Keela Permaculture

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Keela is a sizeable 18-hectare off-grid homestead & permaculture farm with courses and consultancy in Portugal.

Our project has a market vegetable garden, agroforests, food forests, animals, natural buildings and many established permaculture systems. Join us for a course
- Permaculture Design
- Agroforestry
- Natural Building
- Yoga Retreats

24/10/2026

Do you want to change your life, leave the city, live off grid and grow your own food? But how do you support yourself financially and get the project started?

In Portugal (If your under 41), you can get up to €110,000 of support to start a sustainable business, and you can get even more if you have some capital. If that sounds like something you want to do, join one of our Permaculture Design Courses. We will help you design your business plan while teaching you the skills to live off grid and manage a farm.

Join us last minute for our course starting 1st November, or check out our 2027 dates now.

22/10/2026

It's that time of year again, when the winter vegetables need planting every 2 weeks. They are successional vegetables, which means you keep planting as you keep harvesting.
Summer vegetables are different. With tomatoes and eggplants you plant once and keep picking fruit from the same plants all season, so you can get away with a single planting.
Winter gardening takes a bit more attention, but staggering the plantings means there is always something ready to pick instead of a glut followed by a gap.
Want to learn how to plan a garden that feeds you all year round? Join us for our Food Forest course this November, or come along to one of our Permaculture Design Courses here in central Portugal.

10/10/2026

10 Organic Ewes for Sale, Most in Lamb, Fundão
We are selling 10 healthy breeding ewes from our certified organic farm to rest half our land and focus on soil regeneration using various experimental methods.

• Most are in lamb, due late December to early January
• Full mouth (all teeth), no foot problems
• All registered with ear tags
• Certified organic, grass fed, all born and raised on our farm
• Proven mothers: easy lambing with no birth issues, and lambs that grow big quickly for meat
• Breeding: sires were pure Suffolk or pure Black Merino. Dams are Assaf/Lacaune or Assaf/Lacaune crossed with Black Merino or Suffolk.
These are very good sheep. We are only selling because we are starting a land restoration project to improve our soil, which means losing access to a third of our grazing land.
Price: €150 each, or €1,200 for all 10
Location: Mata da Rainha, Fundão
Contact: WhatsApp +351 960 188 96

07/10/2026

Autumn at Keela means acorn season, and the sheep know it 🐑🌳
Did you know the holm oak (azinheira) is a protected tree in Portugal? You need official permission to cut one down, even a single tree on your own land.
There's a good reason so many are still standing. Over the centuries, as forests across Portugal were cleared for timber, firewood and farming, people kept the holm oaks. Their acorns were too valuable to lose. They were ground into flour and used to fatten pigs, and that's how the montado landscape of open pasture dotted with oaks came to be. Acorn eating here goes back even further: before the Romans arrived, Lusitanian people were already making bread from acorns.
Here on the farm we're seeing that story play out in reverse. Since we took over the land and stopped ploughing, thousands of baby holm oaks have started popping up all on their own. No planting, no nursery, just the land doing what it wants to do when you give it a chance. Our job now is to steward them, protect them, and help the best ones grow into the next generation of trees.
And in the meantime, the older oaks are feeding our sheep, just like they've fed animals here for hundreds of years.

05/10/2026

Apparently I am sweet enough. Went to harvest our honey today and there just wasn't enough in the hive for me to take any. The bees need it more than I do, so I left it all with them. Maybe next year.

It's a good reminder that the bees come first and the harvest comes second. A hive that goes into winter with its own stores is worth more than a jar on the shelf.

Want to learn how to work with nature rather than against it? Join us for our Food Forest course this November, or come along to one of our Permaculture Design Courses here in central Portugal.

05/10/2026

From August we seed brassicas once a month to keep a continuous winter and spring harvest. That means various cabbages, broccoli, and cauliflower.

We are on our second round of planting now, with more seeds already germinating. Staggering the sowings means we are not hit with everything ready at once, and there is always something coming on behind it.

When we plant the brassicas, we add a pinch of crushed egg shells for a calcium boost and some worm castings as a general boost, including magnesium.

Want to learn how to plan a garden that feeds you through the year? Join us for our Food Forest course this November, or come along to one of our Permaculture Design Courses here in central Portugal.

04/10/2026

This year we're turning our pears into perry (pear c***r), and we're running a little experiment while we're at it.

Here's what we did:

1⃣ Picked the pears and froze them whole. Freezing breaks down the cell walls, so when they thaw they give up far more juice.
2⃣ Defrosted and pressed them.
3⃣ Sieved out the skins and pulp.
4⃣ Left the juice overnight so the sediment could settle, then siphoned the clear juice off the top.
5⃣ Split it into three bottles, each with its own job:

🍐 Bottle 1: wild yeast only. Nothing added, just whatever lives on our pears.
🍷 Bottle 2: white w**e yeast, for a clean and reliable ferment.
🫙 Bottle 3: pear c***r vinegar! It ferments first, then we'll add our homemade kombucha vinegar as a starter.

We made our own airlocks by drilling a hole through corks that fit the bottles. Simple and it works.

Now we wait. It should be ready to drink in the spring, and we'll let you know which bottle wins.

Wild or cultured yeast, which would you back? 👇

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03/10/2026

Always trying to find ways to increase our self sufficiency. This is our 6th year growing luffa, a vegetable that when dried can be used as a sponge for dishes or body wash. The best part is each one comes with a full supply of seeds for next year's planting.

Now the real challenge, anyone got ideas on how to grow an equivalent of a toothbrush?

Want to learn more about growing your own everyday essentials? Join us for our Food Forest course this November, or come along to one of our Permaculture Design Courses here in central Portugal.

02/10/2026

You never know what can happen on a Friday night. Tonight we are harvesting corn in the dark before it rains.
Farm life does not stick to a schedule. The forecast changed, so instead of a quiet evening it is headlamps on and getting the corn in before the rain hits.
Want to experience farm life like this yourself? Join us for our Food Forest course this November, or come along to one of our Permaculture Design Courses here in central Portugal.

29/09/2026

Our son has lived on a farm since the day he was born, and he is already training to be a shepherd.
At 8 months old, that mostly means being carried out to the sheep field and getting used to the sounds and smells of farm life early. Long before he takes any real interest, he is already growing up immersed in it.
Want your family to experience farm life too? Join us for our Food Forest course this November, or come along to one of our Permaculture Design Courses here in central Portugal.

Endereço

Mata Da Rainha
Aldeia Da Mata Da Rainha
6230-810

Website

http://www.keelayogafarm.com/

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