Tag: fire
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Disaster
On the afternoon of 17th August disaster struck, and the Piódão Fire took our farm. We don’t find it easy to ask for help, but reality is harsh. Until now we’ve been running on adrenaline and shock, but we can’t rebuild alone. We need support to get our animals and farm back on their feet. more »
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Monster Broom
Wikipedia tells me ”Plants of Cytisus scoparius (broom / giesta) typically grow to 1–3 m tall, rarely to 4 m.” We’ve been cutting down specimens easily 6m today. We’re so happy to see these go. Broom is incredibly flammable, and having a giant impenetrable thicket of them (belonging to our neighbour) so close to the more »
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Too Close for Comfort
Our volunteers wrote a lovely tutorial on hot composting for me to post here, but anything hot doesn’t seem appropriate after yesterday afternoon! We had our first forest fire of the year, the closest to Casalinho we’ve experienced. One of our visitors raised the alarm, and whilst another phoned the emergency services I drove down more »