In Erkki’s kitchen (pesto)

In Erkki’s kitchen (pesto)

1.7.2020 We live in the countryside trying to follow an ecological lifestyle and have quite a big garden where we try to homestead following permaculture principles and produce all kind of stuff and even foraging wild food and growing some unusual things like shiitake...

Rye Bread baking day

Rye Bread baking day

Finally it was cold enough so that it makes sense to warm up our baking oven. In the summer I don't bake and that makes life a bit difficult because good organic bread is not available in the local supermarkets. Maybe one day I need to build a summer baking oven...

60 degrees North, 23 East

60 degrees North, 23 East

This article is part of my Permaculture Diploma Portfolio. [Erkki's DPA main page][The Portfolio] Our coordinates at Iso-orvokkiniitty in Karjalohja are lat 60° 13.985'  lon 23° 41.966’. So we are in South-West Finland 85 km west from Helsinki. 60° North is pretty...