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Balding

Balding

With all the pampering of the tree-lines the first couple of centimeters of soil already show a lot of mini-life and a different, darker color. …

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Balding

Balding

With all the pampering of the tree-lines the first couple of centimeters of soil already show a lot of mini-life and a different, darker color. …

It really does not always go well

It really does not always go well

It is the second week of April 2023 and only now do I realize how tired I am. For the last six months, in hindsight, I have been working against the …

What the Egg ?!!

What the Egg ?!!

Something white and very round passes by. A spider on its way to play golf? It will definitely need a larger than life club…

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What the Egg ?!!

What the Egg ?!!

Something white and very round passes by. A spider on its way to play golf? It will definitely need a larger than life club…

Duhuff…

Duhuff…

The smell of decomposition, the good kind. I once had a teacher who said it was the smell of sex. At the time I looked at him quite sceptical but now …

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Duhuff…

Duhuff…

The smell of decomposition, the good kind. I once had a teacher who said it was the smell of sex. At the time I looked at him quite sceptical but now …

Put him on a chain !

Put him on a chain !

As this was not an option we had to let Matti go after only three weeks of Matti-ness. What good times we had ! The first week I suddenly hurt my left …

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Put him on a chain !

Put him on a chain !

As this was not an option we had to let Matti go after only three weeks of Matti-ness. What good times we had ! The first week I suddenly hurt my left …

Fog lifts

Fog lifts

I teamed up with Sebas for a total of 5 weeks. A bit longer than usual because his Lola was having quirks and needed a fix up before the road trip …

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Fog lifts

Fog lifts

I teamed up with Sebas for a total of 5 weeks. A bit longer than usual because his Lola was having quirks and needed a fix up before the road trip …

Inspiration

Inspiration

Four days immersed in a world of insects, bacteria, fungi, humus, mulch, roots, chromatography and everything useful to improve soil and plant …

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Inspiration

Inspiration

Four days immersed in a world of insects, bacteria, fungi, humus, mulch, roots, chromatography and everything useful to improve soil and plant …

You see canas, you cut them

You see canas, you cut them

We do not refer to ourselves as “a project”. This presupposes some kind of sensible framework. Like we know what we are doing. The reality …

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You see canas, you cut them

You see canas, you cut them

We do not refer to ourselves as “a project”. This presupposes some kind of sensible framework. Like we know what we are doing. The reality …

On the attack

On the attack

The word boredom does not exist in our Azoia diary as a new challenge presented itself: The vole. A vole is not a mole. The mole feasts on critters …

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On the attack

On the attack

The word boredom does not exist in our Azoia diary as a new challenge presented itself: The vole. A vole is not a mole. The mole feasts on critters …

Prayer

Prayer

On my desktop lives a folder named ‘Prayer’. Inside no text files, only photos. Uncountable ones of our meals. It’s not a disciplined everyday thing, …

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Not so paradise

Not so paradise

Fog patches floating in the dark, wind howling but yet I will have to go outside again, and again, and again. One of the windows is ajar and gives …

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Now

Now

Well now is not now while I write but it felt this moment in time deserved to be captured. To grab at other more challenging nows. It is Saturday …

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Sticky buggers

Sticky buggers

This is about the stick bug and not (yet) about Azoia. When we were little some children would have one in their terrarium but I must admit that I had …

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Foi um prazer

Foi um prazer

It was a pleasure. The pleasure of people visiting us and planting many seeds. Enriching the soil and us. Thank you Ana Maria and Susana!

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Seeds

Seeds

Since half November we have started working the land which makes me especially very happy. Only now do I realize how much I have missed working the …

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Keylines

Keylines

Eh keylines? Well, contourlines and then optimized, to keep the water of the rain and water coming from higher up as long as possible in our land. To …

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Summer

Summer

It is a long wait, Portuguese mills dó mill slowly, add Covid to that - the global excuse for anything - plus a full month of nothing - which is …

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