Troy and Pascale

Well, we've almost finished putting all of our pigs into the freezer, we're pulling out 2 hams from the salt box and one from the brine bin tomorrow and firing up the smoker for the bacon and trotters on the weekend. This round of pig processing we saved most of the back fat and skin so I could make

Good morning patrons With some cooler weather finally here it was time to take care of our exploding chicken population. We weren't complaining as there are only 2 chickens left in our freezer since we processed 40 meat birds this time last year. I cannot believe it has been a whole year since we pr

Join me in the kitchen for a typical week of summertime meals at the Ramshackle Ranch. I really enjoyed putting together this video that showcases all our delicious homegrown and local produce. Do let me know if you enjoyed it and want to see more episodes like this in the future, I love sharing our

The ocean was calling us and some grandparents were demanding more quality time with their granddaughter, so there was nothing for it but to drive the 2 hours south to Denmark to visit my parents, borrow their farm ute and 4WD to a remote beach. Reminiscent of our sailing adventures (minus the saili

Dear patrons Join us this week for a meander through our lives on the farm over the last few months since Constance has been around. We hope you enjoy the slow and simple pace which is pretty representative of how we have been living these days. Whilst we both find being underwater relaxing (and Con

Dearest patrons It is with great pleasure that we share with you the birth story of our beautiful daughter Constance. Love and gratitude Troy and Pascale The Best Thing We've Ever Done - Free Range Homestead Ep 54 (YouTube)

Hello everyone This week we take you with us as we meet the farmers of the delicious grass fed beef that currently fills our freezer. Situated about 20 minutes south of us here in Dingup, Lake Janis Farm is a little slice of paradise. It was such a pleasure to meet Dean and Julia Ryan to hear about

Hello lovely patrons Maximising water run off to the dam on the farm was something we really wanted to improve this year. Thanks to the help of our tractor, our friend's grader and some ancient technology, Troy built us a custom diversion ditch on contour this Autumn to capture the water that was fr

Hi to everybody out there! Let us start by saying thank you for your patience this week. It's an incredibly busy time for us, but we think we are over the hump. Troy successfully completed another lap around the sun and we managed to stow away another six months worth of food! This episode is in rea

In the alternative farming scene, it's unlikely for anyone to have not heard of Joel Salatin or have been influenced by his larger than life personality. Here in our cozy corner of South-Western Australia, we were fortunate enough to meet another two farmers who are carving out a place for themselve

Hello beautiful people Join us this week for a 2 part video at the Ramshackle Ranch. The first is a tour of our epic winter garden. We are absolutely amazed by the incredible results we've had over the last 3 months. We're loving the Kohlrabi. If you have any good recipes with this vegetable do let

Good morning patrons Inspired by new friends and pastured poultry farmers Jeff and Michelle, we took delivery of 50 Ross birds at the end of Summer to have a go at raising our vey own chicken for the table. Whilst it wasn't necessarily a money saving process, we believe you cannot put a price on the

Good evening patrons This week we share with you the joy of our bountiful Summer harvests on the Ramshackle Ranch. An unexpected outbreak of spider mites at the end of Summer destroys some of our crops but we were grateful that most of the plants were healthy enough to survive the onslaught. We both

Good evening everybody This week we share with you the story, touched upon in last week's episode, of our sick piglets and our efforts to save their lives. Losing a couple of piglets whilst in our care was a hard learning experience for us both but we felt like intervention and removal from their mo

Dearest patrons Join us for a chat in the bush whilst we tell of some sad and difficult times we've had this week. We never realised how attached we'd become to our animals when we took on this responsibility. It's been an incredible learning experience but also very emotionally draining. Of course

Good afternoon patrons We hope you all had a wonderful Easter break with family and friends. We had the pleasure of seeing both our immediate families and plying the nieces and nephews with plenty of chocolate before handing them back to their parents! Please enjoy our latest video where we take you

Good morning everyone We hope this upload finds you all happy and well. Join us this week as we share with you our trials and tribulations over the last couple of months with all of our feathered creatures on the Ramshackle Ranch. We wonder if anyone else has used their drone to herd geese or could

Good morning patrons We hope our latest upload finds you all well. One of the joys of Summer on the farm has been tending to and enjoying some delicious harvests from our garden. This week join Troy and I as we show you some more of our garden including our slightly out of control zucchini and pumpk