Here’s a little about cultiwilding in English and Danish. Cultivate to be wild. See also cultiwilding people. Cultiwilding is a permaculture experiment where human beings naturally are part of the landscape. The Living Lab comes in extension of a broad theoretical and practical background. Studies, research and voluntary development work …
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 …
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 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 beautiful …
It is spring time! Images can say more than a thousand words, so they say. Poetry, too. So here’s the opening verses of Anne Linnet’s wonderful ‘Forårsdag’ followed by a set of relatively random images from our little piece of land, as King Winter gives way: Mere er der vist …
Turned over, not lightly, disturbed heavily, this was once pig territory, now we call it the desert. Let’s see what will become of this place – Egholt Desert – as spring and summer comes along. Who and what will want to grow and how? Mid-April and it still looks a …
Besøgte i dag Urtegartneriet i Kragelund nær Silkeborg, som drives af Kirsten og Erik. Et dejligt sted, hvor de har været i 30 år, og med alt for mange planter til at man kan bære det. Ville så gerne have haft to af hver af og mange flere poser frø …
It came, like a thief in the night, it was death, visiting upon our door step. The hen was gone, there it lay and will lay no more. It had been ill, been coughing, ginger had been administered and part recovery observed. Did we not persevere, did we fail, was …
Vi er flyttet ind for fem dage siden. Vi observerer. Endnu kun en spæd begyndelse, en kold, smuk frossen morgen i marts ’23 – her er Ground Zero 2 på Egholt Gl. Savværk, på vej mod et cultiwilding permakultur design.,.
Det begynder her, vi observer for at etablere grundlinien. Det er sen vinter, tidligt i ’23… This is where it begins. A few snapshots of the basic scenario at ground zero, our baseline in Winter 22/23. Much more to come.
