But first an update on the house
Our green house came into great use, and vastly upped our production, esp with tomatoes, | squash & courgette |
New downstairs door being fitted |
Thermal mass bench evolution |
One of the three lidded maintenance / cleaning holes |
Chimney being fitted into thermal mass bench |
Filled in with cork under and weak lime/sand/ river gravel mix around. |
Bench being beautifully topped with mosaic by Rosie |
Rosie's hand after days of clay liming |
Upright of chimney going out of bottle wall after bench |
No not more rendering!!!!!! |
Passion fruits planted to be trained up and over greenhouse |
Rendering the downstairs with kind helpful work swapping friends |
Inside of green house, still in need of much work |
Sealing upstairs floor after re-sanding |
Used sunflower oil and vinegar as sealant |
Then we polished with linseed, own bees wax and essential oil mix |
First night in the house!!! |
Friend with metal working skills helping us build our own design Rocket Stove oven |
Our shiny black dragon in place |
Josh starting work on the stairs |
First step in place |
Chickens have arrived at Foz da cova
Our chicken tractor design made out of one and half shelfing units
Passion fruit plants start their assent up over the greenhouse
Mascovy ducklings settling into a free range life
Mascovy ducklings settling into a free range life