Don’t waste food, for a more sustainable household.
Did you know that one third of all the food that is harvested on the planet is thrown away? One third of all the effort that was put into growing …
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Want to know how to stop wasting food?
I found two interesting cookbooks that each have an interesting but different approach to solve the problem of wasting food in your kitchen. While Victoria Glass gives you lots of …
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 …
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. …
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 …