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 …

A peg loom is a weaving technology that has been around since at least the Viking period - and probably much longer. The loom is made of a single log with holes at regular intervals. Each hole will fit a peg. Each peg has a hole near the bottom to allow …

I was looking for a way to create insulated insoles. I considered covering a piece of plastic with felt. As I looked around at what I had laying around to use as a felting template, I considered radiator foil.

The foil is made of a layer of foam and a …

Since mid 2017 I have been involved with gardening at the Proeftuin Meerhoven in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. This is a community garden maintained by volunteers in the neighborhood adjoining ours. We use the space with approval from the local council. The harvest from this garden has supplemented our lunches and …

This is a list of experiments Ina and I have been conducting in 2022.

• gardening
  • a third full year of having an allotment garden
  • involved in creating an edible lawn / tiny food forest
  • propagating more plant cuttings
    • elaeagnus varieties
    • fig varieties
    • grape
    • willow
    • red and black currants
• cooking / baking
  • making …

Two weeks ago I finally managed to complete the felted slippers we started almost four years ago at the Permacultuur Festival (2019) in Belgium. Even though they came out a bit rough, they are quite comfortable to wear. We found them to work exceptionally well in plastic clogs.

Yesterday I …

Let’s start with a question I get every time I say that I collect nettle seeds: “Why?” Well, for sowing, of course! ;-) … and other uses. So, why would you want to collect nettle seeds? Here are a few reasons (Source):

• nettles are a source of minerals: they contain iron …