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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...

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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...

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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...

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Bees at Iso-orvokkiniitty

Bees at Iso-orvokkiniitty

Bees and permaculture Bees as key pollinators are so central to any cultivated or natural system that it seems obvious that a permaculture system should have bees. When we started planning our project it was immediately clear to me that this is one of the things I...

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