Hi all 👋🏻
With this post I’m joining in at the Wednesday Walk challenge and Make me Smile challenge. That are hosted by @tattoodjay and @elizacheng every week on Wednesday.
‼️Have a look: Here in the Wednesday Walk Community if you want to join in! or at @tattoodjay ’s Post here: Wednesday Walk for the birds!
I will guide you through my photographs and my tour/ walk over the eco farm in Mgarr on the island of Malta. The largest island of Malta - one of it’s archipelago’s in the Mediterranean Sea. But it is still tiny… 😉 with only 246km2 surface area.
I will follow the time stamps of my photographs.
So you can walk along the farm with me and look at all the surroundings I show you 😎 as if you would be right there with me. 😉
Photos are all taken with my iPhone on the 10 February 2020.
At that time we were still living in Malta, it was 1 year in total.
Let’s start our walk.
We drove there with our car and parked it in the parking lot.
Located on Google maps with the yellow star ⭐️ :
Address: Vincent’s Eco Estate, Trejqa
tal-Qanfud, Żebbieħ
L-Mgarr, Malta
Zoomed out a bit:
Before I forget, let me give you a bit more information first about this eco farm. It is one only a few on Malta and deserves our support and that more people know about it.
Their Website you can find here!
Their Instagram here!
The website states:
”Based on years of sustainable farming and the legacy of the late Vincent Camilleri, Vincent’s Eco-Estate is an ecological and fully certified organic farm producing a variety of organic vegetables and gourmet products.
It also provides a perfect opportunity to reconnect and discover all that nature offers us. Caring for the environment is of ultimate importance for the proprietor, Gloria Camilleri. The estate, which is also closely situated to a UNESCO World Heritage site, Skorba Temples, holds a long-term self-sustainability plan and advocates against activity which alters nature’s harmony such as soil erosion and salinity in the water table.”
The estate:
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The little shop:
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Our walk:
We start just behind the little shop and walk towards the fields.
Next to us we find first the grape 🍇 vines.
They are still in hibernation as you can see. The farm uses other plants around the vines to repel insects.
Some garden decorations and plants around us.
We walk towards one of the greenhouses.
If you look closely next to the covering you find along the entire side they planted mint. This repels also harmful insects from getting inside the greenhouse. Such a clever way to use other vegetation to protect the crop. This you will find in the entire farm.
Inside the greenhouse he tells us more about what they grow here and how they protect it. We all got some baby plants of lemon grass to take home. 🥰🌱 I show you later how well it did on my terrace. 😉
A look at the dog… protecting the land 😎
And the field and crop next to it again. All is looking so well.
Close up of some veggies. Broccoli 🥦
Next we walk further and he shows us the chickens. Running around in a large plot with plants.
Happy chickens 🐓 providing great eggs 🥚
They are running around under these plants.
Next we walk further… the estate is rather large. Our view.
We reach now the strawberry fields.
Some are getting ripe already 🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓
Our views further along.
Zooming in on some areas they haven’t used yet but will in the future.
Reaching more vegetable fields in the back area of the estate.
Some flowers along the way… couldn’t be missed.
Ruins are all over the grounds. Old temples.
More views and some blossoms on the trees. 😁 🌸🌸🌸🌸
Walking further.
We see here the area in the back where the farm gets it’s olive oil from. He explains to us that there are olive trees 🌳 of over 300 years old. Most are the oldest on Malta.
Little paths…
More vegetation to keep the spray of pesticides from other farmers next to them away from their estate.
Beehives 🐝🐝🐝🐝 can’t be missed for pollination and honey 🍯
More funny plant pots along the way.
And we reach now from the other side the vines again 🍇🍇🍇
More grape vines 🍇🍇
And edible flowers along the way.
My lemon grass on the terrace:
I couldn’t take it with us in our move, as it would not have survived the moving container… so I gave it to the owners of the apartment we rented. She was happy with it.
And with this last photo… I want to end my post today.
Until next time 😎
Hope you enjoyed my photos of this walk and going along with me. Thank you for looking and reading 😊 🙏🏻 Really much appreciated!
Any questions or comments, let me know. Always happy to help.
Have a great Wednesday all 😎
Grtz Jackie
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