Building a Deadwood twig fence for our garden bugs.
Around here, we don’t like letting good materials go to waste. After a round of roadside tree maintenance around our community and a big plum of our rose bushes, we were left with a massive pile of branches. Instead of Read More
Celebrating Lughnasad – My Personal Project at Kurki Ecovillage
What is Lughnasad? On July 31, a rainy summer day already giving a taste of the fading season, we celebrated Lughnasad at Kurki Ecovillage. With the help of gentle harvest-magick practices we took a moment to slow down and honour Read More
Collecting Seeds: Nettle and Plantain
And then it’s August again. Summer has made you tired. What is it about this month that makes you feel a certain sense of decay? Is it the season coming to its end, with its last flowers barely hanging on, Read More
Seeing the growth of our seeds
Growing tomatoes, zuchini, pumpkin, kale and a lot more. There is something so deeply satisfying about watching a seed you planted push its way up through the soil and transform into a living, thriving plant. I think it’s an understatement Read More
Thoughts on “Slow Living” + Surprise Recipe
What would make you decide to leave your home and spend up to nine months in an Ecovillage in Finland? Talking to the other ESC volunteers I realized that it’s often the wish for change of pace that made them Read More
Picking & learning about wild plants
Picking pineconeees from a fallen tree Plants we picked:-Plantain (plantago major) -Thistle-Tusilago farfara (the big leaves)-Chamaenerion angustifolium-Geum Rivale (chocolate root) Kurki Team in action
Varttaminen – how to create BETTER fruit trees
Grafting – varttaminen in Finnish – is a traditional gardening technique used to combine different sorts of fruit trees. Today we learned how to combine the roots of a strong and resilient but otherwise not so tasty apple tree with Read More
Basketball Hummus
Recipe / 1 person-150g cooked chickpeas-10g Tahini-oil 20g-lemon It was so tasty that there was nothing left of the ball after the lunch, everyone enjoyed it
Hummus (1 person)
Howdy! Today I will teach you how to cook a funny little thing called hummus! So, first of all, the ingredients (for 1 portion, I recomend you make at least 5 portions): If you use the dried cheekpeas put them Read More