My new friend Bernd recorded this “Portuguese Frog Concerto” -which has been my personal lullaby echoing from the riverside for the past 2 weeks … there are also 3 frogs vacationing in my water reservoire – any suggestions how to free them to join their mates for floating & dancing down by the river ? [...]
we invite you to a minga (shared work day) next tuesday morning (16th february) to be followed by a convivial mardi gras pancake lunch … i would like to put up 150 metres of fencing with the aim of keeping the goats on the quinta and out of the vegetable garden. it would mainly be [...]
Anyone that is interested in lending a hand building a Moon Coccoon here in Portugal get in touch! We are starting to build this 2.1 hectares into a permaculture based eco-village. There is room for the right people to stay on with us and become part of the project. Self sustainability is the target … [...]
January has been as busy as any other, though we still don’t have planning permission so can’t actually start work on the house. So we have spent way more time working the soil, which is mostly a gritty, sandy affair, high in acid and not very product…
We have 5.5 hectares (organic already 20 years) close to Montemor-O-Novo, Alentejo. The land consists of olive, fruit trees and arable land. Basically we are looking for someone willing to farm/maintain the place - for which we offer a lovely equipped house in exchange for vegs/fruit/oil for our household needs. We are open to suggestions [...]
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I am looking for somewhere with space for a large polytunnel, terraces for organic veg, some sort of watertight house or shelter, perhaps some outbuildings or ruins for animals, but most importantly, running fresh water. I ran an outdoors activities business in the middle Atlas mountains of Morocco for three years, so basic doesn’t bother [...]
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