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Filling the Galleron

December 30, 2017

The Galleron is a place of hard-work and determination, our whole finca revolves around this one spot. This is/was...

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Incubating

December 16, 2017

So we filled the chicken pen, now we want to make our own chickens, we think that Rufus will make some pretty fancy...

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Chickens, Chicks, Roosters and a pesky Cayote

December 9, 2017

When we made the chicken coop we had just 3 chickens, Beryl, Sexy Sue and a nice white chicken that we didn’t have...

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Out-door kitchen or Helipad?

December 9, 2017

When we arrived at the finca, one of the first thing we noticed was a very large partially tiled circle at the front of...

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Building a Wood Storage Tree - With Contrast

December 9, 2017

There is a lot of wood around a Teak plantation, as you might imagine, up on the hill, El Ranchero is totally made of...

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Fertilizing and killing Ants with pink fairy dust.

December 2, 2017

So a while ago I chatted about planting 1000 trees for our natural boundaries, this in itself was an arduous task in...

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Filling the Finca with Baby Animals

December 9, 2017

This week we added to our Finca Family, with 2 puppies and a kitten, all free to a good home

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Hilltop Vegetable Garden (not from the walking dead)

November 11, 2017

We live on a hill, a very big hill in the country… this hill has a pool and a view that most people can only dream...

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Teeny Tiny Shed to Giant Worktop

November 5, 2017

On arrival at the finca we unlocked the toy cupboard aka the bodega, for all intents and purposes our office. It...

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The Day we got a Tractor – or almost

October 27, 2017

After the usual amount of pondering about whether a tractor is really necessary on the finca, by which I obviously mean...

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Gerry the Goose/Dog

October 21, 2017

After almost 3 years of hard work on the finca, our main man Manuel decided that it was time to move on and concentrate...

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Building a Home for the Porks - aka Alizee and Rachel

October 17, 2017

There was once a French couple from a town named Breast (I kid you not) they arrived on foot and we will forget the...