Curly Creek Ranch

25/05/2025

Thanks to .vreugdenhil and Dasha, their lovely friends Joelle and Max, together with the fantastic Dutch WWOOOFing family we have with us at the moment (it was quite the Dutch invasion hahaha), we managed to get 80% of the summer garden planted in one day om Friday!

With our new seed germination set up, about half the plants in the garden are ours, which is so exciting. We've learned a lot this year, and hopefully, for next year, we'll get to 80%!

Having a resource base to be able to lean into for group activities such as this is key to making smaller-scale production work. We had a yummy lunch in between with our own chicken, pancetta from and beef from as well as vegetables from the gardens and eggs from our chickens. But the feast wenr too fast to take photos, hahah.

Thank you to everyone for your help!

21/05/2025

It's Wednesday, so it must be delivery day! We're in that tricky in-between season where the winter brassicas are finished, and we've yet to put in the summer garden (on Friday!) so it's just fava beans, little gem lettuces, chard, and of course, !

11/04/2025

Come join us at the ranch this summer for this course in English! This only one all year!

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🗓️ 1𝟲 𝗝𝘂𝗹𝘆 - 𝟮𝟲 𝗝𝘂𝗹𝘆 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 > 10 days (with a one-day break on 21 July to rest our brains)⁣
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✅ What you’ll learn:⁣
· Holistic Management fundamentals
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🌿 Live off-grid, eat local, and connect with a global community of learners. Plus, explore Pamplona & San Sebastián!⁣
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05/04/2025

Hoth is growing so fast! He's such a sweetheart but also very brave, learning the boundaries of the ranch so he can protect it. He's going to be huge, so we're soaking up all these puppy cuddles while we can!

23/03/2025

Welcome, Hoth! Thanks to the amazing , Hoth joined our family this week to protect the ranch like Harry used to do (when he grows up, of course!).

He's got big shoes to fill, but he's already showing himself to be brave (he has no problem barking at Khora when she's telling him off or intiating play). He's quickly learned who his new daddy is and literally follows Iñigo around like a puppy.

He's going to be a big guy, probably bigger than Khora's 50kg, but for now we're getting in all the hugs and cuddles we can since he'll be too big to carry around soon enough!



P.S. 100 points to whoever guesses what his name means, hahaha

02/03/2025

It was a snowy morning but thanks to a great team (whom we neglected to get pictures of...oops!), today we planted 25 apple trees for cider as well as a few Ash, oak and maple we had hanging around looking for a new home. It's pretty late in the season for planting trees, but better late than never! This year, our tree transplants had a bokashi base, a bunch of great looking homemade compost, and proper protection from nibblers, so hopefully, we have a good success rate!

18/01/2025

No filters! Not black and white, just heavy frost overnight with -5c at 10 am. Crazy! Luckily, we've got most of our ground covered and protected with living roots.

Oh, who's that?? Yep, Jolene gave birth Thursday night! She had twins, but the tiny one didn't make it. This tough little man is strong, though, and his cousins are doing great, too!

14/01/2025

It's freezing cold, but the sun is out, so the baby goats finally got onto grass for the first time. Normally, they would have been outside long before now, but it's been non-stop rain for weeks, and Mama just wasn't interested in going out.

Xena and Khora have been guarding the babies from outside the stall door since they were born, so it was time to finally watch over them in real life!

I'm guessing Jolene has at least another month before she pops, so let's see!

13/01/2025

Thank you to Anne and Ricardo of for visiting us this weekend on your way back home to the Netherlands! We loved the opportunity to get to know you guys better, learn from your experiences, and exchange on the best ways to engage with students in our courses.

Anne and Ricardo are amongst the 70+ farming families who make up the European Alliance for Regenerative Agriculture (EARA), and we're proud to get to fight alongside them for the future agro-food ecosystem we deserve.

20/12/2024

Baby goats are great for cuddles! Even more when there's twins (and cousins!). We're still waiting for Jolene to pop, but I expect it will be another month, still. And they just the cutest?? Iñigo isn't half bad either, hahah.

24/11/2024

A few days early this year since we'll be spending "real Thanksgiving day" in Germany, but it sure felt real to us. Surrounded by so much love from true friends as we gathered to celebrate our blessings and another year's bountiful harvest. Even the miracle last minute purchase of green jello arrived just in time, even though its delivery looked like it would come too late.

Our own turkey we stuffed with bread and onions and celery from the garden, garden potatoes mashed up just right, walnut pie (even a gluten and lactose free version for Iñigo), sweet potato pie from Pepe's garden (which we'll grow next year!), organic cranberry sauce, and beautiful flower arrangements thanks to raiding the garden. They came from Madrid, Bilbao, and Barcelona to celebrate with us, the greatest blessing of all.

For those of you who still have a few more days to wait, Happy Thanksgiving!

10/11/2024

Winter is coming. The last sunset before a truly chilly 4c morning. We're moving quickly into the slow growing period, so we'll shift how we graze the horses until late February when the grass will start growing quickly again. It's a time for rest, for reflection, and planning before the spring kicks us into action again.