Claire's Blog

Life blossoms as temperatures rise: far more flowers, babies born, and creatures emerging from pupa adapting to their new shapes. Meanwhile Derviş settles in for the 2021 seasonal work pace.

Sowing seeds: potato, pumpkin, watermelon and melon.  Travelling during lockdown with a Farmer's Certificate, we easily passed through the road checks. 

Something unplanned turning up can take you somewhere you'd never have been otherwise...

After collecting the entrance to the dome from Vahit usta, our team spent the day working how to break the pure geometry of the 25m2 structure.  Spring flowers are blossoming.  

Despite the cold, plants are coming to life, many rosettes radiating between the spinach plants. 

İnci called the first gathering of team of the new UNDP project, Kırcan. 

Osman usta, a local stone mason, prepared the foundations for the dome.  For the next 3 months, the cows and their calves have their right to milk - no more milk, butter, cheese or yogurt for a while.