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[…building alliances in the complex web of life…] […exploring more-than-sustainable practices…] […towards the other side of the anthropocene…] […living lab…] Below are a few sentences about cultiwilding in English and Danish. The term itself is a DIY-portmanteau [et gør-det-selv sammensat ord] where ‘cultivate’ is combined with a variation of wild …
Who are the cultiwilding people? Well… …We are here to cultivate our wildness. The wild being that which is out there, in the “natural world”. For argument’s sake, let’s not dwell on that difficult term, natural, and just suspend disbelief: out there where the bees and the trees do their …
Want to be a permaculture volunteer in Denmark? We welcome volunteers to join us in learning journeys, observing and engaging with the 28360 m2 (or 7 acres) that we have assumed responsibility and duty of care for. We are no practical experts and cannot teach you highly refined skills: we …
Four days of fun and games, talks and chilled chit chats; and, most of all, a lot of dancing! Nordic Permaculture Festival 2024, which took place on Himmelbjerggården, in the first weekend of August, hosted so warmly by Aslaug, Poul and the rest of the team, was a lovely and …
Som del af mit deltidsarbejde på SDU FoodLab har vi indledt et godt samarbejde med Steen Nørhede. Her er et lille skriv om en markvandring med Steen Nørhede, som vi var på fornylig. Teksten er først udgivet her: https://koldingfood2030.dk/markvandring-med-steen-norhede/ SDU FoodLab gik fornylig på markvandring med Steen Nørhede på Sandholm …
On Friday July 19, 2024, one of the greatest intellectual inspirations in the development of my own little mind sadly passed away. We did, however, unwittingly dance on his grave as he passed, just as I would have imagined he would have wanted it. A suitably loving fire and a …
Repair and Remake 2024: Jorden og menneskets sundhed hænger sammen Denne tekst med tilhørende billeder blev lavet for Kolding Food2030. Det var den første ‘rigtige’ workshop, første event, afholdt her på stedet. Tak til SDU FoodLab og alle dem der kom! To fantastiske dage med fine resultater. I forbindelse med …
As part of our project, in order to contribute to the permaculture movement, as well as to gain some structuration, I am working towards a Diploma in Applied Permaculture Design with the Nordic Permaculture Academy with Cathrine Dolleris as a mentor. “…Permaculture is a system of design based on ethics …
Our bird count: Here we have collected all the birds seen on our little patch of land since March 2023. The bird count – observation, identification and all photos – are by Leon Quinn. Most photos are taken on the premises, but not all. Some are yet to be shot. …
Ejendomsret, filosofi og ekspropriation … samfundsomvæltende ting og sager. Der er meget at sige om det, men her er en lille, hurtig apropos kommentar: Læste fornylig i Politiken at “…Skandinaviens største udbyder af open source står klar med et alternativ…“, som svar på Chromebook skandalen, og at det drejer sig …
Hvad er et participatorisk garanti system? Denne tekst er ikke klar endnu, men den er lovet her og her, så den kommer nok snart 🙂 I mellemtiden er her en fra maskinen (som altid tages den slags med at gran salt) der giver en ide om hvad et participatorisk garanti …
Hoved og hale var svær at finde i udarbejdelsen af denne tekst. Fran følelse til tanke til ord til skrift er som regel en lang rejse. Men nu giver det vist mening (specielt hvis den læses sammen med “Lad Skiftet Ske” og “Participatorisk Garanti System“: Med det på plads, tilbage …
“There are two sides: the agents of waste and the lovers of the wild. Either for life or against it. And each of us has to choose.” (Jay Griffiths, “Wild: An Elemental Journey”, 2008: 9) | “…Der er to sider: skrottens agenter og dem der elsker det vilde. Enten for …
Yesterday I noticed the first signs of life, the first shoots coming out of the ground: New year, return of light and life just bursts out of the ground. Warms your cockles, as they say. Forms a neat counterpoint to life clinging on from last year and arrives on a …
When we first came here a little under a year ago to view the place as prospective buyers, there was a pond. It was winter and wet, muddy patches and a wetland flanked by an upwards sloping savannah of sandy soil. Since then we have followed the shrinking-into-summer and growing-back-into-winter …
Working and walking the land bring up lots of thoughts about this, that and the other, including multispecies commons. Passing the apple trees in season made me greatly appreciate fallen apples on cool autumn mornings, covered in cold dew and microbial co-owners of our little patch of the Earth. In …
It is now January ’24, and this is Winter Wonder Land 2: Another look at our little patch clad in white. The first series of observations can be found here: A little SEO fodder from the machine: Winter’s Embrace: A Permaculture Examination Through Ecological Science As the cyclical rhythm of …
When everyone else had bought their Xmas tree, around Yuletide solstice, we went to get a bunch of greatly reduced living trees – rooted in soil in pots – and made a tiny ‘indoor forest’. Could be a new family xmas ritual. On January 6 – The Feast of the …
This is what Winter Wonder Land in Egholt looks like. We first came here in late winter and saw the land naked and wet; now we’ve seen it early winter, dressed in white. It is beginning to make sense, feeling like a space becoming a place for the heart and …
Første frost i det morgenrøde, the first and colourfully frosty morning: 08-10-2023 The first morning frost signifies the arrival of freezing temperatures, typically in the fall or winter, which can have various implications for both natural ecosystems and human activities. Here are some aspects to consider: Significance of First Morning …
At first it was incidental. They shit everywhere on anyone or anything at any time. Themselves, each other, their food, their water, their sleeping space. Yes, omnipresent. It was on my hands and my clothes and all over the place. When faced with the question concerning their bedding, I decided …
Getting in goosestep: walking the birds: I love going for walks with the geese. These are birds thought to have been companions for at least 7000 years. They are odd characters. Intelligent appearing at times, dumb as nobody’s business at others. Gracious and clumsy, quiet and calm, loud and messy. …
When we came there was a desert, which was documented briefly here. Like a beach looking for a sea. It had been transformed from a mix of lushness at the very top and primarily savannah into what looked “dead” to the unwitting, “killed” by those eminent soil workers called pigs …
Yea, we have a savannah, sort of. At least that is what we call it. It is, more or less, a nano plateau, a “vast plain of grass”, covering about 4800 m2, at the highest point of our land and also home to our little hill, which we call “Himmelbakken“. …
“There is a chestnut in there, somewhere“, the previous owner said when we surveyed the land and came upon an overgrown thicket in the borderlands of the cadastral map, a little South-East of “the savannah” and not too far from “the desert“. That was 5-6 months ago. The other day …
These (scroll down) are our cultiwilding zones, named by distinctive characters encountered, largely defined by a paddock layout developed by the previous guardian of the land. He ran a bonderøvsgård with school visits, farm shop, and much more surrounded by geese, ducks, pigs, cattle, sheep, chicken and what not. As …
Lilium martagon, the martagon lily, or Turk’s cap lily. Striking. There it was, hanging in the hedge next to where I was walking, observing, feeling out the energy of hot summer on the land. “Really!?”, I thought to myself, possibly spoke out loud, “Wow!” Obviously I had never seen a …
On our savannah there is a heavenly hill. Himmelbakken, Heaven Hill, taking its name tongue-in-cheek from Himmelbjerget, Heaven Mountain, in itself, as best a little sarcastic, even if it is most wonderful place to visit with great views. There is also a great view from Himmelbakken over “Egholt Hede“, when …
It is June, it is summer, it is hot and: Goslings coming out! The birds come out for the first time, discovering the world of green on their own, the main source of their food for weeks inside. They get their first shower with the garden hose and we built …
The goslings now enjoy a space double the size of when they first joined us a week ago. A write-up concerning the feed is still on the to-do list, but here’s a couple of videos of a feeding frenzy. They are here fed by hand and more or less in …
I posted a permaculture gosling intro earlier, where I mentioned I would go into details about ‘permaculture gosling feed‘. I have many mental notes, yet to make it to screen. Meanwhile have a look at them munching away on this mix (grated apple, fermented super food from factory, mixed with …
We have got goslings. Or they got us?!? We are of course still observing and finding our way, but we also got to walk at the same time. So we found some geese and, therefore, might as well write up a little permaculture goslings intro. They were seven days old …
We thought we were killing Ivy, men ukrudt forgår ikke så let. There’s nothing principally wrong with Ivy, of course, but when it’s keeping the house moist, eating into the roof, blocking the sun, well there is nothing principally wrong in killing ivy either. Even if has created such a …
