Lockdown options for more natural resilience

Lockdown options for more natural resilience

How lockdown can bring us closer to ourselves and our natural environment. Now that the coronavirus pandemic has forced normality into our country, it creates space to pause, reflect, and empathize. Many workshops and courses are canceled, we can’t go to...
Video workshop: food forest edge in your garden

Video workshop: food forest edge in your garden

Want to know how to create a food forest edge in your garden? In this video workshop, I’ll show you how to grow more delicious things in your garden. Perfect for those with a passion for greenery! Content: You’ll see a 7-year-old food forest. You’ll learn how to...
How do we care? Foodforest care manifesto.

How do we care? Foodforest care manifesto.

In these sensitive times, my reflections often are about care. How do we care? How do we care for ourselves? For the earth, for the natural being that we are and that we inhabit. For all our natural relations? Air, Water, Fire, Earth and everything that arises and...
What do Easter and mushrooms have in common?

What do Easter and mushrooms have in common?

The line between life and death is thin on Easter. I once learned that Jesus rose on this day. We see this in our food forest too; it seems as if nature is resurrecting itself from winter. The trees are budding, the blossoms are blooming, and everywhere, perennials...
Reflections on health in relation to food forests.

Reflections on health in relation to food forests.

In times of restrictions on freedom (face masks, curfew), I’m inspired to share with you about illness and health from the food forest at De Weegbree. I don’t believe in the idea that we get sick from each other when we come close, when we expel droplets or moisture....