 5ittingduck ⋅ r/homestead
Step one, make the cheese. Step two, wait until the cheese matures nicely. Step three.....4yr ⋅ 5ittingduck ⋅ r/grilledcheese
Bread in the combustion stove, heating the house and water tank. Sterling engine fan moving hot air around the house. Warm feelings.3yr ⋅ 5ittingduck ⋅ r/homestead
Jealous of you American/Canadian homesteaders with your lovely polite (straight grained) splitable firewood. This is the tree we just cut up in Tasmania, Australia.1yr ⋅ 5ittingduck ⋅ r/homestead
Cheese and salami drying off in my inside fridge. Wife is concerned I am not sharing space.1yr ⋅ 5ittingduck ⋅ r/homestead
My Broccoli game is strong this year! (Usually I suck at growing brassicas). Southern Hemisphere.5mo ⋅ 5ittingduck ⋅ r/homestead
Another day at the office, NW Tasmania. Cleaning and sorting garlic prior to processing and planting a new generation.2yr ⋅ 5ittingduck ⋅ r/australia
Homemade fettuccini drying. It really is that yellow (free range eggs). More details in the comments.2yr ⋅ 5ittingduck ⋅ r/homestead
2014 (6 year old) homemade parmesan style cheese. So fruity! So many crystals!4yr ⋅ 5ittingduck ⋅ r/cheesemaking
Winter 2021 cheese fridge update! We are trying to use up the older cheeses (2014 to 2016) to rationalise supplies.2yr ⋅ 5ittingduck ⋅ r/cheesemaking
Crystals growing in a 4 year old parmesan. Note the interesting mottling. Intensely fruity with tongue tingling umami.3yr ⋅ 5ittingduck ⋅ r/cheesemaking
What to do with excess apples? Fruit leather in spiced apple, apple and kiwifruit and apple and blackberry flavours :)2yr ⋅ 5ittingduck ⋅ r/homestead
It's a monster! The gouda from yesterday's creamy milk. 15% yield, a personal record.5yr ⋅ 5ittingduck ⋅ r/homestead
My oldest ever at nearly 7 years. Parmesan, Powerful flavour, crystals inside and out, long finish.3yr ⋅ 5ittingduck ⋅ r/cheesemaking
Australian made winter clothing, 20 to 30 years old and still going strong. Some details in comments.4yr ⋅ 5ittingduck ⋅ r/australia
Disturbed a hibernating micro bat while moving wood today. These guys are excellent insect hunters. Check out the skin folds in his wing.9mo ⋅ 5ittingduck ⋅ r/homestead
Some of the different apples ripening at the homestead in North West Tasmania at the moment.5yr ⋅ 5ittingduck ⋅ r/homestead
For world parrot day, I will repost my drunk, spewing, rock stealing green Rosella. Don't eat fermented apples and fly into Windows people ;)11mo ⋅ 5ittingduck ⋅ r/AustralianBirds
I love our little homestead and the beautiful island of Tasmania it's hidden in.2yr ⋅ 5ittingduck ⋅ r/homestead
Dried blueberries. 700g from 4500g and 4 days in the dehydrator, they last vac packed for a long time. Concentrated flavour and fantastic in baking (muffins and blueberry white chocolate cookies are my favourite).2yr ⋅ 5ittingduck ⋅ r/homestead
Apples on one of my trees ready to pick. Apple and blueberry leather on the menu today!2yr ⋅ 5ittingduck ⋅ r/homestead
Tasmanian Ladybirds sheltering in a water tank filter, NW Tasmania, Australia. They are a big help with pest reduction in the garden.2yr ⋅ 5ittingduck ⋅ r/Entomology
First Supercharger opening in Tasmania, the first V3 Supercharger in Australia!3yr ⋅ 5ittingduck ⋅ r/teslamotors
Isolation food. Everything grown and/or produced on site except the spices and olive oil. Tonight's dinner, Potato Nacho's.4yr ⋅ 5ittingduck ⋅ r/homestead
Fresh Jersey milk starting to show a cream line after barely an hour and still warm. Being made into Gouda this morning.2yr ⋅ 5ittingduck ⋅ r/cheesemaking
The thornless blackberries are just starting up! Should be a big crop this year. (Tasmania, Australia)2yr ⋅ 5ittingduck ⋅ r/homestead
Cheese cave nearly full, only room for a few more and I will stop making for the season.4yr ⋅ 5ittingduck ⋅ r/cheesemaking
After a busy weekend got trapped by the Monday morning sun. NW Tasmania Australia.1yr ⋅ 5ittingduck ⋅ r/homestead
[OC] Homemade raw cow's milk cheeses maturing in my 'cheese caves'. (4032 x 3024)4yr ⋅ 5ittingduck ⋅ r/FoodPorn
I have been hard at work repairing the damage to my home made cheese stocks caused by 9 months without a milk supply. The maturing fridges are slowly refilling.3yr ⋅ 5ittingduck ⋅ r/Cheese
Kiwifruit and apple leather (like a fruit roll up but made from just apple and kiwifruit).3yr ⋅ 5ittingduck ⋅ r/homestead
Supplies are running low, but spring grass and milk is nearly here and I can soon top up my fridges!1yr ⋅ 5ittingduck ⋅ r/cheesemaking
Cheese making, there was a lot of interest, so here is a better look at the ageing fridges.6yr ⋅ 5ittingduck ⋅ r/homestead
Wife made me bread and jam today! (Both Gluten free and pretty special!)2yr ⋅ 5ittingduck ⋅ r/homestead
2018 Gouda with Chili and garlic. Not super hot, but very flavourful.3yr ⋅ 5ittingduck ⋅ r/cheesemaking
Here in Australia, the bark and twigs fall off the trees in Spring. I'm raking them up so they are not a fire hazard in summer. To maintain fire buffers we have gravel around the house, then mown law, then these windbreak trees.5mo ⋅ 5ittingduck ⋅ r/homestead
Home made Alpine style cheese, aged in the wardrobe. 3 Months old and ready to go!5yr ⋅ 5ittingduck ⋅ r/homestead
Apples are getting ripe and this apple thief and her family are too fat to fly away. Calder, NW Tasmania.1yr ⋅ 5ittingduck ⋅ r/tasmania
Mashed potato tasting panel. Additives included yoghurt, Vegeta stock powder, garlic, balsamic vinegar, butter, salt olive oil, spice infused milk and pepper. Winner in the comments1yr ⋅ 5ittingduck ⋅ r/homestead
Apple picking time in Tasmania, get out the 12 litre pot and the man sized wooden spoon! (Spoon is hand carved Tasmanian Blackwood, recipe is apple and cinnamon leather).3yr ⋅ 5ittingduck ⋅ r/homestead
Marinated Persian feta, ready for ageing. Experimental one with pickled Cherry Bomb chilli in the middle.2yr ⋅ 5ittingduck ⋅ r/cheesemaking
Grown and shorn next door, then spun, plied and knitted by my lovely wife. She is currently making another even finer.6yr ⋅ 5ittingduck ⋅ r/homestead
3 kg monster Gouda from natural culture with p.s. added for eyes. At 1 month, split for longer age. Going well, lovely texture and creamy.3yr ⋅ 5ittingduck ⋅ r/cheesemaking
Another of my garden helpers. His family keeps the greenhouse pests under control. Although this is Australia, he hasn't tried to kill me yet.3yr ⋅ 5ittingduck ⋅ r/homestead
