Troy and Pascale

Good evening patrons I'd been wanting to share with you what happened to our garden over the last year for a few weeks now but needed to get some urgent work done in it first! It's such a relief to finally have some crops growing once more over Winter and Spring, it was getting a little bit depressi

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

Good morning patrons The time had come to dry up our goats and find them a date so they can have babies in the Spring. Join us this week as we take Dot and Jude to meet Billy, a Nigerian Dwarf buck who will (hopefully) be siring us some new little goatlings in 5 month's time. There's also a visit to

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)