Life on Red Hill - Red Hill Collective

Life on Red Hill - Red Hill Collective We’re a family of four (+ a few extras along the way) raising beef in the red dirt of North Queensland.

Started from scratch, had some wins and some not-so-great days, and we’re here to share the laughs along the way.

Fingers crossed it’s third time lucky for this girl. She has had two beautiful calves over the past couple of years but...
18/09/2026

Fingers crossed it’s third time lucky for this girl. She has had two beautiful calves over the past couple of years but they’ve both died mysteriously. Her first one was a few weeks old and got sick and then died. But because shes a lovely cow with a beautiful nature we gave her a second chance. Her second calf was a few months old and thriving when we found him dead. But about a month before he died she’d adopted an orphan calf and was doing a great job of raising them both so she stayed in the mob to raise the other one. We decided to give her one last chance and she’s just produced this adorable little heifer (I have a thing for pink noses 😂), so I really hope all goes well for both of their sakes

12/09/2026

Waiting waiting waiting for Rousie to go CHOMP but I think she was just happy to stand in his shadow for a while and cool down. She went away to tuck another staying one back in the mob and when she came old mate didn’t want to provide shade so got sassy…. Which he immediately regretted 😂

Twinnies! These girls were born at the beginning of the year, and mum, a young first calf heifer herself has done a marv...
10/09/2026

Twinnies! These girls were born at the beginning of the year, and mum, a young first calf heifer herself has done a marvellous job of raising them without falling into very poor condition herself. The twinnies have eartags that say Twin A & Twin B so that since they were newborns we’ve been able to keep a very close eye on them and their mum, so if anyone started doing it too tough we could pull them out for better care. They’re a little bit small for their age (understandably) but will be weaned in the coming weeks in the next round of weaning. It’s not overly common to see twins raised well in our kind of system, so all three of them have done a great job.

The emu babies are hatching! Just saw our first batch of the season. Very hard to see but think there were only five or ...
09/09/2026

The emu babies are hatching! Just saw our first batch of the season. Very hard to see but think there were only five or so. Be interesting to see what others hatch to see if it’s going to be a bigger than normal season, but five looks more average. Can’t call it on just one brood though

In case you missed it… we have a website!redhillcollective.com.auI did announce it a few months ago, and then uni rather...
04/09/2026

In case you missed it… we have a website!

redhillcollective.com.au

I did announce it a few months ago, and then uni rather rudely took over my life and I haven’t actually reminded anyone since. 😂

There’s plenty to have a stickybeak at — what we’re doing, what we can help with, and a bit more about how Red Hill Collective came about.

We’ve also got a newsletter, where we’ll share some of the longer stories, useful bits and pieces, things we’re working on and the occasional stuff that doesn’t make it onto Facebook.

If you’d like to get it, just scroll down a little way on the home page and you’ll find the sign-up.

Well well well, what do we have here? The black orchids (late Sept-mid Oct flowering) are going off their chops. This bi...
03/09/2026

Well well well, what do we have here? The black orchids (late Sept-mid Oct flowering) are going off their chops. This big beauty is about 30m off the road on the paddock where the cows are so I detoured and it did not disappoint! It smells divine 😍. Will have to go find the leopard woods tomorrow and check their flower status. One thing that is conspicuous by its absence are the big storm birds/channel billed cuckoos. I’m not too surprised though because I find they come when the cold weather leaves and we’re still getting down to 6-9° every morning. The pallid cuckoo has arrived a few weeks ago but because they’re so discreet compared to the channel billed and eastern koel I’ve never taken much notice of them. But now I’m confident on their call I’ll certainly start taking note. Curiouser and curiouser!

Probably should have checked the photo quality before driving away 😂, but the white Bauhinia are flowering now, about 6-...
31/08/2026

Probably should have checked the photo quality before driving away 😂, but the white Bauhinia are flowering now, about 6-8 weeks early, just like I said a few days ago the red Bauhinias and white wood were also flowering early. And I thought what if…. They don’t flower ### amount of weeks before rain, but ###x amount of weeks/months AFTER rain seeing as it stopped raining in early March? But then I thought back to last year when it was still raining in April, and all these guys started flowering 4-6 weeks early last year and then the rain came early. So who knows? I mostly just post this for my own records, but maybe you all find it interesting too?

27/08/2026

No dirt to grow cauliflowers behind this one’s ears! Did anyone else’s mother tell them to clean behind their ears so cauliflowers don’t grow or was a bit of a grot when I was little? Anyhoo, this little one has had a THOROUGH cleaning

Always love a bit of “red sky in the morning”. It’s been a funny old season, the rain cut out early, and we’ve had no wi...
25/08/2026

Always love a bit of “red sky in the morning”. It’s been a funny old season, the rain cut out early, and we’ve had no winter rain (not that we get much but a couple of inches is not unusual). But some of the red Bauhinia (usually Nov-Dec flower) are flowering and some of whitewood (usually Oct-Nov) are too. We can’t really expect any rain to Mid-Jan at the earliest but it would be welcome!

This leaky weir is kicking some goals! You can’t quite see it properly but there’s a gabion of rocks rolled in netting a...
25/08/2026

This leaky weir is kicking some goals! You can’t quite see it properly but there’s a gabion of rocks rolled in netting and held across a small gully head with those two stakes. It’s been there for a few years now and the grass growing directly upstream of it is testament to how much it’s slowing down the water and holding sediment up

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