Miscellaneous

Hello And Welcome!!

Beautiful poppies in our “huerta” (allotment). Dina, one of my five cats, posing next to them.

Well here I am, so excited to be able to start my own blog, something I have been wanting to do for some time. I shall be blogging about all sorts of topics but they will mostly be based around our way of life in Benissa, Alicante, Spain.

I will be sharing with you how we grow most of our own organic produce and the ins and outs of caring for the land, with mistakes that we make along the way!! Also recipes and uses for the veggies, fruits, herbs, nuts, etc that we harvest throughout the year.

Pep with his first ever 20 kilo pumpkin!!

Most of the recipes I share will be vegan and plant based and all made from scratch, although occasionally I will use eggs from our free range chickens and a tin of tuna might pop up once in a while! The recipes will often be seasonal as we tend to use what we have harvested at the time, we both agree that this is the healthiest way to eat but, when we have a surplus of something in particular then we find ways to preserve it so nothing gets thrown away. The freezers definitely come in handy here as well as plenty of jars!!

Along the way I will also post different walking routes that we go on as well as visits to restaurants and other places I think could be of interest. We live in a beautiful area with great weather and stupendous scenery which we try to make the most out of and my aim is to try and share all of this as best I can with you.

Me at the restaurant that does our favourite veggie paella

We often travel to different parts of Spain for our holidays when we get the chance, whether it’s a quick weekend away somewhere relatively close or at least a week somewhere further afield. Wherever it may be I shall share our travels on this blog too so it’s not just centered around this area, there are tons of wonderful places to experience in this country and it’s always a joy finding new ones.

Montefrío, Granada province. It was selected by National Geographic as one of the best views in the world and I must admit, it’s pretty spectacular.

I shall also use this blog for mentioning the Spanish (Castellano) and sometimes Valenciano terms for all sorts of things that I’ll be talking about and if you have any questions regarding how to say something in Spanish or Valenciano please don’t hesitate to ask me.

If you would like to contact us about anything there is a link to the contact page in the top and bottom menus, feel free to do so, I look forward to hearing from you. Also the link to the “about us” page is there too if you’d like to read a bit about our history and how we ended up doing what we love.

For now I shall say cheerio, obviously at this moment the blog is very bare but I’m hoping to change that very shortly. As this is the first post, the links you’ll find in the menu don’t have anything in them, I’m just getting them ready as I have all sorts of topics I want to talk about and I’m eager to start writing about all of them, but “poc a poc” as they say around here!! Little by little it shall start taking shape!! Take care and see you very soon, love Georgie and Pep xxx

18 Comments

  • Kirsten

    Hi Georgie
    My husband and I wil be starting a new Spanish adventure in your region within the next couple of years and during my research I came across your blog.
    Can I just say thank you for such inspiring and informative posts. I have subscribed and I am looking forward to your future news.
    In the meantime I am going back to the first post and then will enjoy reading them all.
    Hope you enjoy the rest of your day!

    • Georgie

      Hi Kirsten. Thank you for your lovely comment, I’m so pleased you’re enjoying my blog. I wish you lots of luck and happiness in your future adventures in Spain. Have a lovely day too 😊xx

  • Belinda Crick

    Hi Georgie & Pep, I’m delighted to see you are setting up your blog, and wish you every success.

  • Vivienne

    Looking forward to trying some of your recipes. Although still meat eaters we do try and have meat free days and a more vegan approach to eating.

  • Will

    Hi Georgie – congrats on your blog and looking forward to your advice and ideas for growing on the Costa Blanca.
    Are questions posted here?
    for instance –
    if I grow an avocado from seed and it took 2 years to grow to half a meter in a large pot- how long before it will bear fruit after transplanting? Now in year 5 and no fruit.
    thanks!

    • Georgie

      Hi Will. You can either post them on here or use the “contact us” page on the site. Avocados are funny things, I know people that have had a tree for years and never had any fruit. They like a sunny spot but they also need constant humidity but without saturating them. It’s also a good idea to have at least 2, preferably different species, for example the Hass variety goes well with the Bacon variety. Do you have the plant in the ground now? I presume you mean that you transplanted it after 2 years. They don’t like strong wind as this effects the blossoming of the tree and this could also be a cause of it not giving fruit. Supposedly, until the tree is big enough to give the trunk shade, you have to protect the trunk with some sort of opaque material so the sun doesn’t dry it out. If the trunk is brown it means that the sun has dried out the trunk, it should be green or possibly grey when it’s a bigger tree. An avocado can take up to 10 years to give fruit and if the conditions aren’t adequate for the tree (wrong ph in the earth, wind, not enough water) it might never happen, especially if it’s planted from seed. How big is your tree now?

  • Lesley Forbes

    Back in the UK we had the Good Life in Shropshire, I kept goats. Well done both of you and look forward to reading all about your exploits .

    • Georgie

      Thank you!! I’d love to have a couple of goats but there’s not enough room here, they’d end up eating all our veggies!!

  • shelagh mortis

    Sounds great Georgie can’t wait to get some tips and wonderful recipes.Good luck to you both hope your blog is very successful.

    Shelagh

    • Christine Farmer

      That sounds great Georgie, good luck to you. My daughter and grandchildren are in England and your ideas and recipes will be ideal to give me ideas on what to feed them when they visit us as they are vegan too.

      • Georgie

        Thank you so much. Hope you like the recipes, you’ll have to let me know what you think x

  • Melva Bates

    Great idea Georgie. Will be following and picking up tips along the way. Keep on growing in the veggie sense 😂😂😂