This fabulous pizza base recipe, made with buckwheat flour and chia seeds, has become a weekly favourite in our house as it can be made super quick: 10 mins prep, 20 mins in the oven, then a further 10 minutes once the toppings are on. Chia seeds are a great source of...
Alice, 40, Tom, 41, Noah, 11 and Ned, 9 live in Leeds in the UK. They love adventures and were our first volunteer family where they helped us plan and make our outside toilet and shower block with recycled materials. Please explain your lifestyle and philosophy Our...
This week we had such an amazing experience. Our first family came to stay on a working holiday and it went really well, apart from a few little issues that were learning experiences for us for the future. The Harrison family arrived and we guided them over the phone...
I wanted to write a little post about our experiences moving to Central Portugal as this is something I often get asked in terms of basic living costs/ education etc and so I wanted to try and cover it here in one place. I do think every situation and budget is...
I wanted to write a little about the start to this year and how last year in 2017 I think a lot of people I know there seemed to be a lot of upheavals and changes and well, crap! For us it was about following our dreams, finding our place, finding our feet and...
After an absolutely brilliant yet very tiring trip to the UK to spend time with friends and family and to sort the rest of our stuff out that was left with Garf's parents, we arrived back with our friends and 4 days to sort out our first family day here at Brejo de...
I wanted to write a bit about how our lives have changed in the past few months since living off-grid on our quinta, as being back in the UK for a few weeks has highlighted to me how we live very differently now. Being off-grid and quite rural you need to quickly...
I am excited to share this amazing online resource for children we discovered a few months ago through the Worldschoolers facebook group.Around the World Stories is created by an American family who are worldschoolng and travelling Europe and as they go creating audio...
Wow August was HOT!!! Being from the English Lakes we weren’t sure how we would survive days with over 40 degress heat – but we did!! We just did what people mainly do here in August – stayed inside, swam in local pools, rivers and lakes and didn’t do much work on the...
This is my first article for Parent Tribe. I am very grateful for Hatti asking me to write for her website. I thought it may be a useful starting point to look at how kids can become more involved in the kitchen. I think this is such an important rhythm to introduce...
