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
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
No gluten, diabetes friendly lentil bread rolls
No Gluten, Diabetes friendly lentil bread rolls Ingredients : Red Lentil Bread roll (4 person) Yellow Lentil Bread roll (4 person) Green Lentil Bread roll (4 person) Work Flow :