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« Previous EntriesHow to Build a Compost Toilet Part 2
Friday, June 26th, 2009Danny Law, friend and Master Eco-Builder, recently came by to bring our compost loo up to decidedly posh standard. We used pine off cuts from the local wood yard to build the walls inside and outside, so hopefully it won´t be as windy in there as it was last winter!
Its got a very beautiful view […]
Permaculture Action Learning Pathway Spring 2009
Sunday, May 17th, 2009“I think if we could get Earth in a living and stable state, not a constantly degrading and dying state caused by our actions, then we have won some right to go to the stars. But at present I don’t think we’d be welcome anywhere else in the universe. You wouldn’t welcome anybody who’d laid […]
Seedballs in Spring
Friday, May 8th, 2009“Life on a small farm might seem primitive, but by living such a life we become able to discover the Great Path.”
Masanobu Fukuoka
Masanobu Fukuoka is one of my biggest inspirations in this journey of developing a new conscious awareness of our co-creative existence in the world of nature. His idea of making seedballs is so […]
Grupo de Meditação e Conversas Despertas
Saturday, April 11th, 2009O Grupo de Conversas de Meditação e Consciência recomeça em 2009. Os encontros terão lugar na Casa Redonda da Quinta Cabeça do Mato, todas as Segundas-feiras, às 19h30, a partir de 31 de Março.
A intenção deste grupo é proporcionar um espaço e lugar regulares nas nossas vidas, onde possamos abandonar a nossa história pessoal e […]
Meditation & Conscious Conversation Group
Sunday, March 29th, 2009The Meditation & Conscious Conversation group is beginning again for 2009. We will gather at the Roundhouse at Quinta da Cabeca do Mato at 7.30pm on Monday evenings from the 30th March.
The intention behind this group is to provide a regular space and place in our lives where we can drop our “personal story” and […]
Ram Pump Victory…Water in Abundance!
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009Well it has been a long and winding road but a few days ago it happened…After much tweaking of valves, sealing of drive pipe from stream head and getting air blocks out of delivery pipe, our Ram pump finally kicked in! And as it did so, with one bang and then another and another, like […]
The Dance of Creation
Thursday, February 26th, 2009Spring is in the air here in the mountains of Portugal, signalled by the bright yellow blossoms of the mimosas. The warm February sun is summoning the symphony of singing sap and burgeoning buds are breaking forth from the fecund earth. Oh how I love Spring, I can feel my blood quickening to the pulse […]
10 Days at the Edge
Sunday, February 1st, 2009When Pete & Cynthia invited us to stay in the Yurt, we welcomed the opportunity as it was a chance to find out, first hand, something we had only imagined doing, when we found our land. It was also time to get to know Pete & Cynthia some more.
So it was with a mixture of […]
How to Build a Compost Toilet Part 1…
Friday, January 23rd, 2009There are two items conspicuously absent from our off-grid house, a cooker, because we eat almost entirely raw food, and a loo, because it’s, well, outside…
The modern norm of flush toilets that scoot our “waste” away down underground pipes to some municipal cesspit, sewage treatment centre, or worse, a nearby river or the sea, is […]
Snow at the Quinta!
Tuesday, January 20th, 2009Hello Everyone!
Its January 20th and as I was walking down to the compost loo this morning to make my morning contribution and I noticed the rain was a bit ´thicker than it usually is! I went to the yurt deck to squeegie off the water and I noticed what was on the deck was a […]
