Thanks to the Way Back Machine, I’ve managed to retreive some of our old blog posts and will work on getting them all back on here at www.portugalsmallholding.org/category/archive
Posts under ‘Old Blog Archive’
realize that life goes fast, it’s hard to make a good thing last
Hey all you Quinta enthusiasts, this blog is from Amanda, lowly WWOOFer from the Southern U.S., also known as “the one who talks like Dolly Parton.” I have been meaning for days and days to post an entry but slaving in the hot sun has prevented me from doing it. Of course, that’s just a [...]
arch
the archway at the bottom of the steps (which have almost reached the top – thanks to wwoofers amanda & brandon) with a honesuckle planted one side and a climbing rose the other. the arch was made entirely from materials we had lying around, left over from other jobs, and was based on a simple [...]
Anyone who doesn’t like it here needs to go have a word with themselves in the corner
Well, what a trippy month that has been. Mind you it was absolutely brilliant. Everyone was so welcoming, all great people. I think today (12th Feb) is the hottest so far. I’m surprised all the rain last night didn’t put the sun out. Have really enjoyed my horse shit removal, bramble cutting, planting trees, digging [...]
Monika the Magnificent Mosaic Maker
Finally got around to funkying up the outdoor bathroom. wwoofer Monika laid a mosaic on the floor and we lined the edge of the pathway and sides of the bath with granite stones. Just got to plant around the edges now with herbs to go in the bath, which will be watered by run-off from [...]
More Mosaic
zoey & stew making a fabulous mosaic around the laundry sink which we are going to incorporate into an outside kitchen. can you believe this is their first attempt at mosaic-making!
Two Step
Yee-hah! The “ski slope” is, slowly, becoming steps. It takes two days to make one step, 2 done so far. May reach the top by the end of the year …..
Easter Break
I decided back in January I needed to get away, and I mean get away, from life as I knew it. Away from my family, my house, my town, my work, my country, my language, my everything I knew.I went on the web site and looked around for some place I could go and be [...]
honey bees at ‘honey bee farm’ [quinta das abelhas]
sophie has been suggesting i should write a blog for months… but i’m always so busy, either working hard or playing hard to relax… anyway, a few weeks ago my mate harry, who has kept bees before and lost his over this very cold dry winter, came over and suggested we go look for a [...]
shed door
the new door on the new chicken shed, with my little bro who carpented it for us
