Tag: Goats
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Our Week in Pictures: 17th November 2014
Our weekly round up of what volunteers have been working on at Casalinho, our developing permaculture project in central Portugal. 1) Highlight of the week was the surprise birth of a little goat kid on Friday morning. In this photo she’s only a few hours old and already determined to follow her Mum outside. 2) more »
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Goat Surprise!
Guess what I found in the goat shed this morning? Yes, a little goat kid was born overnight 🙂 It’s been horrid weather, and it looks like Brownie gave birth outside rather than in the shed, probably because the bigger goats wouldn’t let her in. Little 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 (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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Orelhas our Goat, Goodbye.
It’s with real sadness that tell you today about the death of our little Billy goat, Orelhas. Orelhas joined us in July, and my hope was that he would grow up to be the father of a new generation of Casalinho goats. Sadly, at the beginning of September the goats managed to break into the 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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Goats Roll Up, It’s the Vine Leaf Buffet!
All summer we’ve been struggling to keep the goats away from the grape vines, in order to protect our harvest of fruit. Vine leaves are one of the goats’ favourite foods and if they are allowed to they’re easily able to strip a vine in minutes, sometimes damaging it in the process and certainly scoffing the 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 »
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Our Week in Pictures: 6th October 2014
Lots of people on site this week including some new volunteers, and plenty going on as usual. But the focus has really been on the grape harvest, with foot stomping the grapes being a popular activity. The first batch of wine has now started it’s secondary fermentation, and another batch is on the way. Grapes more »