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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
