by Faith | Sep 14, 2025 | Farm Life, General, Uncategorized
Parasites on the Farm.. Many of you may not know but I’m a qualified and certified nutritional therapist and herbalist (among a ton of other weird and wonderful modalities). And because of this and because I spent a lot of my life struggling with many chronic health...
by Faith | May 28, 2025 | Farm Life, General, Uncategorized
Growing Strawberries The first few years of living in Portugal I did not do very well at growing strawberries. There were not very many and it was not a very long season. Now there are masses of them, every day, every year, and the last few years the season has...
by Faith | May 18, 2025 | Digestive Health, General, Nutrition, Uncategorized
What I did wrong when I discovered I’d poisoned myself with oxalates… Many years ago, when I was still plant-based I heard about oxalates and thought it was completely ridiculous that all my whole food superfoods could be harming my health. I brushed this nonsense...
by Faith | Apr 3, 2025 | Farm Life, General, Uncategorized
My Homesteading Journal is here! For years now I have wanted somewhere to write down all my plans, dreams, goals, research, planting, harvesting, egg collection, animal purchases and preserving down. I wanted to be able to keep track of what is happening on the land...
by Faith | Apr 2, 2025 | Farm Life, General, Uncategorized
Broody Chickens Although chickens can and will go broody any time of year, they mostly do this in the spring and early summer. You’ll know a chicken is broody because she won’t want to get off her eggs (apart from for a short time to eat and drink) and will become a...
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...
