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Easter at Casalinho

I’m pleased to report that the Easter Bunny appears to be well and living in central Portugal.

 

We heard rumour that he had a mysterious horned assistant this year.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I followed their trail around the garden, a good opportunity to take […]

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A Visitor’s Perspective: Sam’s Diary (Part 1)

This is part of a series of posts where we ask one of our volunteers or visitors to say a few words. Sam arrived at Casalinho this week and has kindly allowed us to share his online thoughts. Here, he describes how the animals assist us with our composting system.

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Our Week in Pictures: 1st September 2014

The start of a new month and we’re wondering how the summer managed to pass so quickly! This week Jeroen has been working on replacing a friend’s roof, and here at the farm we’ve been caught up in a frenzy of harvesting and preserving our bounty.

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Our Week in Pictures: 11th August 2014

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Cuties! The puppies, I mean 🙂

Monster onions.

Winnie finally had her kittens

Little rabbits

Sam & Felipe loading up

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Tolerance

Who would have imagined that goats could be so tolerant? Kylie and Beyonce share their morning corn ration with the rabbits.

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The Nursery Wing!

There’s a nasty disease that I’ve been unable to name which kills rabbits around here. Unfortunately a case of it hit here last week and we lost most of our rabbits with no warning 🙁 It was particularly upsetting as three of the adults who died were fairly new mothers with litters still tucked […]

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Animal Update

Firstly, a sad lament for our last pigeon who escaped and went searching for a new mate earlier this week. I hope he finds one. Our other pigeons were taken one by one by what we think we identified as an Egyptian Mongoose about 6 weeks ago. This one survived because Jeroen caught the […]

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