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 …

Starting from September 2018, Ina and I have rented an allotment at an association nearby. Ina quit the allotment in January 2023. I have ended our contract with the association in December 2024.

This survey lists the species found in the garden in 2024.

This list is part of the …

Some of the patterns most businesses will face at some point.

• legal structure
  • See Wikipedia: List of legal entity types by country
  • what capital requirement is needed for its foundation
• record keeping
  • bookkeeping
    • what counts as business expense
    • what counts as income
    • is the business liable for taxes
      • VAT
      • income …

In English:

Beneath the hectic of the outside world is rest.

Beneath the chatter of everyday is silence.

Beneath the judgements of people is love.

May you find this rest, silence and love.

In Dutch:

Onder de hectiek van de buitenwereld ligt rust.

Onder het geroezemoes van alledag ligt stilte …

Zones in permaculture is a concept for roughly categorizing areas according to ease and/or frequency of access.

This is a type of shadow work. It helped me tremendously and I am thankful for having found these through the writings of John Michael Greer. He published the teachings starting in July 2021.

Back then, he wrote:

Spiritual alchemy begins with the transmutation of the emotional life. This is …

I use periodic reviews in order to keep track of the main currents in my life. The day to day is too chaotic to discern much structure. Looking back over longer periods of time teases these patterns out in the open. It's similar to canoeing in a white water river …

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

Looby Macnamara's Design Web is a design process. You can read about it in her book People & Permaculture. I resonate with using its anchor points and allowing jumping between points as questions come up and get answered.

The tool gives 12 different anchor points to use as a starting point …