Women in Green: week 4
January is a great month to slow down and try to live like a hedgehog. Somehow that hibernation feeling comes naturally when you let it except it is much …
Categorie: Edible Wood Farm
working on an edible wood farm
Starting up: week 3 2019
Today I removed the last of the split oak posts and homemade rails between the posts in Doetinchem. I filled the long deep holes left by the posts with earth, …
It’s mushroom time week 36 – 39
The past few weeks have been too busy to write a weekly blog and that is really how it should be. This weekend is a break in a busy schedule. …
Moving on – week 34 & 35
Rain! What a wonderful phenomen. It is quite strange that people always associate rain with bad weather. The empty soaking basin had been partially filled by the many rainshowers but …
To soak or not to soak? – week 33
The recurrent showers and the lower daily temperature (20 – 25C) this past week had a refreshing result on a lot of the shrubs, grass and flowers. It was a …
Rain – week 32
The last load of logs was unloaded at a nearby urban vegetable garden complex on Monday morning. This was to be their temporary home until the water shortage problem at …
Evacuation plan – week 31
Monday was an office day. A day to rest the weary muscles after lifting 1.5 tons of logs in and out of the soaking basin yesterday. A time to think, take …
Drought – week 30
No more water. Forbidden. Started this week. Immediately. The use of ground water for agricultural or other purposes is no longer possible. Drought. The Netherlands, the land of water, built …
A Forest full of Food – week 29
Food forest, edible forest garden, permaculture – all are terms for ways of creating a sustainable food producing system based on the interactions between edible plants and their surroundings. Woody …
Wrinkles – week 28
“Waste not, want not” is a saying that I remember from my childhood in Australia. For years I had not thought about it but probably due to the increased attention …