A 'Serious' start

Back at home again, a 'serious' start has been made on clearing the site for the Trainbarn.  We've had some good rain again recently so the soil is really moist, which makes it a lot easier to dig out the scrub, complete with roots, so that it won't grow up again.  If I can keep going at this rate I'll have it cleared in about a month, which is sooner than expected.

A lot of what I'm digging out is scrubby Tea Tree, of the variety Leptospermum.  We have recently become aware that this is fantastic for bees to make honey from, and is similar to, but reportedly better than, the New Zealand Manuka honey, which is becoming quite well known.  We do intend to keep bees here on Whistlestop, and to sell our Jellybush Honey, so now I'm feeling slightly guilty each time I dig out a tea-tree!!  Ok, there are about 100 more acres of tea-trees for the bees to do their best with..................

I use Fergie to pull out the bigger tea-trees and stumps.  Simply chain said tree to the drawbar, select 'up' with the three point linkage control, and voila, out comes the tea tree!  It's that simple!  Would be quicker and easier with one person on Fergie and one person on the 'chain-gang', but it's a very effective way of getting them out cleanly.

It's now warm enough to venture outside after a very heavy frost last night, so, back to it!!  Lovely clear blue-sky days at the moment.