by Inês Paler | Abr 21, 2023 | Homestead, Permaculture
It’s been an exciting week at our permaculture homestead here in Portugal! We’ve accomplished several achievements that have made a real difference on the farm.First up, we built another bird coop! We’ve been wanting to keep some additional birds and...
by Inês Paler | Dez 27, 2022 | Homestead, Recipes
Making pistachio butter is easy, once you have a pistachio supplier. It will be tastier, healthier and probably cheaper than the store bought. More importantly, you can adjust it to your preference in terms of texture, and flavour. Soak the pistachio overnight, by...
by Inês Paler | Set 18, 2022 | Permaculture
Here is a list of the nitrogen fixing plants we have in our garden. They are present in order, according to the following: short herbs, climbers, bushes, trees. Trevo branco anão, Dwarf White Clover, Trifolium repensThis perennial doesn’t grow beyond 10 cm tall,...
by Inês Paler | Jul 18, 2022 | Permaculture
Our squirrel died. Of course, it wasn’t ours. We just lived in his territory. Sharing a space, not coming too close. Yesterday, we were, for the first time, a meter away. He was laying quietly on the ground, breathing slowly. Alone, barely moving, still...
by Inês Paler | Mai 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...
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