Estamos a descascar as vigas para o telhado do patio. Também os pintamos com oleo de linhaça e aguarras.
We are stripping the rafters for the patio roof and treating them with linseed oil and turpentine.
Archive for October, 2008
Hoje o Joaquim nos visitou e mostro este cogumelos que pode cozinar pra comer. Os comemos para almoço. Delicioso.
Joaquim came round today and showed us we cam eat these mushrooms. They are delicious we had some for lunch.
Oportunidades para aprender como construir com fardos de palha.
A primeira vez que faço janelas…correm bem.
First time I’ve made windows…they seem to be going well.
Hoje estavamos a preperar a madeira para as janelas com o Barry e o Beverley. Tintamos com oleo de linhaça e aguarras.
Today we were preparing the wood for the windows with Barry and Beverley. We treated the wood with linseed oil and turpentine.
Nature loss ‘dwarfs bank crisis’
By Richard Black
Environment correspondent, BBC News website, Barcelona
Losses are great, and continuous, says the report.
The global economy is losing more money from the disappearance of forests than through the current banking crisis, according to an EU-commissioned study.
It puts the annual cost of forest loss at between $2 trillion and $5 trillion.
The figure comes from adding the value of the various services that forests perform, such as providing clean water and absorbing carbon dioxide.
Junta nos a construir um abrigo em palha no Porto.
Join in the fun and learn how to build with strawbales in Porto.
Ontem pusemos as janelas no telhado e agora a chuva no pode entrar!
We put the skylight windows in yesterday. The rain can’t get in any more.
Daniel from Italy has been staying and helping put the copping tiles on the roof and during one of our conversations he told me about the global 1 billion tree campaign which has a new goal to plant 7 billion trees. I have pledged to plant 300 trees this winter, mainly oaks and corks as well as some olives and almonds.
Also he showed me another Spanish website Madeiras Nobles for a Spanish company that is planting trees (walnuts, cherries, chestnuts) as a long term investment. We calculated if you planted 900 walnuts and trained them to grow one main trunk after 20 years or so you could get 1 million Euros (conservative estimate).
This seems like a more sustainable way to invest our time and money (for children, retirement, as well as personal satisfaction) especially considering the global financial situation. Maybe someone here can set up a similar company here in Portugal where they plant walnuts, cherries, or chestnuts and look after them and people with a high carbon footprint can pay back their ecological debt (surely nearly all of us in the North).
So join the tree planting mission this winter and lets all plant some trees.
Also a big, big thank you to Lenny who helped clean the farm, house and caravan.
Ha uma empresa em Espanha Maderas Nobles que planta avores para um investimento. Plantam nogueiras, cerejeiras, castanhas e tilias o que depois 20 anos pode ganhar 1 millão Euros se plantam 900 avores num hectare! Claro tem que dar atenção para eles ficar direitinhas. Então vai usar a madeira para construção.
Este aparece muito bom considererando a sistema financial. Um bom investimento para filhos, reforma, qualquer coisa. Pois se tem terreno podem pensar plantar esses avores, ou podria ser que ha um projeto aqui em Portugal que pode fazer a atenção o que é preciso. Acho que se plantamos nogueiras, cerejeiras e castanhas, e tiramos os eucalyptus Portugal vai ficar mais rico.
Este inverno vou plantar 300 avores a mayoria de sementes de carvalhos, cortiças, e tambem vamos plantar agunas oliveiras e amendoeiras.
Assim junta nos neste região na missão de plantar avores para os filhos do futuro.