Casalinho

Category: A Visitor’s Perspective

  • Winter hay

    We’ve been working on storing winter hay and bedding today, taking advantage of glorious sun to dry it. With goats, pigs and sheep as well as poultry, we’re needing to up production this year.

  • Vietnamese Pot Belly Pigs

    New arrivals to the farm yesterday, a lovely little family of Vietnamese pot belly pigs. Two of the the sweetest piglets you ever saw, who sleep on top of Mum and Dad in a big snoring heap! More photos to come when they get to trust me a little more!

  • Reasons to be Cheerful: Caterpillar on Lupin

      I’m afraid I’ve no idea what sort of caterpillar this is, but what an amazing colour!    

  • Busy Day in the Garden

      Anyone who’s spent time with us will know how much time we spend fighting to keep our rotovators working. Here’s a rare shot of one in action! Creating a new kitchen garden bed near the house.     Connor is planting pumpkin seedlings along the edge of this raised bed. Cardoon for cheesemaking and more »

  • PDC designs – Summer 2016

    With our 2017 Permaculture Design Courses coming up soon, time to share the fabulous designs created by last year’s participants. Josh Gomez will be joining us again 18th – 29th August. See our course listing here for more details and join us this summer.  

  • Photo Gallery – Permaculture Design Course 2016

    Photo Gallery – Permaculture Design Course 2016

    With our summer course season rapidly approaching I was reminded that I hadn’t shared the marvelous photos which Nuno took for us during one of last year’s Permaculture Design Courses. Here are a selection of his photos of the event. Please join us for a Permaculture Design Course this year. Bookings are now open, and more »

  • Windy morning

    Drifts of broom blossom on the roads Driving home from Pampilhosa this morning I needed the wipers to sweep the rain of yellow petals away. I’ll pickle some flowers in the next days if I get a chance.

  • A Visitor’s Perspective: A Homage to Casalinho

    This is part of a series of posts where we ask one of our visitors to say a few words about their stay. Ollie volunteered with us in 2015, and this is the blog post he wrote about his stay. “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the more »

  • PDC August 2016 – Design Presentations

    Each PDC culminates with participants creating their own permaculture design. These photos are a glimpse at some presentations.   Investigate future course opportunities at Casalinho on our Courses page.    

  • PDC August 2016 – Morning Madness.

    Morning warm ups during our most recent Permaculture Design Course.                                                 You can search for forthcoming courses at Casalinho here.