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Flower Harvest
What a beautiful harvest sitting in the wintergarden for drying. Left: Chamomile, rich in the polyphenol Quercetin, very soothing for the digestive system, calming for the nerves and antiallergenic. Right: Safflower. In Portugal they use the dried (and sometimes ground…
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Rich growth and variety in our garden Summer 2021
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Painting the houses
For painting we were using a silicatepaint. It is like a liquid stonepowder, natural, no toxic chemicals, and the walls can still breathe. We are very happy about the new looks of our Quinta!
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Work on and around the house 21
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Harvest summer 21
A little selection of our beautiful harvest of summer 2021, that we are immensely proud of.
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Trip to Flores and Corvo July 2021
Gosh, we were so tired, our nerves so wired. Since January our neighbors had big constructions going on. Every morning we were woken up by a convoy of around 7 cars, trucks and machines in our tiny dead-end street, spitting…
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Celebration, Guests, clients, retreats, volunteers, Happy Harvest, Healthy Lifestyle, Personal Coaching
Volunteers Milla & Viola 24.5. – 18.6.2021
It was a full moon when Millas mom Dorothee (namesister! *g*) and her life partner Peter contacted us via Skype. Peter Lüttge is a quite well-known German-Finnish journalist who visited Jan in Gran Canaria (article) and here on Graciosa (article)…
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Horse Lilla Gubben joins Quinta Cheia
In March 2021 our neighbor Rui presented us his young horse. He had started training him and also used him to plow his potato field. He told us that the horse´s father is a bull fighting horse, a Lusitano, which…
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Setting sailing boat Henrietta up & first trip
Jan has started sailing when he was 10 years old, I have never sailed in my life before. As a child, my family used to visit the German north sea though, and I always LOVED to be on boats, out…
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Beautiful abundant garden Spring 21
The subtropical climate of the Azores is just perfect, almost everything grows here, except for fruits which need frost. We have fresh veggies and herbs the whole year around, also in winter there is a great variety, like different kinds…
