Wednesday, 28 April 2010

visit to Bocas del Toro

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Just returned from a brief trip across the border to Panama and the lovely Bocas islands. We stayed with a friend who has a 100 acre farm th...
Sunday, 18 April 2010

the water costs hidden in everyday things

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Found an interesting article, very interesting article, on the bbc today: a report detailing how much water is used to produce various every...
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Sunday, 11 April 2010

visit to the hen lady's farm

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 Noity is the hen lady at the Farmers' Market. As plump and as lively as any mother hen she is a fixture of the market, selling out of h...
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Thursday, 8 April 2010

salad bowl, the sequel

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A long time ago -or at least 18 months ago - I had the idea to grow salad greens for the market. The fresh, beautiful, flower scented salad ...
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pineapples planted!

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After what seems a year of thinking about it, we've finally planted pineapples. Not that it's very difficult, it's just that it ...
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Sunday, 4 April 2010

self efficiency

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Does that make sense? I've been pondering this morning whether my ideal is self sufficiency or independent efficiency. Self sufficiency ...
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Thursday, 25 March 2010

chocolate! or, lifestyle choices

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The farmer and I are making slow gradual changes in a way I like. The changes are to do with our eating habits, over the last year we have b...
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Sunday, 14 March 2010

Sourdough biscuits

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So the book I picked up is 'Lonesome Dove' by Larry McMurtry, seemingly a classic and definitely a good read. One of the main charac...
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comfort

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I felt back at home on Thursday and Friday, which is great as I've been feeling oddly unmotivated and out of sorts recently. Plus our in...
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Thursday, 25 February 2010

workshops

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We held the second of the farmer's permaculture workshops today. Well they'd better be called permaculture / natural farming in the ...
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Sunday, 21 February 2010

almendro pressing!

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Almendro almond almendro

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The Almendro de la Montana, (Dipteryx panamensis), is a beautiful emergent canopy tree, a mammoth thing, with lovely purple flowers and a ye...
Saturday, 20 February 2010

back to work

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It's been a good long while since I last put digit to keyboard (yes I still hunt 'n' peck), mainly due to being overwhelmed by o...
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Monday, 11 January 2010

water apple blossom

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Manzana de Agua (water apple) blossom.
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and I follow

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I wonder where we're going?

I'm off

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Red Poison Dart frog (Dendrobates pumilio) had enough of posing for the camera and headed off.
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