The index 2004-2011

We have been writing monthly notes for our site since 2004. A person wanting to get a taste of the Casa Cares experience can read through the index below and choose those notes that might be of particular interest. Just scroll down. Themes return regularly: Tuscany, history, guests, purpose, the land, volunteers, the facility.

Internet news index

2004

July – Counting blessings
August – The comings and goings, Life as usual
September – Positively into September
October – Blackberries, grapes, chestnuts, mushrooms, even sloe
November – Various guests
December – Long-term guests and harvest

2005

February – Ready for the new season
April – Waldensian guesthouses
May – Volunteering
June – Spring into summer
August – Treasures
September – A mid-summer pause
October – Into the autumn
November – The photo album

2006

January – The olive harvest
February – The simple life
March – Winter preparations
April – Into the normal season, the juggling act
May – Positive notes
June – Lots of movement: guests, honey, veggie garden
August – A curious reunion
September – Tomatoes + volunteers = excellent pummarola
October – A perfect time to visit
November – Positive or negative?
December – Coming full circle—almost

2007

January – Look back, look forward
February – Toward the other
March - Mind-wandering while pruning the fruit trees
April – Entrusted…volunteers’ reunion
May – Time to check the photo album
May – Arrivals of olive blossoms and guests
June – On the edge of Europe, In the middle of the Mediterranean
August – Retreat to the hills
September – How did these volunteers get here!?
October – Looking for olive pickers
November – Some changes
December – Sowing and reaping, Volunteering, Tuscan off season

2008

January – A network of hosts from the Alps to Sicily
February – Notes from 2007
March – Notes on 2008
April – For the environment
May – Groups coming and going
June – Reading our surroundings
July – A jump in the pool
August – Alternative tourism
September – Too much Tuscan sun?
October – Without the volunteers?
November – A green year
December – 100% Olive Oil

2009

March – Busy Winter, New Season
April – Instructions on how to use
May – A hundred years on the farm
June – Was that May or Was that Summer?
July – Why Tuscany?
August – From Middle Ages to Computer
September – Where’s the blackberry plantation? Family reunions
October – Hectic & peace/City & countryside
November – Transition
December – Olives and solar panels – why bother?
2010

January – Classroom Italia
February – Full moon and gypsies: The times have changed
March – The marketing of Tuscany
April – Self-catering, Various groups, Volunteers
May – The simple life
June –Once a farm, always a farm?
July – Time to care for the chapel
August – Volunteers for the chapel and for the olives
October – Fruitful reunions, Vegetable-full garden
November –When things go well….
December – Olive adaptation

2011
February-March – Ready for the months ahead
April – Verso il Futuro
May – A Month of Celebration!
June – God and a Laugh
July – Summer Retreat
August – What we aren’t, What we are
September – The Index 2004-2011