Self sufficiency in Galicia

There are definite signs that spring is not far away, last week we saw the first storks , we will look forward to watching them building new...

For quite a while the buzz word with major supermarkets has been traceability, as anyone who read our blog will know, we buy very little fro...

We should not be complaining, but what has happened to our winter? This year has been the mildest winter since we moved to Spain, yet other ...

On and off throughout our life we have been making our own bread, and for the last twenty plus years we always have made our own. When we fi...

Today is a jam making day, or more correctly a marmalade making day. Monday we were at friends for the day and they have a large, heavily la...

However much we have tried to skip Xmas it just never happens and we now concede that it's a good time to have friends round and enjoy a...

Today we have slaughtered the first of the four table birds that we got three months back, we have reared them for around 100 days, and the ...