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Tag: permaculture

  • In the Kitchen: Sorrel ‘Pickle’

    We’re fortunate in that we have a great deal of sheep’s sorrel (Rumex acetosella) growing wild all over the garden. It’s got a very strong lemony flavour (to the extent that it’s known as azeda in Portuguese, literally meaning sour), and is a versatile addition to the foragers collection. A few leaves make a great addition to more »

  • Our Week in Pictures: 1st September 2014

    The start of a new month and we’re wondering how the summer managed to pass so quickly! This week Jeroen has been working on replacing a friend’s roof, and here at the farm we’ve been caught up in a frenzy of harvesting and preserving our bounty. Left to right, top to bottom: 1) Yellow cherry more »

  • Our Week in Pictures: 18th August 2014

    It’s been another very sociable week and my feet don’t feel like they’ve touched the ground. We’ve got lots done though, as some of these picture testify.  

  • Thankyou Silvia & PDC crew

    That’s the sixth full Permaculture Design Course at Casalinho now complete, and another group of participants have dispersed back to their ordinary lives with a lot of new knowledge and ideas to incorporate. Huge thanks have to go to Silvia Floresta who provided a fantastic course, along with her partner Orlando. Thanks too go to more »

  • A Different Date for your Diary – PDC 1st-9th July

    Plans are meant to be adapted huh? Our Permaculture Design Course this summer with Silvia Floresta has had to be rescheduled. The new dates will be from the 1st to the 9th July, and I hope that means that you’ll be joining us! Please let your friends know, and help us make this another course more »

  • New Summer Courses

    After the terrific feedback we received following June’s Permaculture Design Course with New School Permaculture, we’re excited to invite Helder Valente back next month for a couple of brand new courses. One of the areas of Casalinho that we need to put more work into is our forest garden. I’m sure we’re not alone in more »

  • SLU update – It’s all over

    It’s over. The focus of my life for the past six weeks, the Sustainable Land Use course, has finished. I’m not sure whether I should be whooping with delight or weeping that it’s all over. Certainly I’m happy to have my Permaculture Design Certificate in my hand and a head full of ideas. But I’m also more »

  • Casalinho’s Permaculture Design Course Announced!

    Jeroen and I are really excited to confirm the dates of the first official Permaculture Design Course to be held at Casalinho e Escabelado. It will be held from the 10th to the 19th of June 2011 and be taught in English by Lesley Martin. We’ve had some interest already, particularly from volunteers in what more »

  • Sustainable Land Use course with Patrick Whitefield

    Whoo Hoo!!! It’s booked up, it’s official! I’m going to be attending the Sustainable Land Use course with Patrick Whitefield early next year. Whoo hoo! Do I sound excited?! The course is actually something I looked at a while ago but at that stage it was held over 9 weeks, which was a bit too much to more »