Vinagra Village is one of the 40 replicators approved in 2022 that have embraced the responsibility to protect land by using adaptative strategies to ensure a safer planet for present and future generations.

In finance, where I spent most of my life, there is a theory that suggests that asset price volatility and historical returns will revert to the average. We call it reversion to the mean. I am now trying to apply that theory to farming. The last 2 years have been very dry, with almost no rain, so I expect this year will revert to the mean, with more rain.

Here in the Alentejo, after the big storms in December that brought us much needed water, temperatures are falling. It's been a very cold week here. Each night, the mercury plunged to 2º centigrade making it cold enough to have white frosty fields in the mornings.