With a record breaking heatwave temperatures have reached 42°c and we’ve had to take emergency measures to keep the chickens alive.
Walking the Goats and making Herbal Tea on the mountainside.
Here are some of the things we’ve been up to this Spring…
Living “off grid” invariably means we live in the campo and one of the things we all need be aware of is the danger of “wildfires”.
Well, says the elderly Spanish gentleman who sells us our bales of hay, you could try spraying the trees with “mierda de perros”- that’s the Spanish for “dog shit” in case you were wondering.
Meet the new chickens who just arrived at the Freedom Farm.
This week I decided to make my own starter culture for yoghurt from chickpeas.
Once we arrived in Spain our adventures really took on a whole new level of exciting and difficult.
I am overwhelmed by how naive we were, carried along by our sense of this journey as a great adventure but with absolutely no idea just how great the adventure would turn out to be.