Self sufficiency in Galicia

Today was a day off, we went with friends to visit the Roman Gold Mines at Las Medulas, in Leon. The site is Fantastic, covering some 2000ha...

At last we have had a nice drop of rain, it lasted for a couple of hours and has at least cooled things down a bit. The Autumn raspberries a...

I guess if we still lived in Ireland we wouldn't be welcoming the rain, according to a friend there it hasn't stopped all summer, bu...

This week has flown by, I have been very busy bottling fruit, we have had a bumper harvest of pears and have bottled 15 jars, plus the figs ...

We have now come to the conclusion that we are no longer going to be able to get GM free feed for our hens, unless we can find an importer f...

GMO contamination. For some time we have been trying to find hen food free from genetically modified maize. Up until a year ago this was qui...

Once again it feels as though we are feeding all the wild life in Galicia, the mice or voles are having a garden party at the expense of our...