Tag: permaculture
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Healing Agriculture article
Healing Agriculture is a new(ish) blog and website produced by Katie Shepherd with a view to showcasing ‘the many people working in broad scale agriculture in Europe, aiming for ‘beyond sustainability’, using the ethics of Earth Care, People Care and Fair Share in their farming work and lives. ‘ At Casalinho we are honoured to have more »
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Ram Pump Workshop
A Ram Pump is a hydraulic pump which allows you to raise water from one point to another without using an outside power source. We’re astonished that they aren’t more widely known as you can make one at home. All you need is a water drop and cheap parts you’ll find in the plumbing aisle of more »
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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 »
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Convergência de Permacultura Mandala Garden Revisited
Some of you may remember that in October the first Portuguese Permaculture Convergence was held locally to us, in Fundão. I recently revisited the site of the Mandala Garden built during the event. It’s looking beautiful in the winter sun.
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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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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 »