What do goats eat?
Rather than being grazers, goats are browsers: they look beyond the grassy pasture to the shrubs and small trees. While they occasionally (and possibly disastrously) love fresh green herbs and …
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Simple Savoury Cupcakes
This Savoury cupcakes recipe is simple and quick to make for those who love good food from their own ingredients and who don’t have much time to cook. These cupcakes I …
Two ways of making compost
This blog teaches you two ways of making compost. It gives a detailed description of how to make quick and slow compost. What you need, how much you need and …
How to sterilize bottles in the oven.
Instead of buying bottles for bottling your home made juice, syrup, wine or whatever you have, it makes sense to reuse old ones. How to sterilize bottles is described below. …
Using chickens in an orchard as Medfly pest control.
Using chickens in an orchard as Medfly pest control is an very effective way to get rid of the flies in an organic orchard. Chickens are very useful animals. They …
Prepare your vegetable garden with chickens.
Did you know you can prepare your vegetable garden with chickens? Chickens can help you in your garden and orchard in many ways. We use them as our little helpers. …
Farming story: Goats, Milk and Cheese…
In the morning, when we get up I see our goat Bianca through the window. She is looking though the window into our sleeping room, thinking: “maybe they are up …
Growing Vegetables in Monchique
A valley with a long memory Our vegetable garden in Monchique is not on a hill. It is down in the Bemparece valley, along the small river that runs through …
Clearing land with goats.
Every year in January and February we walk the goats over our terraced orchard. Yes! Right though our orchard. Clearing land with goats and having fruittrees at the same time …