We are always happy when they come to check on us, when they take a bite to eat with us from all the goodies there are in the garden.
So we try to disturb them as little as possible, watching them silently and motionless as they pass our garden...
We are eagerly waiting for the first flower of our sunflowers to open. We succesfully sowed them from seeds we bought as food.
But besides that, the sunflower is a very versatile plant. Of course, besides the seeds, we all know its oil. But in addition, the sunflower is also a source of medicine, fibre, dye, green manure...
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We all know the fly, that irritating beast that can cling to even the smoothest surface and spread all kinds of diseases. Flies are found almost everywhere on Earth, except at the poles and in the hottest deserts. So they are the most familiar insect, you might say…. But did you know that flies, yes, including that ordinary housefly, are important pollinators for lots of plants?
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In August last year, when we went to look at the "House For Sale" where we now live, there were 3 things we were super excited about: the huge variety of trees and plants, a small greenhouse, in serious need of restoration, and a root cellar, also known as an earth cellar or potato cellar, in a deplorable condition...
Healed by nature
We have now described 120+ species found in our forest garden, and we can safely say that our private pharmacy has something to offer for many, many ailments !
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End of May 2024. After a month without a drop, we finally had a decent rainshower yesterday. And you can see that in the garden….
Will you join me on a tour of the garden, with (mainly) food plants ?
This was our warm lunch today, a salad made of mainly vegetables from our own garden. A raw and wild recipe, as we like them best...
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One of the easiest ways to preserve the harvest from your garden is drying. This can be done for many types of vegetables and for quite a few fruits, as well as for herbs, teas and plants that you want to preserve for their medicinal properties.
And of course, a very important part of all preserving activities is harvesting and saving seeds for next year.
Let me tell you how and why...
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Did you know that heating your food (microwave, steam, boil, bake, wok, etc.) always comes at the expense of taste, health and nutritional value of your food?
The shorter you heat it, the better.
The shortest? Raw of course!
We eat our vegetables raw as much as possible and like to add “wild” to our meal.
Let me tell you how and why...
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I added three new pages to Food Forest Garden: What We Eat, What We Grow and Where We Grow It.
On the first page, I'll give you an overview of what we eat. Then I'll tell you what's in the garden, and finally where it is and the overall layout.
A few days ago I told you in a post about our work in our food forest garden.
There were so many positive comments, and so many requests to post regular updates, that I decided to dedicate a special page on my website to it.
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Now that the weather is getting warmer, we are continuing to 'build' our food forest garden. This weekend we planted several fruit and nut trees, together with a lot of herbs and a few more berry bushes...
Regenerative agriculture is an important topic in the conversation about the future of our food supply in a world where the that supply gets more and more disrupted.
And it is hot, because it is a much cleaner and healthier way of growing our food than the industrial agriculture we now rely on...
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