I came across this book when I was looking into the writings of Bob Waldrop. He was a Permaculture Designer living in Oklahoma City. He created a set of flyers called the Better Times Emergency Notes, which I republished on this site. He passed away in 2019.

In 2013 he …

I found these flyers a while ago and filed their location away in my archive. I recently came across them again and discovered the original website had vanished. Its creator, Bob Waldrop, has passed away in 2019.

Because the information contained in the flyers is helpful and compact, I wanted …

I have been using ledger-cli since 2015. At first only for my personal finances. To make it easier for myself, I use the CSV files I download from the bank and convert these into ledger-cli transaction files.

Later I incorporated my business records as well. This gave me a single …

Recently a friend mentioned she needed to write a business plan for her new business. The request was to include a section on financials.

Starting a new business is quite disruptive to the way you spend your time, your money and your energy. It helps to think through some of …

This is a continuation from My Permaculture Journey from 2016 to 2020.

On 2021-01-22 I started visiting and volunteering at Food Forest Eindhoven. At that time, it was one of the few activities I could physically go to due to the restrictions imposed on all of us at the time …

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.

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 …

I have done and tried a lot of different things.

The list below is probably not complete. I will try to give a brief overview of the tool and what it aims to achieve, based on my (limited) understanding and how it has helped me.

• Lindyhop Dancing

  To me, this …

I have decided end my contract with the allotment association. A number of factors have lead to this decision.

The allotment was evolving towards a miniature food forest. This meant that regular maintenance came down to mowing the "unwanted" plants about once a month.

I have found my enthousiasm for …

This is a list of experiments Ina and I have been conducting in 2024.

• gardening
  • the fifth, and final year of having an allotment garden
  • cleaning out the allotment garden and distributing the plants to other gardeners
  • helping out at Proeftuin Meerhoven
• spiritual development
  • morning pages
  • bullet journaling
  • regular meditation …