Nut trees are the best, but I also like fruit trees. They all have a role to play in a diverse food ecosystem.
Therefore I visited the nursery "Rögle Plantskola" between Ängelholm and Helsingborg. It is a 45 minute drive south from here, just on the …
In the end of the fall, I purchased a wood chipper that works as an attachment on the 2-wheel tractor.
It is a sturdy wood chipper that uses the engine of the 2-wheel tractor in stand-still mode.
Instead of servicing two engines, one for the tractor and …
I have always been interested in cultures. In the past, I travelled a lot, and contributed an inordinate abount of carbon to our common atmosphere. Everywhere I came, I tried to learn some language, customs, traditions, norms and values. In some respects, people are people everywhere, but there …
We have had two weeks of splendid weather. Cold and dry and beautiful.
Some days the mercury dipped below -15C, which is quite unusual here in Southern Sweden. Therefore, we have taken every opportunity to enjoy the freshness of the snow and the silhouettes from the frost …
Being back in Sweden after 20 years living abroad, I notice some things that have improved and others that have degenerated or decayed. One of the disappointments flew in my face when I biked off to buy beer.
I realized that almost all beer in my local supermarket …
To grow healthy trees, it is good to remove rhizomatic weeds like quack grass before planting. I tried the method of "tarping".
In September, I put large plastic sheets to cover blocks of the newly fertilized and tilled field.
The plan was to solarize (block sunshine) the soil …
Now that the days are getting shorter and Nature is slowing down, trees are losing their leaves and go into winter rest. The trees suck nitrogen from their leaves, and shed the empty hulls. All the nutrients are stored in the roots and in the …
Sometimes, I wonder how a pathway to a better life after the ecological transition will look like. I dream about the "RetroSuburbia" world that Holmgren has depicted. I fantasize about the "Local Futures" of Helena Norberg-Hodge. And sometimes I see a fragment of a better future, that has …
I love trees. And I also love wood-chips. Is there a contradiction here, maybe?
Wood chips are excellent soil improvement agents, and can be used to cover soil and strengthen soil life. Especially chips made from "ramial wood" is supposed to be excellent. At least according to the …
I moved out of this country 20 years ago and now I am back. Sometimes, it feels like time has stopped here in the countryside. Especially on a cold autumn morning with the first frost of the year:
One of the great things this summer and early autumn has been to taste new apple varieties. Not in any kind of shop or orchard, but along the old roads and railways in the neighbourhood. There are apple trees every kilometer or so, full of summer-ripe fruit …
Last week-end I took a walk in the woods with my old mates David and Linus. We walked for two days on a trail that runs along the southern edge of my municipality.
My municipality Laholm is approximately of the same size as the province …
These are times that rip through the fabric of the illusion of normality. What we knew in the past is no longer true. New realities will congeal, but I think that we are not yet there. We are stuck in several dilemmas.
As a world economy, we are addicted to fossil fuels, of which we are running short. Not to talk about the climate chaos. The 50 years anniversary of the "Limits to Growth" this year has sadly been a celebration of stupidity. We (globally) have tracked the "business-as-usual" scenario …
Trees are fountains of life, as Akiva Silver sometimes writes(Trees of Power,2019). They transform two-dimensional, flat landscapes into lush, richly textured ecosystems brimming with life.
Trees come in all shapes and colors, quick growing pioneers and slow maturing climax species. Trees with fragrant flowers. Trees …