We are all April fools, this year. At least me, I am in a confused state, trying to make sense of the world spinning around. Our enlightened leaders responeded to the oil supply risks by lowering the tax on diesel and gasoline. Could that help to reduce consumption …
read moreAnother month, another war.The latest conflagration, where the US is trying to bomb a people into submission is sending reverberations throughout the world. The choke point of Hormuz is no joke.
I am sad and disappointed that our world is still so dependent on the …
read moreOur climate is in increasing chaos. The polar air circulation is in imbalance. Even though the planet had one of the top ten hottest February months ever recorded, in our small town, it was colder than any of the neighbours remember. We had almost all …
read moreWe live in interesting times. Greenland is up for grabs. Presidents get abducted. A lot of noise in the media about who said what outrageous statement. It is often hard to understand what is for real and what is distraction.
This week, I finished the peculiar book …
read moreThe orbital tilt of our planet points away from the Sun, for us on Northern latitutes. Today is the shortest day and the longest night. Both from a seasonal point of view, but also from a political standpoint, many things are dark. The only thing …
read moreThis week, I spent a few days in the capital of our frosty country, on the icy shores of the Baltic Sea. It is a peculiar experience, to walk through the streets of a wealthy town, in the week of the Black Friday, watching one …
read moreA long time ago a man was rewarded by the gods for being a nice chap. He could choose his reward freely and chose to get the magic touch to transform anything into gold.
Maybe you remember what happened to the fragrant flowers that lost …
read moreIt is an old saying here, that farmers always complain about the weather. I think that it was even more true in the earlier days when every farmer was growing a dozen different crops. Every year some crop would fail. Often due to weather events.
This year …
read moreSometimes, I try to understand the political situation in Europe, in Sweden and in our small town Laholm. It is not easy. The political positionsing seems weakly connected to the reality that I observe. I look and learn and every time my expectations are slightly reduced.
This …
read moreThis summer has started out with a record time spent with friends and family. Most of the tree business is taking care of itself now, the trees grow well and they require something like one hour per day of care. Some fertilizing, some weeding, some watering, some peace …
read moreThe latest rage here on our farmlet is toktok, an entertainment platform that delivers hilarious content in snippets from 3 seconds to 60 minutes. The audiovisual experience is captivating and worryingly addictive.
Every morning, the breakfeast ritual is a joy for the eye, when the four participants devour a …
read moreWe and everything we make are part of the circle of life. Everything we make will one day be composted into constituents. Even the plastics will one day, a thousand years from now, be gone. Closer to home, our neighbour Ulf passed away late April and is …
read moreNo gardener complains about having too many earthworms. "They eat too much!" or "They poop too much!" are never uttered, when it comes to these lowly residents of the soil. Earthworms help cycle nutrients faster through the system, converting plant matter to nutrition.
We can do …
read moreThe other day, I listened to two excellent interviews with the same person, Jean-Baptiste Fressoz. One with Nate Hagens, one with Rachel Donald.
Fressoz wrote the book (that I have not yet read) "More, more, more!" about materials and civilization. We have kept using more of …
read moreThis winter was very, very mild until the middle of February, when we got a week of -5C to -10C. The ground froze solid for the first time this year. The misty weather cleared up and we got a whole week fo blue skies and beautiful winter …
read moreThose who look reality in the eye and share their observations often get flak. "Party pooper". "Negative attitude". "Cassandra". I like the humor and irony of the excellent thinker Ugo Bardi calling his old blog Cassandra's legacy. Most people don't want to know.
What could possibly go wrong …
For five hundred years, we have been waging a war on Nature, and now the end-game is in sight. We are winning. We powerful men of European white descent, have relentlessly fought, generation after generation. We have built bridges and dams to restrain rivers. We have covered …
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Trees are amazing. From the tiniest birch seed a mighty woodland wonder can emerge. From a throw-away apple core, another tree can sprout, to give bounty over generations.
What is not very natural is: moving trees. In Nature, this almost never happens. Trees stand where they stand …
read moreOctober is the month of chestnuts. Maybe October even means chestnut in latin? No, it means eighth month, which was true a long time back, but no longer. Like many truths that were true in old times long time gone but no longer accurate. Statements like "growth is …
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