This is a list of experiments Ina and I have been conducting during the summer of 2020.

• deepen experience with baking bread with sourdough starter
  • different types of flour
• ferments
  • using sourdough starter for things other than bread
• drying
  • nettle
  • mint
  • leaves of horseradish (blad mierik)
• growing seedlings
• growing cutlings …

I got this originally from an article from Appleseed Permaculture on 8 forms of capital from April 2011. I have added energy as the overarching type of capital as it is the basis for all the complexity and beauty we experience daily in our lives. To give you but one …

Here are some of my presentations on baking bread and using a sourdough starter.

• Introduction to Bread Making
• Bread Making - Step by Step

I have kept a record of the steps I take in making bread. Below is a table that shows the times for one such sessions. The introduction …

I use the following basic recipe for all my breads:

• 200g sourdough starter
• 700g whole meal flower
• 550g warm water
• salt to taste
• linseeds / sesame seeds / sunflower seeds to taste

On this site I have dedicated a few articles to making bread. Peruse them at your leasure:

• Lessons learned baking …

Here is a presentation with an introduction to fermentation.

• Introduction to Fermentation

Putting together a personal philosophy can be helpful for focussing your energy. Keep it as a daily reminder in your journal, calendar or hang them somewhere you regularly see them.

Below are a few examples of personal philosophies. There are many more to choose from. You will notice recurring themes …

PMI stands for Plus, Minus, Interesting. It is an analysis tool for ranking between different options to find the one that may be best among the available alternatives at this point in time.

This is a tool I came across not too long ago. It can be used in discursive meditation.

The tool takes seven questions and combines them with seven concepts. So, if you have no clue on how to approach a subject, concept, text, image or other object to meditate on …

Mindmap of ERE

• why is it important to me?
  • freedom to persue my interests
  • takes money out of the decision making process
  • gets me out of the rat race
• resources
  • Jacob Lund Fisker's blog
  • ERE Forum
• insights
  • having no expenses means you don't need an income and you can immediately …

Contemplate on the notion that our global economy is alive and can be likened to an animal.

Key insights:

• alive:
  • requires at least a constant flow of energy to sustain itself
  • emergent behaviour from a large number of smaller elements
  • arises, persists over a period of time, fades away / dies …