Posts under ‘Technopeasant & Quinta’

The mornings are still chilly, but we have blue skies and sunny warm days. As manhãs estão ainda frio, mas temos o céu azul e ensolarado dia quente. The chickens have started laying eggs again! As galinhas começaram a pôr ovos novamente! We planted broad beans in November. They are growing fast. Nós plantamos as [...]

How to make an olive oil lamp out of an orange: http://www.portugalsmallholding.org/make-an-oil-lamp-with-an-orange/ Bread Oven Project: http://portugalsmallholding.wordpress.com

OK, so I may not have felled, chopped, or even done the heavy-lifting of carrying the wood down to the store (thanks to Kirsten and Helen who did) but I did stack (and thus – what feels important somehow – touch) every one of these pieces of firewood that will be keeping us warm next [...]

Now I’ve fixed the blog’s photo uploads, here are some pics from December:

Bake Bread Make a vegan chocolate cake for Aonghas’s party Make a “Shepherd’s Pie” with the leftovers from Matt’s birthday dinner Go for a ride with horse and dog Try to fix the blog so I can upload photos!

Grand-daughter Isabella was born on the quinta last night, and today the proud parents buried the placenta under an olive tree in the garden. A neta Isabella era nascida no quinta a noite passada, e hoje os pais orgulhosos enterraram a placenta sob uma oliveira no jardim.

We’ve been here a week waiting to see what a typical day would be like and haven’t yet found it – each one is different. We were Wwoof virgins ten days ago – as far as we were concerned a woof was something that you heard from a dog, but one week at Andy and [...]

Last week we built a new cage, where small chicks will be safe from foxes. Na semana passada nós construímos uma nova gaiola, onde os pintos pequenos estarão a salvo de raposas. The fence is cemented into the ground so foxes cannot dig under it. A cerca é cimentada no chão para que as raposas [...]