This article was originally published in NBH - The International Journal for Bee-Centred Beekeeping, NBH28/2023. I wrote the article in spring 2023. © Erkki Pöytäniemi Main photo above: Our apiary in January 2019 We live in SW Finland c. 90 km west from Helsinki at...
Erkki has held courses on Apicentric Beekeeping every spring since 2016. The courses have been in Finnish apart from a 2019 and 2023 courses in English. Erkki held a "Caring for Bees" workshop at the Nordic Permaculture Festival in Norway in 2023 and has written about...
(for English scroll down) Suomen Luonnon Päivää vietetään lauantaina 26.8.2023 ja silloin voit tulla myös tutustumaan Iso-orvokkiniittyyn ja pyrkimykseemme kehittää täällä kestävämpää elämäntapaa. Mitä on permakulttuuri? Mikä on LAND keskus? Tervetuloa tutustumaan...
online course 22. and 23. April 2023 Erkki has held courses on Apicentric Beekeeping every spring since 2016. The courses have been in Finnish apart from a 2019 course in English. First the courses were in Karjalohja but since Covid19 (2020) they have been online,...
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...
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...
Erkki has held a course on "Beecentric Beekeeping with topbar hives" at Karjalohja since 2016 following Patrick Sahlman's course in April 2016. Those courses have been in Finnish but now there seems to be demand for a course in English. The course will be held on 5th...
Quite a few of you have asked me if I could hold my beekeeping course "Beecentric beekeeping" (Mehiläisempää mehiläishoitoa) (focusing on beekeeping in top-bar hives) in English this spring. I have 2 alternative dates for the course. In both cases it would be held at...
This article is part of Erkki's Permaculture Diploma Portfolio (2nd article). [Erkki’s DPA main page][The Portfolio] Previous article: 60 Degrees North, 23 East Karjalohja Karjalohja, where Iso-orvokkiniitty is located, is situated in the western Uusimaa region 85 km...
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...