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 …
Permaculture
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 …
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. …
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 …