Mindinho on the Basil
This little fly thing is called a Mindinho and is one of the many visitors to the Basil and Chia plants. It’s very small, only about 5mm long so was …
Ladybug season
May is ladybug season, we have hundreds of them all over the house and on many plants. They’re really good because they keep the pests under control. We have at …
Sapeco
Unfortunately Eduardo had to leave today as he could only take a little time off work, but before he left he wanted to show us a really good way of …
Blue bees
We have at least five kinds of bees on our land – apart from the usual honey bees and bumble bees we also have carpenter bees, tiny black bees and …
Back to the land after our holiday!
We finally got back to the land yesterday! we caught a plane from Brasília to Porto Alegre which took less than two hours (it would have been 36 hours on …
Foz do Iguaçu
We arrived in Foz do Iguaçu about 9:30am and got a taxi to our pousada to drop off all our gear. The bus trip was over 15 hours but it …
Florianópolis
We set off from Cambará do Sul about 9am so we could get up to Florianópolis by early evening. The drive was a bit longer than expected because the routes …
Cambará do Sul
We arrived in Cambará do Sul in the late afternoon and unpacked our things into the pousada that Beth had booked a few weeks ago. We had separate double rooms …
Porto Alegre
We picked Mum & Dad up at Porto Alegre airport at about 1:20am on Tuesday 25th, they were pretty jet-lagged but in good spirits 🙂 They first arrived in Santiago, Chile …
Canela & Gramado
The drive to Canela and Gramado from Porto Alegre is about two hours, the first hour is quite boring as it’s all through the industrial outskirts of Porto Alegre, but …