After a few days of extremelly high temperatures, today I woke up with some rain an the colors of the farm with all the grass treamed looked breathtaking. Still plenty of small things to do in the tiny

I came back to the farm for this week with several tasks in mind. Getting the grass cut while it is still green before the summer is the big priority. You do not want to do it too early because with rain

Just came back from a two week trip to the farm in Portugal and the land was outstanding with all the trees blooming. The upper photo is one of the apple trees, but also the vines, fig trees, orange ones

I had planned to come back to Portugal in January for a long while. The idea was to pick up the olive oil we produced from last November harvest and prune the vines and some of the fruit trees. I was traveling

Spending my last evening in Portugal at some friends. Its been a busy day cleaning all the place after four months. Outdoor shower is out The outdoor kitchen is out And the tend is also out. I left everything

Today we are finally adding the tiles to the roof on top of the sandwitch panels. I decided to go with a lightweight roof wich also provides isolation. On top of the sandwitch panel we added tiles to have

A few weeks ago I got the water from the network at the farm. The company only provides the external meter cabinet in any external wall, so I had to take care of the connection from the cabinet to the

Last week I finally got the septic tank installed. It is 1000 liters biological one with two compartments. After the bacteria acts in the first stage, water moves and filters in the second one to finally

I had a little stressful trip back to Portugal last friday. Everything was going ok for most of the trip, I had my new door on the top of the car securely fixed and had only two hours to get to my destination.

It's been a long week. We had rain for a couple of days which slowed us down a little bit but it was great for all the trees. I have started watering all the fruit trees and you can already see how the

We've been working on the farm tiny house for ten days now and you can start to see the progress. We had to break the walls to add two windows There is not too much material variety here and I do not want

Rainy season has arrived, forecast shows rain everyday for the rest of the week. The land looks gorgeous when the clouds open for a few minutes letting the sun go through before the rain starts falling

After a long and intensive weekend at the Barcelona Beer Festival, I got back to Escalos at Sunday midnight. I took a two hour flight and drove for 2:30 hours to reach my destination. The weather forecast

Running out of water, electricity and petrol and a little breakdown. The challenges of off-grid living.

On moving ( to an amazing) house with a garden, again

It's been a long day today. We left the house at 5 am and for a 10-hour drive to get to the little village, where this beautiful piece of land is at. It was a very nice sunny day, but the temperature was

Home again… Take a peek at my journal. It may be painfully awkward at times, and at others so amazing that your eyeball skin peels off and flutters, stunned, to the floor. At still other times it may lull

Lucky enough to register a good activity rate today as I took alot of errands this morning. About the image: Our town experienced two typhoons in a span of 1 week, Typhoon Quinta and Typhoon Rolly. This