by Petru Paler | Jun 16, 2022 | Homestead, Permaculture
Summer is almost here and nature is doing its thing. Flowering: zinnia (left), sunflower (middle), butterfly bush (right) There’s been a whirlwind of work, a lot of it focused on dealing with the wind and watering. Suffering from wind and/or thirst, but hanging...
by Inês Paler | May 8, 2022 | Homestead, Permaculture
Just last year, we kicked-off our reforestation project. Creating a food forest takes time. Not just to implement, in terms of hours of labour, but because Nature has its own rhythms. If you plant a fruit tree in the fall, you can’t harvest its fruits the...
by Petru Paler | May 6, 2022 | Homestead, Recipes
Baking sourdough bread necessarily involves obtaining and maintaining a starter culture. After experimenting with several ways of doing it, I settled on the lowest effort yet still effective one I found: the NMNF (“No Muss No Fuss”) starter, courtesy of...
by Petru Paler | May 2, 2022 | Homestead, Permaculture
After a year and a half of living here, it feels like the wind never stops. Its temperature and intensity vary, but most of the time there is a noticeable breeze. And now, we’re learning a new lesson: many of the young trees don’t like it. March and April were warm...
by Inês Paler | Mar 30, 2022 | Homestead, Recipes
If you are looking for a recipe, you should get it right away. Milk Kefir benefits and background story are below the recipe. Enjoy! Recipe You will need: 1 liter of milk, preferably whole cow milk, pasteurized but not UHT Milk kefir grains 1 jar with at least 1,2L...
by Inês Paler | Mar 22, 2022 | Homestead, Recipes
Olives are such special trees. They live long, are full of meaning (religious and not), they have character and make any plot look wonderful. Some people like to let them wild, others prune reasonably, while others are turning them into bonsai projects. In any case,...
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