Sweet Basil, all you need to know to grow it.
Sweet Basil is an easy, straight forward plant to grow. In this blog you will find all the things you need to know for planning, companion planting, use and storage…
About the soil in your vegetable garden, what you need to find out.
Let’s go deeper into the soil matter. In this next chapter you will see what you need to find out about the soil in your vegetable garden. Soil… What is…
X ways to make money off your homestead… How much can you really do?
Yes, I do agree that there are many ways to make money off your homestead. From selling eggs to beautiful handicraft. It all depends on your skills and dreams. But…
Fava beans with rice and eggs
In the south of Portugal this is the time of the fava beans. So now we are eating them almost every day. That is okay as long as we have…
Preparing for your homestead.
Looking at all these beautiful blogs about homesteading you might think is the most beautiful way to spend your life. We do enjoy our live here on our homestead, but…
Making Mayonnaise in 2 minutes!
Making mayonnaise is much easier than you think. It hardly costs anything and you can make it exactly as you like it. Once you know how to make mayonnaise, you…
Chop and drop in the vegetable garden, how to do it.
Chop and drop is a way to create good soil in your garden for growing vegetables. In our vegetable garden I use green manure to chop and drop. It is…
Body Condition Scoring for dairy goats, made easy.
Why Body Condition Scoring? Body Condition Scoring (BCS) is a practical DIY tool to find out what fat and muscle reserves a goat has. It is a way…
Fresh Cheese Recipe
This is my Fresh Cheese Recipe. Before I made this cheese I had never made cheese in my life. So do not worry this cheese making recipe is easy. You…
Growing Asparagus
When wanting to grow a vegetable cash crop why not choose a sexy one? Figs are supposedly the most erotic fruit, but its vegetable compeer is without doubt the asparagus….
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…
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…
Our vegetable garden in Monchique
We live about 6 km from the town of Monchique , which is a pittoresk town in the hinterlands of the Algarve. In the town there are many terraces where people…
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…
