Angus cattle
Our most deliberate enterprise, and the one likely to take up more of this farm over time. There's a whole page on it.
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The Farm
A property in the Central West, worked properly.
Cheshire Park sits in the Central West of New South Wales — country that swings from frost to drought and back, and asks a fair bit of anything trying to make a living from it.
Cheshire Park is a family-run farm, and it's diversified because that's honestly how it grew — not because of a five-year plan drawn up on day one. We keep Angus cattle, run sheep, manage a flock of heritage poultry, and still lean on a couple of horses for the jobs a bike or a ute can't do. What sits alongside those enterprises has changed over time, and it'll keep changing. That's not a weakness in the model; it's the model.
We're not going to publish a running tally of numbers on this page — stock counts, paddock sizes, production figures. Not because it's a secret, but because those figures move constantly and a website is a poor place to keep them current. What we can tell you is simpler and more durable: this is a working farm, it's run by the people who live on it, and the animals and the land come before the spreadsheet.
What's here
The enterprises, as they stand today.
Sheep
A steady part of the farm, moved between paddocks as the season and the grass dictate rather than a fixed rotation.
Heritage poultry
Hens, ducks, and whatever else has found its way into the coop. Currently one of the liveliest corners of the farm, and Instagram knows it.
Working animals
Horses, and the jobs that still need them.
Some parts of running stock on this country are still best done from the saddle. We keep a small number of horses for exactly that — moving mobs, checking fences, and getting into corners the vehicles can't reach. They're worked, not ornamental.
The country
Weather runs this place, not us.
The Central West doesn't do gentle seasons. Dry spells test the paddocks, frosts test everything else, and a good season is treated as exactly that — good, not guaranteed. We plan around the land rather than expecting it to fall in line, and most of the real decisions on this farm start with what the weather's just done or is about to do.
Where this is headed
A farm that keeps changing shape, on purpose.
Some of what's on this page today may look different in a year. That's the point of building this gradually rather than presenting it as finished.