by Faith | Mar 6, 2025 | Farm Life, Fermented / Cultured / Probiotic, Preserves
Ways to preserve your harvest… It’s easy to get carried away sowing all the seeds and planting all the trees and plants, but what happens if it all actually works? If you end up with hundreds of courgettes (which is so easily done) or you have a bumper crop of...
by Faith | Mar 3, 2025 | Farm Life, General, Uncategorized
Tips for planting in Portugal… I’ve been sharing a number of posts on Instagram recently about how, what and why plant a certain way, particularly in Portugal and I thought’s I’d put them all in one place for you all in this blog (where I can...
by Faith | Feb 18, 2025 | Farm Life, General, Uncategorized
I recently got two new black baby lambs, just 2 months old. Last year we have a friends flock of 30 sheep here for several months and that has inspired me to have a few myself since then. They were quite scared to start with but are now getting us to me and the...
by Faith | Jun 29, 2024 | Farm Life, General
A month ago I finally got 3 small geese. Two females and one male. I’m learning quickly about them and how different it is to having chickens and in fact in many ways much easier and cheaper than chickens. I’ve socialising and handling them a lot, so...
by Faith | Mar 11, 2024 | Farm Life, General
Raising Worms… A great way to give chickens regular protein is to raise your own meal worms. There are two ways of doing this. You can buy some meal worms and then start a meal worm farm, or you can catch flies – I’ll do another post on this some time soon. Meal worms...
by Faith | Jan 15, 2024 | Farm Life, General
Probiotics for Animals… Animals benefit just as much from fermented foods and drinks as people do. Especially if they arent free-range (meaning their normal diet is restricted), or if they are given medicines like antibiotics etc and are fed on processed animal...
