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	<title>Quinta das Abelhas</title>
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	<description>Organic Smallholding in Central Portugal</description>
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		<title>Tree Planting Pledge</title>
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Also see FREE TREES from Pure Portugal.
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		<link>http://www.portugalsmallholding.org/2008/07/30/tree-planting-pledge/</link>
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		<title>Beans, Beans, Beans, Beans, Beans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are awash with beans. Small bushes, big bushes, climbing beans, trail of tears, lazy housewife, metre long beans, yellow ones, purple ones, green ones, spotted ones. Almost every meal has a load of sliced green beans (or purple or yellow) in it, and quite a lot are going into the freezer for the winter.

Next [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just a few different shaped squashes&#8230;.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Aren&#8217;t pumpkins, squashes and courgettes amazing. They come in so many different shapes and sizes.
Here are a few that we are growing this year.
Patty-pans:

An ugly looking thing.

Neck squash.

Guatamalan Blue pumpkins.


Some kind of rocket squash.

Heirloom pumpkin.

And a stripey one.

And of course, we have tons of butternut squashes growing, and some other varieties of pumpkins and squashes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rota dos Laranjais</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a truly beautiful walk, through an area completely full of citrus trees. Surprising that such a large area is warm enough in the winter for oranges, this far north and that high up.
Most of the orange groves are in a state of disrepair and abandonment, which is a shame. According to a sign [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.portugalsmallholding.org/2008/07/16/rota-dos-laranjais/</link>
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		<title>Parque do Coração de Maria</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We took our visitors up to the Parque do Coração de Maria, near Casteloes, near Tondela, and did a bit of the Rota dos Laranjais. The church and park is very beautiful.


The views from up there are breath taking:

And these must be the bluest hydrangeas I have ever seen! The soil there must be either [...]]]></description>
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