Tag: Volunteer
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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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Our Week in Pictures: 3rd November 2014
Our weekly round up of what volunteers have been working on at Casalinho, our developing permaculture project in central Portugal. All change this week with a completely new group of volunteers here to work with us. Once again our work has been seasonally lead, with work in the veg garden and last minute winter proofing 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 »
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Our Week in Pictures: 13th October 2014
Our weekly round up of what volunteers have been doing at Casalinho, our developing permaculture project in central Portugal. Katinka’s marvellous photo above sums up this week’s weather. It’s been grim! But our intrepid volunteers have been cracking on in the drier patches. Left to right, up to down: 1) Fabulous colour combo from the 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 »
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Our Week in Pictures: 25th August 2014
Festa, festa still this week, with the three day event at Malhada do Rei. As I write, we’re sitting in the smoke of the first fire we’ve experienced locally this year. It’s not close enough to be of concern to us personally, but is a stark reminder of how a dangerous a stray spark can more »
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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.