Our volunteers’ and our yurt guest’s children enjoy making their own pizzas for dinner, with fresh-picked ingredients from the garden Can’t wait until we get our bread oven built, it was waaaay too hot to be cooking them in the gas oven in the kitchen!
Posts under ‘WWOOF / Volunteers’
First-time wwoofing at Quinta des Abelhas
We were looking for a free holiday when we found out about Wwoofing. Sara and I live in East London, and being Portuguese Sara gets thoroughly sick of grey skies and rainy days by the end of a long English winter and starts to pine for her homeland. When we hit upon Wwoofing Portugal it [...]
Potato slices
A typical Austrian dish is very easily made: Potato slices. Especially when you have from last dinner some cooked potatoes left. Here the recipie (for 5 people): 500g potatoes 1 egg 170g flour 30g butter oliveoil to fry the slices How you do it: Cook the potatoes, peel and mash them. Let the mash cool [...]
Revitalised herbage bed
Next to the “Kitchen Caravan” was an old, feral herbage bed. Originally intended to be used by passionated cookers, it was overgrown with weeds, wild flowers and grass. For a herbs fancier like me an absolute no-go. Herbs need to have space to grow, a lot of sun, water und abundant manure. No sooner said [...]
We’ve Made Our Bed – Let’s Lie In It (It’s Comfrey)
Once upon a time there were three wwoofers and a host who wanted more than anything in the world to have a new bed to grow big and strong comfrey plants. So they set out one cloudy Monday morning, with their forks and spades, down the garden path, past the pond and into the realms [...]
I’m a wwoofer get me out of here
It’s hot. It’s sweaty. There are flies. We have to work had to earn our bread. Andy rants. We cry for mercy. There is a cage for naughty wwoofers and bramble bushes for the ultimate scratchy punishment. There is horse shit to shovel and hills to climb and beasts to ride. And we get made [...]
Short short wwoof stay
I’ve been staying at Quinta das Abelhas as a wwoofer for the last week and tomorrow I’m moving on to another quinta to learn some more about sustainable agriculture practices. This was my first wwoofing experience and I have to say it’s been a positive learning experience. I’ve been in Portugal a while now and [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
