Casalinho

Tag: Goats

  • Easter at Casalinho

    I’m pleased to report that the Easter Bunny appears to be well and living in central Portugal.   We heard rumour that he had a mysterious horned assistant this year.                     I followed their trail around the garden, a good opportunity to take the camera. Easter more »

  • Our Easter Lilly

    I find it hard enough to post here once a week, and here I am doing it twice in a single day! Only cute baby goat pictures could elicit such enthusiasm! Easter is traditionally a time where we think about new life, and that’s certainly been the case here at Casalinho today. Horny had to more »

  • 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 »

  • 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 »

  • 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 »

  • 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 »

  • 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 »

  • 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 »