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Spring at Winterwood Farm has bought some lovely warm weather and quite a few babies! We've had foals, puppies and human babies and our hands and hearts are certainly full! Another new member of th...

We've made some progress over the last six months at Winterwood Farm.Our two 20x25 grass arenas are almost complete. We've chosen grass because grass is the best surface for rehabilitating horses. We'...

Well, as you all know, I have my amazing Lola and we have been working together and with the aid of my gorgeous guy dog, Woody. We do quite a lot of training by myself which is coming along nicely! As...

This month at Winterwood has been very busy! The recent cooler weather has allowed more time outside and we've started construction on our arena. We do a large majority of the work ourselves, with ...

In June we started building our covered arena. It is a 62m x 24m indoor arena with one end wall enclosed to accommodate the site's fall.  We designed the arena cover to be low laying in the lan...

Stage 1 The site office, which will become a tack shed and lunch room after project completion.Ready for installation of solar system, water tank etc. the whole property will be off grid, zero emissi...

Hilwert L. Ster the Friesian stallion has arrived at Winterwood Farm! He is a seventeen year old pure Friesian stallion and one of the first to be imported in to Australia.  Hilwert has come f...

Swampy meadows are a near extinct ecosystem in many water ways. Winter wood farm is at the head catchment for a small water way that leads to the Windburndale rivulet approx 20 kilometres away. The...

In August we laid the cement slab for the stable block. ...

A sneak peak at the first concept drawings for the off grid house at Winterwood. More to come as we develop the ideas. Below, is Jeremy Edler installing the flue for the new office. Drainage and...

Winter can be a challenge and this winter is proving to be a cold, wet and miserable one! Bathurst located in the Central Tablelands in NSW Australia, is generally dry in winter, has crisp sunny day...

This week 3 new 30,000 litre water tanks have arrived. 2 will act as header tanks on the highest part of the property and the 3rd will be located next to the pipeline. The pipeline is a historic piece...

All systems are go with our arena at Winterwood Farm! We had to use a laser level bobcat which enabled the sand surface to be exactly level to with a 1% fall to the southern end of the arena. The aren...

This week on Winterwood Farm we have taken delivery of our 50hp Kubota tractor which came with a 3 in 1 front end loader and a mulching mower. The Mulching mower of flail mower can handle heavy grass...

April at Winterwood Farm has been filled with amazing weather and an great opportunity to put some time and work in to the off-grid facilties. Living 'off-grid' generally refers to not utilising publi...

This week at Winterwood we have taken delivery of a 20 foot shipping container to act as our storage shed, site shed, tack room and lunch room. Cath's son Jeremy, who very handily is a carpenter/cabin...

Winterwood Farm will be the new rural home of McDowells Herbal’s equestrian, permaculture and sustainable living centres. The recently purchased (June 2018) farm is 200 acres of loamy granite s...

This week at Winterwood we have fitted out the container as a temporary tack and storage shed and set up a small tank with solar 12v pump so we have some water to mix up horse feed etc. All the pip...

There is space on Winterwood Farm dedicated to kangaroos and wildlife. All the land around Winterwood is agricultural land and quite a few farmers shoot kangaroos. They do this in the belief that kan...

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