Spring Cleaning

This week has seen a wonderful change in the weather here at Fonte de Baixo. The rain for now at least has subsided and we have been blessed with warm spring sunshine and crisp evening frosts and clear skies. A stroll around the terraces revealed new growth, buds breaking, the occasional butterfly, and the buzz of the honey bees collecting nectar from the loquate trees that are in flower.



The most remarkable discovery was to be found in our rhubarb patch - strong clean crimson stems and vivid green leaves basking in the early morning sunshine. We are really looking forward to our first crumble and stewed rhubarb with our own honey and yoghurt for breakfast...yum.



We finally got the chimneys in the main house installed which makes it feel more like home and soon we will move from the small stone grainstore which has been our base for the last two years whilst we got about renovating the four small stone barns into one living space. This will be both exciting and a little sad as we say goodbye to the little house we have been calling home. The grainstore will be renovated and become our small meditation and therapy space. We have used the evenings, now that we have light and heat to update the website with some of the workshops and events we will be hosting over the coming months.