Visit to vegetable garden in winter

As you might remember volunteers of MOJU work not only with kids, but also we have a little vegetable garden in "Ecoteca". We experiment there, check our skills and hope for vegetables to grow.

Because of a lot of rains and holidays we didn't visit our land around one month. And wonder happened! After rainy weeks our plot became all green, wild plants which before were more or less exterminated growing everywhere. At the same time cucumbers, spinach and salsa were also bigger and much more than before.

We brought part of the harvest home and made a big salad with all of the harvest and avocado.

Climate challange

Coming to the south Portugal we all expect to have warm sunny days. And its true! After -5C in Ukraine I came on 17th of January to Algarve, the warmest region in Portugal, and took off my light Autumn coat, having +23C. I remember that day very good - Hungarian volunteer Lisy met me just in t-shirt. I was feeling so good, warming myself on the sun. We had sun in winter almost every day and for the whole day. Having so much sun was like a paradise for me. We even based in the ocean in the super cold water.

BUT, not all days are so warm and there is no central heating inside houses. So, in winter, at daytime it's colder inside the buildings than outside. It's a problem, especially, when rooms are not on the  sun side. For me and Lisy it was hard to get used to coldness at home, so we used electric heaters a lot.