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Category: Our forth year on the land

Our forth year on the land

Feliz anniversário Beth!

Ontem foi aniversário da Beth! Nós tivemos um dia simples sem viajar para qualquer lugar, foi perfeito 🙂 Beth cozinhou um bolo com coco, chocolate e framboesa em cima.

Our forth year on the land

The Araucária tree

Um documentário lindo sobre o árvore Araucária.

Our forth year on the land

Raspberries for christmas

We’re really pleased that we took the time to save a couple of the raspberries from the ant attacks because they’ve been amazingly productive. It turned out the cotton wool …

Our forth year on the land

Leelee getting a bit too friendly

The other day I was in the hammock eating a hamburger when I noticed some movement on the ground under me. It was Leelee eating the bits of bread that …

Our forth year on the land

The new mulcher

We collected our new mulcher today from a small town just out of Caxias do Sul called Farroupilha which turned out not to be so small – it looks like …

Our forth year on the land

Simaltaneous failure

Yesterday when we were meditating there was a sudden crashing collapsing sound nearby. At first we thought it was a tree falling, but then realised that the fire wood storage …

Our forth year on the land

Five years in Brazil today!

Today is 11/11/16, exactly five years since we left New Zealand! We celebrated with a bottle of our Heles beer which you can only get from Fassbier, our favourite bar …

Our forth year on the land

The art of tight fences

Out in the country you need to be able to make a good tight fence – it’s similar to how people who like camping need to know how to make …

Our forth year on the land

At last a bit of rain!

Finally had a bit of rain today, but Beth doesn’t let that get in the way of her morning stroll! The plants are all looking very happy as well (the …

Our forth year on the land

Ants and Raspberries

We thought we were going to have a good crop of German raspberries this year because the cutting we planted that we got from Arca Verde really took off! But …

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