Posted on 2019-11-28 12:13:00+01:00 in tools • Written by Arno Peters
This learning journey or guided journaling is sourced from precencing institute. See their guided journaling description for more details.
Look at yourself from outside as if you were another person: What are the 3 or 4 most important challenges or tasks that your life (work and non-work) currently …
Posted on 2019-11-26 09:13:00+01:00 in blog • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with experiment
I have been making bread regularly since 2017. As I look through the photo's I have made over the years I notice quite a shift in how I do things now versus how I did them when I started out.
Notable changes:
Posted on 2019-09-21 21:15:00+02:00 in surveys • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with permaculture, survey, site information, urban design, mapping, building design
Ina and I live in a house in a bloc constructed in 1957. Our house is a terraced house; we share two side walls with our neighbors. The house has three floors: the ground floor, the first floor and the attic.
Over the last years, Ina and I have …
Posted on 2019-08-28 19:37:00+02:00 in blog • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with experiment, season: summer
This is a list of experiments Ina and I have been conducting in July and Augst of 2019. Some things I put under several headings as they contain elements of both.
Posted on 2019-08-20 09:28:00+02:00 in blog • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with experiment
A few days ago a friend and I set out to do an experiment in distilling alcohol from a fermented sugar solution.
On 2019-04-13, I put the sugar ferment together as follows:
Yeast starter:
Sugar solution:
Posted on 2019-08-12 12:51:00+02:00 in tools • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with PMI, CARVER matrix
This tool is an extension of a PMI analysis. It uses six categories for ranking. Where in a PMI the focus is on finding plusses and minusses in which ever way you can think of, the CARVER matrix specifies what to think about and the focus is on ranking those …
Posted on 2019-04-22 21:02:00+02:00 in surveys • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with permaculture, survey, backyard, site information, PASTE, DAFOR(N)
This survey is part of designing the backyard.
The extra information for each plant is derived from the following sources:
Posted on 2019-04-15 14:06:00+02:00 in surveys • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with permaculture, food forest design, Nuenen, PASTE, season: spring
This is part of the design for a food forest in Nuenen.
This year we did a new PASTE survey. Data gathered 2019-04-15. See also the previous PASTE survey.
In this section we list the available plants, animals, structures, tools and events we have observed directly or indirectly at the …
Posted on 2019-04-08 12:51:00+02:00 in blog • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with community
Michael O. Church made a model of US social classes in 2012. The percentages given refer to US population numbers only. These models may have a limited correspondence to the social classes of Europe. I have taken the information from the original article and condensed it further.
Posted on 2019-03-17 20:57:00+01:00 in tools • Written by Arno Peters • Tagged with permaculture, practical
On Saturday 2019-03-16 I followed a course in hedgelaying. Heg&Landschap organized it in a village close by. Lex Roeleveld was the instructor.
From Wikipedia:
[...] The aim is to reduce the thickness of the upright stems of the hedgerow trees by cutting away the wood on one side of the …