Flores Permaculture

Unintentionally, our projects are going at a slow pace. Magnus is dealing with a lot of paperwork, in terms of finalising his divorce process, which is going annoyingly slow (not our doing). So, neither of us are really able to fully put our minds to our projects. However, we harvested two roosters recently, that made for a very comforting meal. Red-X was an escapee from last years rooster cull, and also escaped this year, before we finally caught him. His spurs were very huge; Red-X got his last revenge by stabbing Magnus when he was already dead, create a huge hole in his thumb. Magnus is going to make a necklace out of the spurs for the boys.  We were supposed to harvest three roosters, but unfortunately one of them got ran over. I had to deal with the issue, because Magnus had to dash to town, but the meat was already spoiled. We are no longer going to tie them on the road, because making a mistake like that is too much of a loss for us.  Three roosters rem

Last weeks rainy Sunday was spent organising all the seed varieties I have taking up half the space in our fridge, so I could see if anything might be missing. Some of the seeds are from the local agricultural co-op, but most I have bought from Vital Seeds, Chiltern Seeds, Sementes Vivas, and also some from Fothergill that my Mum gifted us. I have had amazing results already from the seeds I have sourced from Vital Seeds, a company that produce their own, but Brexit might get in the way of being able to source from them again😞. Many of the seeds saved over the years on this farm coincidentally 'disappeared' in 2017, so we only currently have seeds saved from Peppers, Kale, Mustard, and Tamarillo. I intend to save seed from our favourites grown this year, from Tomatoes, Melons, Squash, Peppers, Kale, Lettuce, and Peas and Beans, and Cucumber, so that the next year I won't need to make such an investment in seeds.  We haven't got around to putting the greenhouse