Quinta das Abelhas

Spent all day today (after arguing about where to put it and the best way to do it) digging a big drainage ditch behind the house, after our room has flooded again in the recent rains.

And lots has been going on since the last blog entry: my brother & his girlfriend came to stay for a week which was great and we’re hoping he’ll come back and stay for longer in the summer. He made us a fantastic door for the chicken shed - which our last wwoofers, Reagan & Bree built along with Lester (who’s been staying here whilst looking for & buying land).

The new house has a roof and has been rendered, and the electrics are almost in.

The gardens have been growing incredibly fast since the rain, and i’ve planted onions, peas, cucumbers, tomatoes, sunflowers, sweet peas and transplanted my asparagus.

Reagan and Bree have destroyed a huge patch of couch grass for which I will be eternally grateful. The boys have planted 4 sacks of potatoes into trenches which andy dug on the ‘other side’ of the quinta on terraces that we got the tractor man in to plough.

Well, that’s it for my quick update. Will ask Rod, our new wwoofer, if he wants to write something here. He’s a star and has been digging trenches for most of his time here, for pipes coming from the well to a water tank and then down to the house - we’ll soon have plumbed in water. Water that comes out of a tap. Such luxury!!! And I have plans for a washing machine, yes, oh yes, yes.

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