Laura and Rachel enjoying lunch on the terrace
They built this wall and many others
Rachel put seats in the wall
Prickly, ancient looking tomato
look at those spines!
ground tomatoes which I think we maybe call ground cherries
prickly pear
one of the original walls
yellow fig...very sweet
inside the poly tunnel.... lemon grass, capsicums, chillis, beans, chokos etc
tomatoes being saved for seed for kokopelli
those strawberries have a superb flavour as do the yellow bush beans
one minute this is a type of zuccini, the next it is a pumkin
beetroot picked and washed ready to cook
we peeled the long ones because the skin was very rough and bitter but cooked they were delicious, comme d'habitude
the front door
the source
the cave that houses the source
Rachel showed me the source
the bread oven
seed trays
what a place to sit and sort seeds
the original fire place inside the house
lunch is a serious business!
the front of the house
a clede or chestnut drying house, belonging to Mas du Diable
more terraces
we visited an organic market garden
village near the market garden
an apple mint growing in the dry river bed
caps for blanching the centre of the endives
lettuce patch and apple trees in the late afternoon light
the house of the market gardener
Mas du Diable in the late afternoon light
the track up the mountain to Mas du Diable, above
the key
my room
blogging station!
a manger under the house
a ledger from 1924
with lists of customers and goods and amounts owing
