Casalinho

Author: Andrea

  • Happy Easter, Misty’s Kid

    If you’ve been following the goings on in our goat shed you’ll know that Beyonce’s daughter, Misty is called Mistletoe because she was born at Christmastime. Misty has now continued the tradition by successfully delivering her own first baby at Easter. Welcome to the world, little one. Horny has now reached the stage of pregnancy more »

  • Kylie’s Kids

    In the manner of goats everywhere, Kylie has again surprised us. Horny and Misty have been wandering around like overstuffed sofas for weeks and weeks, but Kylie just started looking a little more solid than normal about ten days ago. I’d realised she was pregnant, obviously, but not appreciated quite how far along she was. more »

  • Book up for a Summer Permaculture Design Course PDC

    So our summer schedule of courses is now live, and we’re taking bookings. This year we’re offering a choice of three Permaculture Design Courses, all certified by the UK Permaculture Association and taught by Josh Gomez. They’re differing lengths, so there should be one to suit everyone. This year, for the first time and at more »

  • Hello Billy

        This handsome young chap is our new Billy goat. He’s been with us for about three weeks, and he’s just now starting to settle in and hold his own with the ladies.  He’s terribly nervous of me, but when he first arrived I housed him with our least threatening goat, Branquinha, who he’s become more »

  • Compost Illustrated

      This photo was taken inside our animal shed, looking down through their outside run towards the veg garden. I picked it out to write about individually as I thought it illustrated our composting system in operation so eloquently. As I’ve written about elsewhere, our composting system starts off in this outside run. All our household more »

  • Ferrocement Tank

    Jeroen spent last weekend at Quinta do Luzio in Sintra, working on a ferrocement tank. We’re hoping to make our own here at Casalinho during the Extended Permaculture Design Course we’ll be running 19th June – 20th July. Check out our courses page for full details.    

  • A Visitor’s Perspective – Sam Hangs with Beyonce

    This is part of a series of posts where we ask one of our volunteers or visitors to say a few words about their stay. Sam worked with us this summer, and these are his reflections.  I’d never had to chase a goat before. Especially not one hell-bent on using his new found freedom to more »

  • Ruptured Pipe Causes Rio Ceira Flooding

    I was planning on posting more photographs of around the farm today, but yesterday morning a water carrying tunnel connecting the dams of Santa Luzia and Alto Ceira near to us broke, causing a torrent of water to come crashing out. The resultant flooding, from the ruptured tunnel and from the subsequent emergency lowering of more »

  • Our Week in Pictures: 31st January 2015

    Our round up of what we’ve been working on at Casalinho, our developing permaculture project in central Portugal. With our first volunteers of 2015 now fully on board, we’ve been hard at work planting the new trees which I talked about last week. Now the mulberries and walnuts are in we are working on the oaks. more »

  • Our Week in Pictures: 14th January 2015

    Our round up of what we’ve been working on at Casalinho, our developing permaculture project in central Portugal. Our first volunteers of 2015 are due to join us any day now, and we’re looking forward to getting some old projects finished and some new ones on the go. Here are some photos to give you more »