NO-DIG MANDALA GARDEN
Agosto 11, 2019One of the things we worked on with Lucas (here you are our post taking about Lucas and the other workers), nearby Cadiz, was a “no-dig” mandala garden, for summer and winter cultivations. To make it ready we had first to clean the selected area, approximately a circle of 70-80 sqm. First thing we had…
WORKAWAY VOLUME TWO: the rebellion strikes back
Agosto 10, 2019Here we are again, with a new workaway period! We choosed Lucas and his project, driven by the activity list described and the place, southern enough to overtake the winter. Andalusia has a very nice weather in this season, just some rain drops and some wind, but all in the sun is still warm and…
WORKAWAY: VOLUME ONE
Febbraio 6, 2019This the first workaway experience of our trip. A first answer to the usual question “how do you support yourselves?”. What is workaway then. Well, we can define it has a working exchange platform were the volunteers offer to an host working hours and his experience in the range of 5h/day for 5 days week/s,…
FLOWER BEDS // AIUOLE
Febbraio 6, 2019—– main post: “WorkAway: Volume One” —– Rita’s land has an high clay content, so it is not easy to make it productive ina short amount of time. We also missed enough materials to boost it in such short time (no chemicals of course)l so together with Rita, we tried different methods on smaller spaces,…
COMPOST BOX // COMPOSTIERA
Febbraio 6, 2019—– main post: “WorkAway: Volume One” —– One way to get a good soil, rich and productive, is to have a good compost available in enough quantity. This would have helped Rita to have a more fruitful field.For this reason we realize a compost box made out of pallets where mostly the leftovers of the…
TREES AND FRUIT PICKING // ALBERI DA FRUTTA E RACCOLTA
Febbraio 6, 2019—– main post: “WorkAway: Volume One” —– The field where Rita started form is a bit flat with some trees like olive, almond and some young orange providing some shadow here and there.a bit more in the inside loquats and oranges with fruits. The loquats left to themselves for a while, grown a bit messy,…
HOME MADE PASTA // PASTA FATTA IN CASA
Febbraio 6, 2019—– main post: “WorkAway: Volume One” —– When you deal with Italians, one of the the main thing you talk about is food and how some of our traditional dishes are supposed to be arranged versus the way the rest of the world approach them (you have to know that bolognese sauce does not exist…
HONEY CANDIES // CARAMELLE AL MIELE
Febbraio 6, 2019—– main post: “WorkAway: Volume One” —– Among the food experiments we include also nice honey candies, 100% home made. How we did them? Tutorials and trials, since the temperature for cooking the honey changes the compound consistency. Once found the right one, we dropped it on hover paper. When the temperature allow you to…
LIME // CALCE
Febbraio 6, 2019—– main post: “WorkAway: Volume One” —– Rita had the desire to paint some rooms with lime, given its duration and disinfectant power. For this reason we helped her, even if it was not so easy to select a process since everybody has his own recipe, from the hardworking shop, to the bricklayer, from web…
DAY LIFE AND FREE TIME // QUOTIDIANEITA’ E TEMPO LIBERO
Febbraio 6, 2019—– main post: “WorkAway: Volume One” —– As you might have understood we are not been only in our corner in this period, but we had the chance to meet other people, each of them on their path.Hanna was one of them. German, slightly more than 20 yo, working in Burgau taking care of guests…