Log
Work varies day by day but we work 7 days a week from 7 am to 8 pm. Wake up at 6 am bedtime 10-11 pm. I haven’t logged a lot of random work done in smaller quantities (under 30 min) or any time I’ve spent reading or blogging.
| Week | Weekly Activity | Hours | Cumulative hours | |
| Week 1 | General farm work | 25 | ||
| Dairy | 25 | |||
| 50 | ||||
| Week 2 | General farm work | 25 | ||
| Dairy | 25 | |||
| Data entry at Terrrace Edge Vineyard | 5 | |||
| 105 | ||||
| Week 3/4 | General work | 15 | ||
| Dairy | 25 | |||
| Forage 2017 prep and work | 8 | |||
| Weeding | 8 | |||
| Sowing seeds in the greehouse | 3 | |||
| Cheesemaking | 6 | |||
| Cooking | 7 | |||
| Food processing (ie. cooking jam, shelling peas, stoning plums/apricots/cherries) | 15 | |||
| Foraging for wild plums | 2 | |||
| Fromagerie orientation | 45 min | |||
| Fromagerie work making cheese | 2 | |||
| Cracking nuts, collecting shallots and a hare from Tony | 30 min | |||
| Painting/writing in Christchurch botanical gardens | 2 | |||
| Cheese and meat tasting in Christchurch | 20 min | |||
| Native plant research | 30 min | |||
| Geography lesson | 30 min | |||
| Dinner preparation | 1 | |||
| Sowing seeds | 1 | |||
| Weeding the front garden | 6 | |||
| 208 | ||||
| February | 1- Drawing labels/herb research | 1 | ||
| Fecal egg counts/distributing medicine | 3 | |||
| Dairy work/feeding | 4 | |||
| Baking | 30min | |||
| 2- Cooking jam | 1 | |||
| Sowing seeds | 1 | |||
| Harvesting garlic | 45 min | |||
| Dairy work/feeding | 4 | |||
| Drawing labels | 20 min | |||
| 3- Dairy/feeding | 4 | |||
| Watering | 20 min | |||
| Fruit processing | 2 | |||
| Chasing chicken | 20 min | |||
| Baking | 1 | |||
| Blogging | 45 min | |||
| 4- Dairy/feeding | 3.5 | |||
| Jam | 3.5 | |||
| Foraging | 15 min | |||
| Motonau beach exploring!! | ||||
| 5- Dairy/feeding | 4 | |||
| Watering | 20 min | |||
| Garlic cleaning/tying | 1.5 | |||
| Compost digging/weed management | 1.5 | |||
| 6- Superbowl partying | ||||
| Dairy/feeding | 4 | |||
| Trap building to catch wild animal for wild food festival | 2 | |||
| 7- Dairy/feeding | 4 | |||
| Trap building/fixing | 1.5 | |||
| Tomato pruning | 20 min | |||
| Weeding | 30 min | |||
| Seed saving | 1.5 | 255.5 | ||
| 8- Dairy/feeding | 4 | |||
| Weeding | 1 | |||
| Sowing seeds | 1 | |||
| Pruning plants in greenhouses | 1 | |||
| Bottling olives | 15 min | |||
| Harvesting fruit/removing netting | 20 min | |||
| Orientating Belgian visitors | 45 min | |||
| 9- Dairy/feeding | 4 | |||
| Shoveling compost/making raised beds | 1 | |||
| Planting seeds | 1.5 | |||
| 10- Dairy/feeding | 4 | |||
| Cooking | 1.5 | |||
| Cleaning house | 2.5 | |||
| 11- Dairy/feeding | 4 | |||
| Baking | 2 | |||
| Planting seedlings | 1.5 | |||
| 12- Dairy/feeding | 4 | |||
| Orienting newcomer | 2 | |||
| Tomato and melon pruning in greenhouses | 30 | |||
| Cooking | 1 | |||
| 13- Dairy/feeding | 4 | |||
| Organizing shed | 5 | |||
| Preparation for trip around the south island | 295 | |||
| 14- Left on holiday!! | ||||
| Otago museum | 3 | |||
| Invercargill museum | 2 | |||
| South Otago museum | 3 | |||
| 23- Returned home | ||||
| Watering | 1 | |||
| Aided in the slaughter and butchering of Offallo the pig | 6 | |||
| Feeding | 1 | |||
| 24- Watering | 1 | |||
| Fecal testing demonstration | 45 min | |||
| Cooking dinner/ baking | 3.5 | |||
| Mixing cement/ building brick wall and clay wall | 1.5 | |||
| Collecting dried herbs/ drying herbs | 1 | |||
| Feeding | 1 | |||
| 25- Watering | 1 | |||
| Clay plastering | 2 | |||
| Feeding | 1 | |||
| Weeding | 1 | |||
| 26-Watering | 1 | |||
| Seedling transplanting | 1 | |||
| Wool work | 2.5 | |||
| Feeding | 1 | |||
| 27- Watering | 1 | |||
| Weeding | 1 | |||
| Clay plastering | 1.5 | |||
| Cooking | 1 | |||
| Blogging | 1.5 | |||
| Butchering Bella the lamb/ tanning her hide | 1.5 | |||
| Feeding | 1 | |||
| 28- Watering | 1 | |||
| Weeding | 2 | |||
| Apple cutting and pressing | 1.5 | |||
| March | 1- Watering | 1 | ||
| Cooking | 2 | |||
| Shoveling compost | 2 | |||
| Feeding | 1 | |||
| 2- Watering | 1 | |||
| Garden planning | 2 | |||
| Weeding | 4 | |||
| Cooking | 1.5 | |||
| Feeding | 1 | |||
| Sheepskin tanning | 1 | 363.75 | ||
| 3- Watering | 1 | |||
| Feeding | 1 | |||
| Weeding in the strip field | 2 | |||
| Shelling beans | 30 min | |||
| 4- Watering | 1 | |||
| Feeding | 1 | |||
| Baking | 1.5 | |||
| Weeding by polytunnel | 4 | |||
| Cleaning house | 1 | |||
| 5- Watering/feeding | 2 | |||
| Building outdoor kitchen wall | 3.5 | |||
| Tying fronds for oven | 30 min | |||
| 6- Watering | 1 | |||
| Feeding | 1 | |||
| Transplanting seedlings | 1 | |||
| 7- Watering | 1 | |||
| Feeding | 1 | |||
| Baking | 3 | |||
| Weeding | 1 | |||
| 8- Watering | 1 | |||
| Feeding | 1 | |||
| Fecal egg testing | 45 min | |||
| 9- Watering | 1 | 399 | ||
| Feeding | 1 | |||
| Tying fronds | 1 | |||
| Sowing seeds | 1 | |||
| Making marmalade | 30 min | |||
| 10- Watering | 1.5 | |||
| Feeding | 1 | |||
| Cooking | 3 | |||
| 11- Watering | 1.5 | |||
| Feeding | 1 | |||
| Constructing sign blocks | 1 | |||
| Weeding | 30 min | |||
| Cooking | 20 min | |||