Nettle Soup

Posted on wo 14 mei 2025 in recipes • Tagged with recipe

Quantity: ~2 liter, 6-8 servings

Ingredients:

  • cooking oil / butter
  • 1 onion
  • 2-3 cloves garlic
  • 2 potatoes
  • 2 carrot / 1 winter carrot
  • nettle tops (top 3-4 pair of leaves)
  • water
  • dash of (apple) vinegar
  • salt

Extra:

  • 1 top of mugwort (bijvoet)
  • 2 stems of fennel (venkel)
  • 2 stems of lovage (lavas …

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Four Questions (4Q)

Posted on di 13 mei 2025 in tools • Tagged with permaculture, 4 questions

The Four Questions is an evaluating tool. The four questions are:

  • What went well?
  • What would I do differently?
  • What is my vision?
  • What is my next step?

Let's expand on each question.

What went well?

List all the things that went well in your project, presentation, relationship, life or …


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Six Ways To Die (6WTD)

Posted on do 08 mei 2025 in tools • Tagged with 6 ways to die, Simple Critical Infrastructure Maps

The Six Ways To Die (6WTD) is a tool proposed by Vinay Gupta to help individuals and groups quickly identify urgent needs of individuals in a crisis. It explains what basic infrastructure needs to be in place for people to survive to the next day.

The six ways to die …


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Workshop Financial Know How

Posted on za 19 april 2025 in workshop • Tagged with workshop, personal finance, forms of capital

This workshop is currently in the dreaming phase (see Dragon Dreaming). I use this document to collect things I would want to say about the topic of money and personal finance. I appreciate feedback on it. Leave me a message via the contact form.

Background

I see people struggle with …


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Financial metrics

Posted on za 05 april 2025 in tools • Tagged with saving rate, safe withdrawal rate, burn rate, life energy

How much you have

Add together all your bank accounts, investment accounts, retirement accounts (if you can access them), estimates on the value of your house.

Then subtract any debts, mortgages and other financial obligations from that.

How much you make

Take your employers payment slip from the last year …


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OODA loop

Posted on za 05 april 2025 in tools • Tagged with OODA, permaculture, Holmgren principles

OODA is an abbreviation for the words: Observe, Orient, Decide, Act. Developed and taught by John Boyd, a US military pilot, as a mental model for training other pilots.

Observe is about overseeing the whole, everything, facts and emotions, the different players and their (apparent) motives, culture and history and …


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How to choose an (allotment) garden?

Posted on zo 30 maart 2025 in blog

Below you'll find a number of questions to ask yourself and others. If you are serious about starting with an allotment or any other kind of garden, these questions can help you make a clear choice.

Reasons for starting a garden

  • Why do you want a garden?
    • Your goal and …

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Some time in the dark

Posted on do 27 maart 2025 in blog

Earlier this year I have spent over 10 days in complete darkness, with almost no contact with the outside world. It was the second retreat of this kind I have done. The first was a year earlier where I spend over five days in darkness.

To say it is a …


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Biochar Cooker

Posted on wo 29 januari 2025 in tools • Tagged with permaculture, practical

We created this biochar cooker during the second week of my first PDC. It is made from two large drums and one smaller can.

Materials required

  • two drums with a lid of equal size (fuel drum and cooking support)
  • one larger drum (optional, air inlet skirt)
  • one can (chimney)
  • two …

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Tension and Trauma Releasing Exercises (TRE)

Posted on do 16 januari 2025 in tools

Tension and Trauma Releasing Exercises, or TRE for short, is a simple way to relax the body and shake out tensions. It uses the natural shaking mechanism present in every mammal for getting rid of tension.

Start by laying on the ground on a mat. Pull your legs up and …


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