Flores Permaculture

Summer is absolutely beautiful on our homestead.  Below you can see our house in blue with the Woofer Cabana to the right, across the valley. We are inundated with ripe bananas this time of year. We eat them fresh, fried, baked in breads, fermented into vinegar, and soon dehydrated. Newly planted sweet potatoes are thriving with the protection of a hibiscus and Camilla hedge to block the winds. Our winter onions are ready for harvest and the ground is ready to be replanted for the next crop. This is our first year to grow them and now that we know how easy it is, we will grow many more in the coming year. Red Mustard and Aborigines are thriving in a bed of mulched earth.  The jungle we cleared is now full of banana trees and gardens. A closer look reveals tomatoes, beans, onions, squash, sweet potatoes and herbs thriving in the rich jungle valley. The food has gone wild here, with figs, ground cherries, taro, pe...

We had our first wwoof-er this June.  We had a great time and worked hard together. We arranged a work exchange on a friends farm to harvest potatoes, as he has a large flat area to cultivate. The children really enjoyed having a new friend to live with them for a few weeks. Konswan is bringing supplies from the 'nursery' near our house up the mountain to our fruit orchard site.    Behind her are the blocks for our shed project. Konswan's precious cargo of comfrey, figs and grapes.  These are clones we made ourselves and can continue to propagate until all of our land is full of edibles. Our first guinea chicks hatched, along with more chickens.