NATURAL BUILDING Practical Course

  NATURAL BUILDING PRACTICAL COURSE from the 10th to the 18th October

          9 days of theory and muuuuch practice  here at the  MOUNT OF OAKS

WHAT ARE WE GOING TO LEARN AND DO ? 

CURSO PRÁTICO DE CONSTRUÇÃO NATURAL

 CURSO PRÁTICO DE CONSTRUÇÃO NATURAL de 26 de Setembro a 4 de Outubro

          9 dias de teoria e muiiiiiita prática aqui no 
               MONTE DOS CARVALHOS

O QUE VAIS APRENDER E FAZER ? 

ABUNDANCE: family, joyful work and food!

The garden is full of delicious food, the land has been full of family, mothers, brothers, cousins, 2 lovely volunteers and a lot of JOY! We will let the pictures tell the tales of a new compost toilet, BBQ's, .......

ENJOY the snaps!

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Dreaming...Planning... and living

As usual we have a lot to share... visits... community meetings...new members...new building works... harvesting food from the garden, and more ...

it is indeed a New Season ...

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festas, family and a new baby!

This last few weeks have been really busy at Mount of Oaks. The garden is lush and the harvest starts but mostly it has been a time of coming together. The parties in the villages nearby started and our families have been around. Also we are really happy to announce the first baby being actually born on the land! Exciting times!


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It really feels like Spring

A busy but beautiful and joyful month lies behind us.
The garden got finally prepared for the crops, we opened our season for visitors and helpers and all around us, life started to blossom. 

If you want to read more about whom we hosted and what we were up to, please click below.

home alone

When Tom left in the end of January we were alone at the land. I don't know if you can really be alone in the place with one donkey, two dogs, five cats and six chicken, not counting the wild animals, plants and trees. Living some months by ourselves during Winter is part of the community rhythms we have. Following Nature, we "hibernate" in the Winter to come back to action in Spring. But this Winter the weather was so nice (sunny and cold) we enjoyed being with neighbours, celebrating Eric's birthday, visiting Serra da Estrela and starting to work on the garden.

 

 

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