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Just realised that I have signed into the wrong account - I think I had another one with the username eccentric_emma ?? Anyway I had a lot more posts on that one....I'll try and reactivate it and switch.

Hi guys, I used to use this forum all the time, when I lived in the UK and had a small allotment. Then I followed my dream, went WWOOFing in Spain and Portugal, stayed as a long term WWOOFer on a farm in Portugal and finally bought a smallholding , lived in a yurt (currently living in a truck for th...

KK - how did you get on with purple ukraine? every single tomato on ours split! then went mouldy. cant comment onthe costoluto fiorentino as most of them died before getting fruit!

we use Suma wholefoods wholesaler. they will let you make a wholesale order if you dont have a shop that they supply within a certain distance.

We get loads of these round here, definitely puffballs - I've eaten loads. There are members of the puffball family which aren't edible (but i dont think they're fatal) but they are covered in spikes and smell bad so you probably wouldn't want to eat them anyway!

Just googled 'almond liqueur recipe' and came up with this

http://www.homebrewunderground.com/47/a ... pe-part-1/

looks reasonably simple although takes time! theres good photos on there too. let us know how you get on!

this is a very interesting post about water mines, im very interested as i also live in Central Portugal (we must have some friends in common somewhere) and take water from a mine but it's all a bit of a mystery to me other than putting the tubo in and taking the water out! also, do you use a filter...

elderflower jam is amazing, if you find the recipe definitely post it on here. a friend gave me a jar once but she isn't around to ask for the recipe for a while!

am planning on blackberry jam later. just foraging from brambles all around although it seems all the best ones are right in the middle of all the thorns and its far too hot to be wearing thick 'bramble-proof' (if there is such a thing) clothes! but worth the scratches hopefully.

All these wonderful courgette recipes!! Our current favourite is courgette fritters: dead easy, you just grate a courgette into a bowl, sprinkle it with salt to draw out the liquid and leave it fro 20 mins. Then beat in enough flour to make a batter then deep fry them. (great if you can deep fry in ...

hi you are def not over reacting! but i understand how you feel - i also look pretty young for my age and also am even shorter than you! so i get patronised a lot. but i deal with it by showing that i know more than them and that usually shuts them up! its a shame you didnt feel you could say anythi...

hi guys i used to come on here all the time but not for the last 6 months because i moved to portugal on a long term WWOOFing placement and now im there long long term, building a yurt and looking after stray dogs and generally having all sorts of ishy type fun! but usually i dont have a lot of acce...