L’art de agritourism
Only in Provence – or so it seems anyway – can they turn agritourism into an art form. Maybe we were just lucky to spend a few days in a very special place. Maybe it was [...]
Animals
Horsing around in Dartmoor
As I mentioned in my previous post, one of or side goals on this trip was to enjoy some aspects of agritourism and to study how it’s done. This post is more of a [...]
Gentle giants and a little birthday
Ever since we’ve visited Franny’s Farm in North Carolina in 2017, I‘ve been wondering how we could incorporate agritourism as a potential income stream into the jigsaw [...]
Introducing some silver
About this time last year, when we started articulating our goals for Dreamland, we already said that in 2018 we were going to introduce more beneficial animals into our [...]
Permaculture live from Tasmania – week 1
After a lot of introspection and some forward planning, we made the decision that it would be good for me to do a Permaculture Design Certificate course. Not only will it [...]
Franny’s farm
So there I was, enjoying to wake up for my 57th birthday to the sound of crowing cocks, sipping a Trader Joe’s organic green tee, overlooking the beautiful valley in the [...]
Don’t duck the tough issues
Although we have been operating using organic and biodynamics principles at Homeland, one of our core goals at Dreamland was to adopt more permacultural approaches. We wanted [...]