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Portugal offers a variety of farm tours that provide visitors with the opportunity to explore the country’s agricultural traditions, taste local products, and experience rural life. Here are some types of farm tours you might consider in Portugal: Wine Tours in Douro Valley: The Douro Valley is one of the oldest wine regions in the…

Instead of choosing your beer at the store or local craft brewery, why not make it at home? With a home brewery system, you become the brewmaster: make beer suited to your particular taste, all in the convenience of your own home (or garage). People have been making beer for ages, and craft beers have…

The technical name is heliciculture, but in practice it is the production of snails. The summery snack of many Portuguese can be an interesting business, especially the “caracoleta”, whose size allows year-round income and with a price that compensates for its captive exploitation. The Helix aspersa maxima are hermaphrodites, so it is here that the question of…

  The culture of Banana was introduced in the Madeira Island during its settlement, however, only from the twentieth century has its cultivation and commercialization abroad gained more expression. The first reference to the presence of banana cultivation on the island dates from 1552, when the British Thomas Nichols passed through the island, which reported it among the existing cultures. The date of the introduction is, in fact, unknown, pointing out, due to this account, to the sixteenth century. The orography of the Island, which is characterized by marked relief, conditioned the way the farm was organized. The vast majority of farms are small in size and are terraced with stone walls. Small parcels of land, as far as the banana plantations are concerned, together form more than 700 hectares, representing a considerable part of the entire cultivated area of the Island….

  Aromatic plants or herbs are plants, usually of small dimensions, whose leaves and other green parts usually the leaves, give off aromas that modify extraordinarily our cuisine enriching the food, not only with its smell but also with its flavor. Usually, in the kitchen, herbs are used fresh, but are also commercialized dried, although they lose some properties. In any case, they should not be confused with spices, which are generally used dried and often reduced to powder. The herbs have been used since time immemorial and, according to some researchers, have followed the migrations and the evolution of the people who used them, including protecting their health, due to their antimicrobial properties that not only prevent some infections, but also deterioration of fresh food. In addition, many of these plants have medicinal properties, mainly in the facilitation of…

  Strawberry is a fruit rich in antioxidants, vitamins A, E, C, B5 and B6, calcium, iron and other minerals and low in calories. It is the easiest fruits to grow in garden, balcony or flower pot. Source Strawberries are plants originating in the temperate zones of the northern and southern hemispheres, which belong to the genus Fragaria. The common or garden strawberry is the result of a hybrid produced in the eighteenth century in France between Fragaria chiloensis and Fragaria virginiana, sometimes called Fragaria x ananassa. Other good options for the garden are the already mentioned Chilean strawberry (Fragaria chiloensis) and the alpine or wild strawberry (Fragaria vesca). They are plants well adapted to our climate and easy to grow. Properties and uses The strawberry is a fruit very much appreciated and one of the favorite of children. However,…

  With the changes in the consumption model that have occurred since globalization, when consumers could have access to any product of any place, the need of the consumer turned to the satisfaction of novelties that stimulate your senses and feelings. Today, products and services awaken unique emotions and make sense. Because of this new configuration, experience-based service, which provides pleasure that will remain in the memory, causing the client to develop an emotional connection with the service and so the company differentiates itself from competition in the eyes of the consumer. Tourism itself is an inherently experiential activity because the individual leaves his usual place to live in the space of others, different from his routine. However, the way this destination is presented to the traveler traditionally leaves a margin of detachment from the local reality. In traditional tours,…

  Among the so-called small fruits, raspberry is one of the most cultivated species. They are highly appreciated for their highly fragrant aroma and for their sometimes sweet, sometimes acidic flavor. We try to find a little corner in the garden for some plants. In order to be successful, it is important to take into account some important aspects. Due to the advances and developments that have occurred over the last few years, it is possible to have raspberries throughout most of the year. However, let’s just focus on unskilled “home-made” production. It should be noted that there are many species of raspberries and that they fall into two categories. Remnants and non-remontantes. Confused? It’s simple. Reminiscent is the designative of the plant that blossoms without ceasing throughout the season itself, or whose flowering is repeated several times in the…

  Originally from Northeast Asia, it has been gaining some non-Western fame for its gastronomic and therapeutic interest. Cultivated over a thousand years ago in China, this species of edible mushroom is currently one of the most produced in the world. Discover the mysteries that hide this appreciated food. In their natural habitat, fungi tend to develop strategies of biological control in order to be able to compete among the multiple microorganisms that cohabit their environment. One of the strategies is the production of certain chemical compounds that fungi can release into the environment in which they live. These include, but are not limited to, antibiotic substances that are designed to reduce competing bacteria that may harm them in the fight against their energy sources for food. Throughout history, humankind has been able to take advantage of some of these…

  Beekeeping is the art of breeding bees that aims to produce honey, propolis, pollen, beeswax and poison. Besides, and not least, bees are very important pollinators. Discover the Love for Bees The Bee always played an essential role in nature, despite being a well-known insect and devalued by many,has also played an important role in the world of humans. History In ancient history, a man picking honey from hives of wild bees during the process destroys those hives. This has never been a problem is like any other sport made in nature. Destroy this one, go to another one there … But, many thousands of years ago, man learned to harness the power of bees to produce their delicious nectar – Honey. It is difficult to know when beekeeping, or bee keeping, has in fact become a structured process,…

  Forty-seven percent of the time, the average mind is wandering. It wanders about a third of the time while a person is reading, talking with other people, or taking care of children. It wanders 10 percent of the time, even, during sex. And that wandering, according to psychologist Matthew Killingsworth, is not good for well-being. A mind belongs in one place. During his training at Harvard, Killingsworth compiled those numbers and built a scientific case for every cliché about living in the moment. In a 2010 Science paper co-authored with psychology professor Daniel Gilbert, the two wrote that “a wandering mind is an unhappy mind.” For Killingsworth, happiness is in the content of moment-to-moment experiences. Nothing material is intrinsically valuable, except in whatever promise of happiness it carries. Satisfaction in owning a thing does not have to come during the moment it’s acquired, of…

  Once upon a time there was a small country, but something changed. The world seems to be wanting to know Portugal and all the nature, beaches, magical cities and the landscapes that move or more travelers, Portugueses or Tourists who experience. Here it´s the list of ” Things to do in Portugal ” behind the touristic places: Wine Tasting Tours The past is known in terms of collective memory. The very notion of identity is linked to that which endures, to what distinguishes and to what is remembered. So, in this context, we invite you to take a short journey through the History of Vine and Wine in Portugal! Book a guided tour of the best wineries, caves and farms and wine tastings in the best wine regions of Portugal. Wine Tasting in a 19th-Century Winery This company was established by Abel Pereira…