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A Day at the Apple Juice Makers
This has been an extraordinarily good apple year. We have some apple trees in our garden, one of which made a huge harvest. Alone this tree grows more apples than we are both able to eat as fruit and in cakes. I like apple juice very much, but…
Sea Buckthorn Harvest
It's now time to pick the sea buckthorns, our name-giving plants delicious and vitamin-filled berries.
Poor Man's Cloudberry Jam
Here's a report on another jam I tried this summer. It's lovingly called the Poor Man's Cloudberry Jam, even though mine wouldn't fool anyone!
Learning How to Offshoot Bushes
When we started with our Nordic Permaculture we didn't have much clue about berry bushes. We simply bought what we needed from the garden shop and planted them.
Delicious Zucchini Chips
We have a lot of zucchinis. Though, with that many zucchinis the 1000 $ question is: what to do with them? You could stuff them, fry them, blend them to smoothies, give them away - or: dry them.
How We Chose Our Photovoltaic System
One of our early decisions when we started discussing moving to Finland was that we want to strive towards energy autonomy. Nick has lots of experience in DIY biogas (see Biogascentral) so we are eager…