Self-sufficient Property Tour in Beautiful, Tropical, Far North Queensland, Australia 🌴🐓🐔🤠☀️

We Did It! And we are so glad we did!
This is our own little tropical paradise!
We moved from the big city to a rural acreage in the tropics to chill out and become more self-sufficient.
Tropical fruit trees, veggie garden, chickens and beautiful fresh "super" eggs daily.
Come for the tour and see what we've achieved in just 2 years and 3 months!
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[@johannahmaza3705]

YAH!!! So happy to finally find a channel about growing food and raising chickens in the tropics. Love it! We live in FNQ and elated to find relevant channel and tips. Thank you 🙂

[@vintagefoodfarm]

That is awesome!!!! 🥰 We are so lucky to live up here!! 😊 Hope you enjoy the videos! Have a great rest of the day! Love it when locals follow🥰🥰🥰

[@JL-yt5hy]

when growing a new fruit tree dig a whole 5-6 times the size of the pot, fill it with compost, aged manure, plant matter then plant.😀

[@vintagefoodfarm]

Nice! thanks!!! 😁😁😁👍

[@azlvca]

You have an awesome yard full of so many Trees!!! How about adding some Pakistani Mulberry,Figs,Pomegranate and some super food like Moringa and barbados cherry they will do so good in your tropical yard…love the videos ❤❤❤

[@vintagefoodfarm]

Thanks!! So glad you like it!!!! 😊We have Moringa and figs and but I will hunt down the rest!!! 😁Thank you so much for the recommendations!!! It very cool you like the videos too!!!🥰

[@ggverity7632]

Great video, thanks for showing us around.

[@vintagefoodfarm]

Our pleasure!!!😁 So happy you enjoyed it!!!

[@hycart7804]

Just found your channel, thank God. You have rekindled my drive to get going and so much useful info. Dint know chooks liked bananas. We live top end of Sunshine coast but might as well be FNQ. You fill a big hole in the Top end Aussie gardener slot. Thank you.

[@vintagefoodfarm]

Thanks so much!!! So happy you are liking the channel😁👍You should be able to grow everything we do😊👍That's why we started the channel. We couldn't find what we wanted when we started 😁

[@BackHomeFromTheStates]

I've always messed with that sensitive weeds when I was young. Specially when I was mad at bad mouth people and wanted to shut them off 😁🤭

[@vintagefoodfarm]

hahaha!! Good idea! 😂

[@BackHomeFromTheStates]

@@vintagefoodfarm it worked everytimes. 🤣

[@lawrancechan170]

What a beautiful property you got there...

[@vintagefoodfarm]

Thank you!!! Hopefully it survives cyclone Jasper that is about to cross the coast😨🥰

[@patmartin7907]

Hi Deb & Tim just found you channel absolutely awesome love how your growing so much on your block.My family and I are in Sydney we are over the cost of living here we are planning a move to a homestead .we have been looking in the Byron area but your videos have got me thinking.I grew up on a farm I miss the space thanks for sharing the awesome videos all the best Pat

[@vintagefoodfarm]

Hi Pat! That is awesome!!! We moved here from Sydney and it is the best thing we ever did!!! Loving it 🥰😁What ever you decide good luck and have fun!!! 😁

[@frankchristie7193]

Beautiful property guys 👍

[@vintagefoodfarm]

Thank you!!! 😁👍

[@irinitsoulfas833]

Just found your channel! Love your content! I live in NT Darwin and hopefully in the near future will be able to get some land , your content really helps with what we can grow in our humid climate ☺️thank you so much ! 😊

[@Jules_Jules]

Beautiful block, Deb! A lot of work you and Tim have done. Love it!!

[@vintagefoodfarm]

Thanks so much!🥰Have a great day!!!

[@jtoot6391]

Wow! Beautiful!

[@vintagefoodfarm]

Thank you! 😊 We love it!

[@bigreg]

once again..just an amazing video and lifestyle demo..i love it..thank you

[@vintagefoodfarm]

Thanks bigred! So happy you enjoyed it! 🤠

[@courtneynewey]

OMG can I come live with you!

[@vintagefoodfarm]

hahaha!!! You are funny!!! 🤣🤠

[@elizabethmenmuir4679]

What a beautiful place to live, wow!

[@vintagefoodfarm]

Pretty cool hey 🤠😁👍

[@Sinalove1]

Love your videos! Especially your passion for growing stuff - awesome.

[@vintagefoodfarm]

Thanks Sinalove1 🤠I am so glad to hear you like them! Have a great day😁

[@wendyneylon4377]

Thanks for the tour. You are certainly creating a beautiful life for yourselves and your chooks. I live in the Perth hills so a very different climate to yours but also on 3 acres and also trying to be as self sufficient as possible for fruit and vege. ❤️

[@vintagefoodfarm]

Pleasure Wendy! So glad you enjoyed it!🤠Wow that sounds amazing! Never been there but I just googled Perth Hills and it is stunning! We are both very lucky! 😁Have a great Day 😊

[@bobstar8773]

Hi I’m a new subscriber, love you videos…I’m in Darwin..so tropical too, great to see others with the same environment 🙌

[@vintagefoodfarm]

Welcome!!!! I'm so glad you are enjoying the videos! We love Darwin! Very similar growing conditions🤠

[@dreamweaver4543]

Hello. I love watching your show. We are going to Hoi Ann soon as well. I've been there before and loved it. I am skipping the main towns this time round but visiting Hoi An again. One of the places you might enjoy or might have already been too is Hoi An Cooking Class at Tra Que vegetable/herb village. My brother has been there a couple times and we are planning to go too. There is a restaurant near there Kumquat BBQ Restaurant that uses herbs and vegetables from the village. We love it and eat there several times while visiting. Looking forward to seeing your trip footage.

[@vintagefoodfarm]

Oh Wow! We have been to the herb village but will be going back for sure! We will definitely try the Kumquat BBQ Restaurant!!! Thankyou so much dreamweaver4543! That is going to be the best video eva! 🤠 😁

[@AGreenPatch]

So cool! Thanks for sharing :)

[@vintagefoodfarm]

Pleasure! 🤠

[@christopheriluffi5554]

Fresh subscriber! Absolutly in love with the content so far! I would love to know what if anything would be good to sow now onwards. Didnt consider the change of seasons comingin cairns from victoria. 😅

[@vintagefoodfarm]

Hi! So glad you are enjoying the channel!!!! 🤠Lol.... didn't consider the change of seasons 😂Plant a heap of herbs especially spring onions (just use the bottoms from the supermarket) , cherry tomatoes because they will take you a good way into the wet season. And the tropical stuff that will set you up for life- Winged beans, cucamelons, abika, longevity spinach, tree lettuce, snake beans, ginger, tumeric, galangal, chillies, Okinawa spinach, sweet potatoes, lemongrass, papaya (skybury papaya seeds from the papaya at the markets) ...tired yet???😂 .......Limberlost nursery has a lot of these and once you have them growing they are either perennial or self seeding. Bunnings has a heap of herbs and cherry tomatoes 🤠Good luck and enjoy paradise!!!! Have a great day!😁🌴

[@christopheriluffi5554]

@vintagefoodfarm if you ever have a seedling sale and a garden tour, I would love to see those videos progressively or in person. I have this dream of growing my own edible garden since the beginning of covid. My current depression has me struggling to get out and grow. But the sun rises and sets and so I try and try again. Thank you for you response and your videos.

[@vintagefoodfarm]

Pleasure! Take care 🤠

[@Adrian-qb1tp]

Love watching what your doing with your amazing garden, reminds me so much of the Philippines which is where my wife is from. Have you tried eating the banana flower? its absolutely amazing to eat. The only fruit I would suggest you try is the Rambutan (hairy balls as I call them) such an amazing fruit to eat. That tool board to very old school and is called a shadow board. Keep up your great work both of you and stay safe.

[@vintagefoodfarm]

Hi Adrian! So glad you like the videos!!! Yes we eat banana flower and love it! We leant how to eat it in Vietnam and Cambodia. The chickens love them too lol 😁We love Rambutans but we haven't found a tree yet .The are such a yummy fruit. Thank you so much for telling us about the shadow board! That is so good to know and makes a lot of sense🤠We really want to go to the Philippines after our next holiday and see some farms and markets (and eat a lot of food😋). We have calamansi's and moringa trees so we want to see more ways to eat them. We do a marinade of calamansi and soy sauce that a Pilipino friend told me how to make and we cant get enough of it. Anyway thanks for saying hi. Have a great day and thanks heaps 😁

[@bobstar8773]

How do you use the banana flowers to eat?

[@Adrian-qb1tp]

@@bobstar8773 treat them like any sort of vegetables, in the Philippines they cook them in coconut milk, it's all very nice and healthy

[@richardsilver98]

Hello, I'm happy to have found your channel and look forward to watching some more of your content. Your property looks lush, green, and very productive. Very different to our cool temperate climate here in Victoria, which can be equally productive but in different ways. You have perhaps answered this in one of your vids but do you encounter pythons often?

[@vintagefoodfarm]

Hi Richard! Yes we get massive pythons all the time! In the wet season once a week.🫤🤠 Link- kzbin.infov-6IXGqW-7g?feature=share We know a really awesome snake catcher called Claude that lives really close! You wouldn't believe it but we are getting used to them lol. Locals up here say "it's JUST a python!" You are so right in saying that everywhere can be productive in its own style! So glad you are enjoying the videos and thanks for saying hi! I think I need to do a video on pythons one day🤠

[@richardsilver98]

@@vintagefoodfarm yep, I was pretty certain you would get pythons and all power to you for becoming accustomed to them. We get our share of eastern brown snakes but, so far, my experience is that given any opportunity to do so they will move completely out of the way, probably before we even notice. Still....😳

[@Mumbaikar4ever]

Lovely, its my dream, moving from uk, but not sure how safe it is in far north queensland, and how far I need to be to be able to grow food all year around for self suffiency.. can you give an idea where to look for properties like yours!

[@vintagefoodfarm]

Hi gayatrigosavi2008! You wouldn't need to come up this far. There are people as low as Mackay growing tropical food all year. There is still the same dangers though like cyclones and pythons lol. There are heaps of cool properties in land from Cairns if you feel like living the dream🤠 Thanks so much for saying hi! Have a great day 😁

[@sbkpt2497]

what is the name of your of phone ? pictures so good

[@vintagefoodfarm]

Thank you!!! It's a GoPro😁Have a great day!!!

[@sbkpt2497]

is it Go Bro max?@@vintagefoodfarm

[@vintagefoodfarm]

Gopro Hero 11😁🎥

[@sbkpt2497]

@@vintagefoodfarm thank you from Thailand

[@vintagefoodfarm]

Hello Thailand!!!🥰

[@jamiecampbell4666]

Out of interest how do you deal with snakes and chickens

[@vintagefoodfarm]

Hi Jamie! Wow! That would make a great video! Thanks! 🤠 Firstly the snake catchers call Speewah "the land of the giants!!!" because we have so many huge pythons 😭🐍 We have snake proof coops that we carefully check each night before we lock the chickens up. We find the snakes come in during the day and hide in the coop waiting until night when they strike. We have had 3 pythons and 1 brown tree snake in or on the coop. The most effective thing we have is an electric fence around the small run that we turn on each night. For the first year or so we had no snakes in the coop and then the electric fence broke and we had 4 in a few months. We have now fixed the electric fence again and no snakes so far 🤞🏻 The other thing we do is free range which might seem more dangerous but if there is a snake there is room for the chickens to get away and the snake couldn't kill all the chickens at once. A snake will kill as many chickens as it can in anticipation to coming back for the rest once it's digested the ones it's eating (I believe). We have lost some guineafowl keets to snakes when the electric fence was down but we haven't lost any chickens yet. We also have guinea fowl which are supposed to deter snakes but I can't be sure either way if they do. What the guineas do do is alert you that there is something there like a hawk, snake, goanna etc. by screaming and putting on a loud show. When the chickens hear the guineas go off they run for cover and we know there is something wrong. When we have had a snake on or near the coop we call our snake catcher, Claude, who will come and relocate it. Also limit the number of hidey holes in and around the coop 😁 Hope that all makes sense! Have a great day 🤠Look out for a video on chickens and snakes 😁

[@jamiecampbell4666]

Thankyou so much , i found this very informative hope to see that video soon😂🎉

[@marisaphoenix1893]

How many acres are you on?

[@vintagefoodfarm]

Hi! 🤠3.2 acres but only about 2 acres is cleared and the rest is bush😁

[@vintagefoodfarm]

hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!

[@Relaxation8168]

shy weed = Mimosa plant en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimosa_pudica

[@vintagefoodfarm]

You are the best!!! thank you so much!! 😁