Tag: A Visitor’s Perspective
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Tree Planting Project – Mulberries and Walnuts
Planting new trees has always been a significant part of our plan for Casalinho. Trees to enhance and repair our environment, to feed us, our animals and our soils. Almost all the fruit trees on this property were destroyed before we knew it, but we’re told that the lower portion of the property alone was more »
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Our Week in Pictures: December 2014
December’s round up of what we’ve been working on at Casalinho, our developing permaculture project in central Portugal. Those of you who have been following these photo diaries will have noticed that I’ve not been publishing them for a little while. We’ve been taking a short break from hosting volunteers during December, just to catch our more »
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Composting at Casalinho
As you may have read elsewhere on this blog, we rely heavily on our animals to not only contribute to our compost, but to assist in it’s preparation too. The outside part of our animal pen actually operates as our initial compost bay. All the animal green feed and all our household and garden compostables more »
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A Visitor’s Perspective: Sam’s Diary – New Life
This is part of a series of posts where we ask one of our volunteers or visitors to say a few words. Sam has got to know our goats well whilst volunteering here. A Visitor’s Perspective: Sam’s Diary – New Life November 19th,2014 / Sam Wilder With winter in full swing and rain showers almost every night, Andrea was more »
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Our Week in Pictures: 10th November 2014
Our weekly round up of what volunteers have been working on at Casalinho, our developing permaculture project in central Portugal. Well autumn has certainly arrived! Cooler temperatures and the threat of rain have reminded of how much winter preparation still remains undone. Left to right, top to bottom: 1) Beyonce enjoying an autumnal morning walk more »
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A Visitor’s Perspective: Sam’s Diary – Permaculture Vermiculture
This is part of a series of posts where we ask one of our volunteers or visitors to say a few words. Sam is in his second week here as a volunteer and has kindly allowed us to share his online thoughts. Here, Sam explores our vermicomposting system. A Visitor’s Perspective: Sam’s Diary – Permaculture Vermiculture more »
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A Visitor’s Perspective: Sam’s Diary (Part 1)
This is part of a series of posts where we ask one of our volunteers or visitors to say a few words. Sam arrived at Casalinho this week and has kindly allowed us to share his online thoughts. Here, he describes how the animals assist us with our composting system. A Visitor’s Perspective: Sam’s Diary more »
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Our Week in Pictures: 27th October 2014
Our weekly round up of what volunteers have been working on at Casalinho, our developing permaculture project in central Portugal. There has been so much going on this week that it’s been hard to choose the photos! 1) What a handsome boy! 2) Our last batch of corn drying on the driveway. We cut more »
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Our Week in Pictures: 20th October 2014
Our weekly round up of what volunteers have been working on at Casalinho, our developing permaculture project in central Portugal. Once again our activities have been largely dictated by the weather, but we’ve been very lucky and had dry mornings most days in which to get the essentials done. As I write though, it’s more »