Stephan

@nudestephan.bsky.social

⛰️ Living (mostly) nude in the Portuguese mountains. 🌱 Permaculture gardens, homegrown food, natural wine. 🏳️‍🌈 Queer space for friends, volunteers, travellers & wanderers (DM me) #GayNaturist #GayNudist #QueerNature

Well... that was a nice break... The next module of my diploma starts, so it's back to reading about wine every day until mid-October. The good news: "research" also involves opening quite a few pretty nice bottles from Australia to Portugal and everywhere in between from time to time.

August has three main jobs: 🍷 Starting the next module of my wine diploma. 🌱 Getting the autumn and winter vegetable garden ready. 🍇 Harvest... and then making this year's wine. I suspect the next few weeks are going to be completely busy...

Sorry guys… I have been super busy with stuff and didn’t manage to post much the last few days. So just a sunny good morning to you all!

I promised to take you on a walk around the Quinta... and here it is. I am visiting the waterfall, "Promiscua" which is a project for this winter, and end up at the fairy bath. Join me! ... and since this is only a small part of the farm, I promise some more walks and sights in the future!

... it must be time for a visitor again! And this time, staying in the "blue" room - which is usually for volunteers who stay longer. It is bigger and has a toilet, shower etc "en suite".

For years, I was a big city boy: London, Barcelona, Brussels, Hong Kong... and then I went to live in the countryside. And now I really can't imagine living anywhere else!

Someone asked me recently which books made me want to live on the land. So here they are: The Good Life by Scott & Helen Nearing and The Fat of the Land by John Seymour. Anyone else got a land-life book I should read? Let me know :-)

It's potato time... so delicious when cooked with a lot of salt. They actually turn wrinkly - known as papas arrugadas in Spain and are served with smoked paprika sauce. Delicious :-)