OLIVE HARVEST COMING SOON...

If you´re willing to come and join us for one more olive harvest this year, come and visit in NOVEMBER ...
get in touch by e.mail or a simple comment here just to fill you up with more details.
It´s a time for community, share and fun ...
Bring instruments, songs, stories and joy
Thanks!!!

Cork...gardening...and irrigation

I was busy with my garden when I heard a truck coming... I was not expecting anyone... not that most of people who come by do get in touch before they arrive :-) ... I was just curious... First I thought someone got lost, but then I found out...
This guy you see up on our biggest cork tree came here 9 years ago, the last time the cork was taken... he asked me if I wanted to sell the cork... I was not so sure, because I could use some for insulation... At the same time, if I wanted to use it, I had to smash it, which is not easy by hand... so I asked if I could get a good deal getting the left overs on the factory he works for and he said yes... so, ok... he gave me 50€, which I'm not sure if it was a fair price, but hey, I had no money at all, so it actually came on the right time...
It was also nice to see how it's done... and it's amazing how fresh and wet the bark is inside after it's pealed... and the smell, wow, amazing !!!
But here are some more pictures with some comments about few things I've been up to this last month...

Permaculture course review ...

Check here to see my review on the last Permaculture course... I wrote on my personal blog together with other things that I experienced the last months, but I hope it's ok for you... you can always scroll to the parts where it those speak about the course... it was one with many unpredictable things happening in between, but it was a great one :-) !!!
I just thought it would be easier for me like this than writing the same things again  here :-)

PERMACULTURE COURSE, MAY/JUNE 2011

Here am I to announce another PERMACULTURE COURSE here at the MOUNT OF OAKS, Portugal... As last years it will be taught by Lesley Martin who is a fantastic person, experienced learner and practitioner, and a great teacher in my opinion... I’m sure all the ones who did attend any course with her would say the same...
It ‘s gonna take place from the 28th of May to the 5th of June 2011, and it’s gonna cost 180E (if by any chance you’d like to offer more, know that all the money will revert to pay the teacher, the food expenses of the course and all the extras will be for our future projects...this land is still in a pioneering stage and all things we need are either bought with charitable donations, or done with recycling materials we get for free)...

Back to work...new projects on the way...

 I'm starting the new season organizing... I really don't like mess and chaos... some chaos can be organized, but when it's messy it just gets on my nerves...

We have this shed here where we'd keep the "useful junk"... it was just a roof actually, because the original idea was never finished... then it just became a place to dump things, not really organized... I really like recycling, and there are some things that might be really useful, but then, when it is messy the way it was, nobody can really find anything when it's needed...and actually things get damaged and become real trash...

News from the last months...

Sorry for not posting for so long... I posted on my other blog and forgot to update this one, so  here
goes...
I'm actually away from the land since the beginning of December and I'm so looking forward to go back...I'm in Angola at the moment visiting my parents who were both sick, and now it's time to go back for a new season at the Mount of Oaks.

A GOOD NEW SEASON TO YOU ALL

Computer is broken...And olive harvest needs helpers

it s been few weeks now that i cant use my computer. only to connect my internet modem in order to use my phone for internet, as im doing now... :-)
My keyboard got few drops of rain and doesnt work anymore.but the rest is fine, fiiiiuu...but i can only use the mouse ...
Im using my phone now for access internet and check emails, so i just wanted to drop a line to let you know.
All my mail contacts are in my computer, so i ve been only replying to those who have been sending me emails recently.
I found a good deal for a MacBook pro and im gonna sell the one i have now, an. iBook g4 14", after replacng the keyboard(Just got a good deal yesterday)
So, i have lots of news... Good and not so good, but you ll have to wait till december when i get my "new" laptop.
If anyone would like to send a donation To help on the costs or buy my iBook g4, let me know.

And the OLIVE HARVEST is about to begin...so, no time for internet anyway:-)
If anyone would like to come And help from now till the end of the month, you are more than welcome...
I was going to start today, but the weather is pretty nasty... Soft rain, but really crazy wind:-/
ok , that s it
PEACE TO ALL