https://framtidskultur.se/tfp/Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0200https://framtidskultur.se/tfp/midsummer-celebrations.html<h1>Midsummer celebrations</h1> <p>Up here in Sweden, we celebrate Midsummer Night. It is the single largest celebration, if we consider the amount of people who are free from work. For centuries, during christian times, it was celebrated on 24 June, the afternoon before St. Johns mass, which was held on 25 …</p>GoranTue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0200tag:framtidskultur.se,2026-06-30:/tfp/midsummer-celebrations.htmlBloghttps://framtidskultur.se/tfp/spreading-the-gospel.html<h1>Spreading the gospel</h1> <p>Is there anything more tiresome than hearing a fanatic proselytize? Endless words about the salvationary capacity of their current conviction. On and on about the miraculous manifestations of the greater good. A simple-minded focus on "the one thing" that would change everything for the better. </p> <p>Imagine you …</p>GoranSun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 +0200tag:framtidskultur.se,2026-05-31:/tfp/spreading-the-gospel.htmlBloghttps://framtidskultur.se/tfp/april-fools.html<h1>April Fools</h1> <p>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 …</p>GoranThu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0200tag:framtidskultur.se,2026-04-30:/tfp/april-fools.htmlBloghttps://framtidskultur.se/tfp/punch-in-the-face.html<h1>Punch in the face</h1> <p>Another 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. </p> <p>I am sad and disappointed that our world is still so dependent on the …</p>GoranMon, 30 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0200tag:framtidskultur.se,2026-03-30:/tfp/punch-in-the-face.htmlBloghttps://framtidskultur.se/tfp/a-long-cold-snowy-winter.html<h1>A long, cold, snowy winter</h1> <p>Our 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 …</p>GoranSat, 28 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0100tag:framtidskultur.se,2026-02-28:/tfp/a-long-cold-snowy-winter.htmlBloghttps://framtidskultur.se/tfp/seeds-of-change.html<h1>What drives change?</h1> <p>We 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. </p> <p>This week, I finished the peculiar book …</p>GoranFri, 23 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0100tag:framtidskultur.se,2026-01-23:/tfp/seeds-of-change.htmlBloghttps://framtidskultur.se/tfp/our-darkest-hour.html<h1>Our darkest hour is now</h1> <p>The 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 …</p>GoranMon, 22 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0100tag:framtidskultur.se,2025-12-22:/tfp/our-darkest-hour.htmlBloghttps://framtidskultur.se/tfp/november-treevember.html<h1>In the City of Power</h1> <p>This 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 …</p>GoranFri, 28 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0100tag:framtidskultur.se,2025-11-28:/tfp/november-treevember.htmlBloghttps://framtidskultur.se/tfp/we-are-all-king-midas.html<h1>We are all king Midas</h1> <p>A 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. </p> <p>Maybe you remember what happened to the fragrant flowers that lost …</p>GoranTue, 21 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0200tag:framtidskultur.se,2025-10-21:/tfp/we-are-all-king-midas.htmlBloghttps://framtidskultur.se/tfp/september-sunshine.html<h1>Weathering the sunshine</h1> <p>It 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. </p> <p>This year …</p>GoranSun, 28 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0200tag:framtidskultur.se,2025-09-28:/tfp/september-sunshine.htmlBloghttps://framtidskultur.se/tfp/2025-08-31-summers-last-kiss.html<h1>Organic Summit 2025</h1> <p>Sometimes, 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. </p> <p>This …</p>GoranSun, 31 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0200tag:framtidskultur.se,2025-08-31:/tfp/2025-08-31-summers-last-kiss.htmlBloghttps://framtidskultur.se/tfp/2025-07-31-harvest-season-is-on.html<h1>Social Summer</h1> <p>This 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 …</p>GoranThu, 31 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0200tag:framtidskultur.se,2025-07-31:/tfp/2025-07-31-harvest-season-is-on.htmlBloghttps://framtidskultur.se/tfp/2025-06-30-toktok.html<h1>Toktok</h1> <p>The 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. </p> <p>Every morning, the breakfeast ritual is a joy for the eye, when the four participants devour a …</p>GoranMon, 30 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0200tag:framtidskultur.se,2025-06-30:/tfp/2025-06-30-toktok.htmlBloghttps://framtidskultur.se/tfp/2025-05-28-ashes-to-ashes.html<h1>Ashes to ashes</h1> <p>We 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 …</p>GoranWed, 28 May 2025 00:00:00 +0200tag:framtidskultur.se,2025-05-28:/tfp/2025-05-28-ashes-to-ashes.htmlBloghttps://framtidskultur.se/tfp/2025-04-30-we-can-be-earthworms.html<h1>We can be earthworms</h1> <p>No 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. </p> <p>We can do …</p>GoranWed, 30 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0200tag:framtidskultur.se,2025-04-30:/tfp/2025-04-30-we-can-be-earthworms.htmlBloghttps://framtidskultur.se/tfp/2025-03-26-so-what-do-we-do.html<h1>What do we do?</h1> <p>The other day, I listened to two excellent interviews with the same person, Jean-Baptiste Fressoz. One with <a href="https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/162-jean-baptiste-fressoz">Nate Hagens</a>, one with <a href="https://www.planetcritical.com/p/jean-baptiste-fressoz">Rachel Donald</a>. </p> <p>Fressoz wrote the book (that I have not yet read) "More, more, more!" about materials and civilization. We have kept using more of …</p>GoranWed, 26 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0100tag:framtidskultur.se,2025-03-26:/tfp/2025-03-26-so-what-do-we-do.htmlBloghttps://framtidskultur.se/tfp/2025-02-22-winter-came-back.html<h1>Winter came back</h1> <p>This 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 …</p>GoranSat, 22 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0100tag:framtidskultur.se,2025-02-22:/tfp/2025-02-22-winter-came-back.htmlBloghttps://framtidskultur.se/tfp/2025-01-31-crying-wolf.html<h1>Crying wolf?</h1> <p>Those 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. </p> <p><img alt="." src="images/2025-01-31_footprint.png"> <em>What could possibly go wrong …</em></p>GoranFri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0100tag:framtidskultur.se,2025-01-31:/tfp/2025-01-31-crying-wolf.htmlBloghttps://framtidskultur.se/tfp/2024-12-28-we-are-winning.html<p><img alt="." src="images/2024-12-28_Potato_spraying.jpg"></p> <h1>We are winning</h1> <p>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 …</p>GoranSat, 28 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0100tag:framtidskultur.se,2024-12-28:/tfp/2024-12-28-we-are-winning.htmlBloghttps://framtidskultur.se/tfp/2024-11-26-tree-planting-season.html<h1>Tree planting season</h1> <p><img alt="." src="images/2024-11-26_tree.jpg"></p> <p>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.</p> <p>What is not very natural is: moving trees. In Nature, this almost never happens. Trees stand where they stand …</p>GoranTue, 26 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0100tag:framtidskultur.se,2024-11-26:/tfp/2024-11-26-tree-planting-season.htmlBloghttps://framtidskultur.se/tfp/2024-10-30-chestnut-lovers.html<h1>Chestnut lovers</h1> <p>October is the month of chestnuts. Maybe <em>October</em> even means chestnut in latin? No, it means eighth month, which was true a long time back, but no longer. Like many <em>truths</em> that were true in old times long time gone but no longer accurate. Statements like "growth is …</p>GoranWed, 30 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0100tag:framtidskultur.se,2024-10-30:/tfp/2024-10-30-chestnut-lovers.htmlBloghttps://framtidskultur.se/tfp/2024-09-27-an-apple-a-day.html<h1>An apple a day</h1> <p>Apples are the quintessential fruit in Scandinavia. It was introduced all the way from Central Asia to Sweden more than 4500 years ago, during the stone age. The oldest archeological finds are from 2500 BCE. Apples are still the most grown fruit, present in many private …</p>GoranFri, 27 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0200tag:framtidskultur.se,2024-09-27:/tfp/2024-09-27-an-apple-a-day.htmlBloghttps://framtidskultur.se/tfp/2024-08-31-sunshine-and-hot-hot-peppers.html<h1>Bragging hot</h1> <p>I like peppers. They grow great in our hoop house and they look amazing. We have several varieties, from 'Long slim' to 'Cayenne' and a few that have long lost their providence, but we keep seeding. They change over time, of course, due to cross-pollination with each other …</p>GoranSat, 31 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0200tag:framtidskultur.se,2024-08-31:/tfp/2024-08-31-sunshine-and-hot-hot-peppers.htmlBloghttps://framtidskultur.se/tfp/2024-07-28-harvest-season-is-here.html<h1>Harvest season, or "As you sow..."</h1> <p>Once upon a time, we taught our children that there are <em>consequences</em> for our actions. The debts we took on had to be paid back. There was a lot of talk about <em>responsibility</em> (in the personal kind, not the blame-someone-else type of responsibility rants …</p>GoranSun, 28 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0200tag:framtidskultur.se,2024-07-28:/tfp/2024-07-28-harvest-season-is-here.htmlBloghttps://framtidskultur.se/tfp/2024-06-23-we-prune-the-prunes-in-june.html<h1>June pruning?</h1> <p>In the entertaining book "Fruit for Life" by Tim Foster, he tells about the old rhyme to prune the prunes (e.g. plums, cherries, abricots etc.) in June. The old cherry tree gave two cherries this year, and they are long gone, so now would be a good …</p>GoranSun, 23 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0200tag:framtidskultur.se,2024-06-23:/tfp/2024-06-23-we-prune-the-prunes-in-june.htmlBloghttps://framtidskultur.se/tfp/2024-05-22-come-what-may.html<h1>Come What May</h1> <p>We live in a time of slow and inevitable collapse, as the <a href="https://ferngladefarm.com.au/">most excellent blogger Chris eloquently describes</a> from his small-farm, small-business perspective from the other side of the planet. We have been overloading the planet for fifty years and the ecosystems start to unravel. At the …</p>GoranWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0200tag:framtidskultur.se,2024-05-22:/tfp/2024-05-22-come-what-may.htmlBloghttps://framtidskultur.se/tfp/2024-04-19-aprils-fool.html<h1>April's fool</h1> <p>Who is the greater fool? Probably me. </p> <p>Many of my old friends think that we are crazy who moved to a farm, just outside a forgotten small town. What could possibly be interesting out there?, they scoff.</p> <p>When I talk to old buddies, from my engineering past, they …</p>GoranFri, 19 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0200tag:framtidskultur.se,2024-04-19:/tfp/2024-04-19-aprils-fool.htmlBloghttps://framtidskultur.se/tfp/2024-03-29-spring-is-coming.html<h1>March! Onwards!</h1> <p>All over Europe, farmers protest. The tension between the central urban power and the weakened periphery is growing. For decades, the cities have amassed wealth, power and privilege, while ignoring and exploiting the countryside folks. </p> <p>The urban elites with academic diplomas have taken over most political parties. Even …</p>GoranFri, 29 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0100tag:framtidskultur.se,2024-03-29:/tfp/2024-03-29-spring-is-coming.htmlBloghttps://framtidskultur.se/tfp/2024-02-25-cold-and-wet.html<h1>February - Cold and wet</h1> <p>This month I am re-reading the most excellent book Overshoot by William R. Catton. If you have not read it yet, make a note to get a copy from your local library, and read and reflect. The predicament of our Civilization is long in the making …</p>GoranSun, 25 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0100tag:framtidskultur.se,2024-02-25:/tfp/2024-02-25-cold-and-wet.htmlBloghttps://framtidskultur.se/tfp/2024-01-28-winter-ways.html<h1>January - Winter ways</h1> <h2>Clay render</h2> <p>This fall and winter, we have intermittently worked on our sunny room. It is the south-most room in the old part of our house, built in the 1800s. We chose to put in large new windows in the hitherto window-less south wall of our house …</p>GoranSun, 28 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0100tag:framtidskultur.se,2024-01-28:/tfp/2024-01-28-winter-ways.htmlBloghttps://framtidskultur.se/tfp/2023-12-30-winter-and-holidays.html<h1>December - Winter and Holidays</h1> <h2>Titans of waste</h2> <p>I would like to start with a winter story I heard a few times when I lived in Russia in the 1990s. It was an anecdote about the poor results of state-led allocation of resources. </p> <p>"In the Soviet Union times, the government resource …</p>GoranSat, 30 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0100tag:framtidskultur.se,2023-12-30:/tfp/2023-12-30-winter-and-holidays.htmlBloghttps://framtidskultur.se/tfp/2023-11-30-drizzle-and-snow-and-sunshine.html<h1>November - drizzle and snowshine</h1> <p>It was a month with record low sunshine. 29 hours, according to the statisticians. One hour per day. The rest of the time it was gray, and quite a few of those long, drizzling rain days.</p> <p>We did get started on some outdoor projects. The most …</p>GoranThu, 30 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0100tag:framtidskultur.se,2023-11-30:/tfp/2023-11-30-drizzle-and-snow-and-sunshine.htmlBloghttps://framtidskultur.se/tfp/2023-10-27-nut-harvest-season.html<h1>October - Nut harvest season</h1> <p>In October the walnuts and the chestnuts are ripe here in Southern Sweden. This summer, we have been biking around the villages in around here and talking to people with nut trees in their gardens to ask if we could come and harvest later. Everyone we …</p>GoranFri, 27 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0200tag:framtidskultur.se,2023-10-27:/tfp/2023-10-27-nut-harvest-season.htmlBloghttps://framtidskultur.se/tfp/2023-09-27-as-you-sow-so-shall-you-reap.html<h1>September - Harvest Times</h1> <p>From times immemorial, there have been sayings in the style of: "as you sow, you shall reap". Ominous words, indicating that you get your just deserts when fall comes. </p> <p>Those of us who are eager and optimistic infallibly sow more than is practical to harvest. Especially in …</p>GoranWed, 27 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0200tag:framtidskultur.se,2023-09-27:/tfp/2023-09-27-as-you-sow-so-shall-you-reap.htmlBloghttps://framtidskultur.se/tfp/2023-08-31-joop.html<h1>My friend Joop</h1> <p>I want to share a few memories of my time with Joop Wantenaar, one of my best friends. Joop passed away on 31 august this year.</p> <p>Joop played a key role in my life during the last eight years. Without the discussions with Joop and his generous …</p>GoranThu, 31 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0200tag:framtidskultur.se,2023-08-31:/tfp/2023-08-31-joop.htmlBloghttps://framtidskultur.se/tfp/2023-08-27-august-rained-away.html<h1>Some like it wet</h1> <p>August came and went. It is usually the warmest month, but this year we had not a single day reaching 30C. After a very dry early summer, we have had for almost every day in both July and August. Very unusual weather. One day we had …</p>GoranSun, 27 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0200tag:framtidskultur.se,2023-08-27:/tfp/2023-08-27-august-rained-away.htmlBloghttps://framtidskultur.se/tfp/2023-07-27-summer-chestnuts.html<h2>Summer Chestnuts</h2> <p>The summer is an exciting time, when the chestnuts that I seeded in March are growing out into small treses. </p> <p>I built two airprune beds and they seem to work fine. One was weak in the bottom and fell out, so I fixed that one, and the other …</p>GoranThu, 27 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0200tag:framtidskultur.se,2023-07-27:/tfp/2023-07-27-summer-chestnuts.htmlBloghttps://framtidskultur.se/tfp/2023-07-22-trees-and-tables.html<h2>Trees and Tables</h2> <p>I love trees. Trees are our friends and teachers. Trees have been around for millions of years. The oldest family that is still with us is the Ginkgo family, with small changes over the last 200 million years. They were around in the time of the dinosaurs …</p>GoranSat, 22 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0200tag:framtidskultur.se,2023-07-22:/tfp/2023-07-22-trees-and-tables.htmlBloghttps://framtidskultur.se/tfp/2023-06-16-june-light-and-dry.html<h2>Dry June</h2> <p>June has been extraordinary dry. No rain for six weeks and 25-30 degrees most of the days. Neighbour farmers even ir!rigate the grassy hayfields, which I hear is new in this area. In the past, only vegetables and sometimes grains were irrigated. Since May I have been …</p>GoranFri, 16 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0200tag:framtidskultur.se,2023-06-16:/tfp/2023-06-16-june-light-and-dry.htmlBloghttps://framtidskultur.se/tfp/2023-05-21-growth-is-great.html<h2>Growth is Great</h2> <p>Organic growth in the early summer is amazing. We have warm and pleasant weather (20-25C at noon, 10C minimum), so everything that is planted out is growing like crazy. </p> <p><img alt="." src="images/2023-05-21_1_chestnut_table.jpg"> <em>Chestnut seedlings on an air-pruning table</em></p> <p>The poly-tunnel is a mediterranean climate, of dry, warm weather. The figs …</p>GoranSun, 21 May 2023 00:00:00 +0200tag:framtidskultur.se,2023-05-21:/tfp/2023-05-21-growth-is-great.htmlBloghttps://framtidskultur.se/tfp/2023-04-30-king-of-spades.html<h2>Crazy April</h2> <p>It has been a crazy month. Very busy. Very good. Sometimes deeply sad, sometimes joyfully exuberant.</p> <p>We give a ten day, whole year training on growing nuts, at Holma Folkhögskola, my friends Johanna, Anders and me. </p> <p><img alt="." src="images/2023-04-30_1_course.jpg"> <em>Here we are at Anders' place Rydeholm.</em></p> <p><img alt="." src="images/2023-04-30_2_anders.jpg"> <em>Anders shows one of the …</em></p>GoranSun, 30 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0200tag:framtidskultur.se,2023-04-30:/tfp/2023-04-30-king-of-spades.htmlBloghttps://framtidskultur.se/tfp/2023-03-20-fruit-rootstock.html<h1>Planting out fruit rootstock</h1> <p>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 …</p>GoranMon, 20 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0100tag:framtidskultur.se,2023-03-20:/tfp/2023-03-20-fruit-rootstock.htmlBloghttps://framtidskultur.se/tfp/2023-02-19-airtime.html<h1>Airtime for the chestnuts</h1> <p>Now that the polytunnel is up, I can plant the chestnuts in a protected environment, without hard frosts and no wind chill. </p> <p>The best roots develop when you plant a chestnut on the location where the tree will stand the rest of it's life. However, most …</p>GoranSun, 19 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0100tag:framtidskultur.se,2023-02-19:/tfp/2023-02-19-airtime.htmlBloghttps://framtidskultur.se/tfp/2023-02-04-chipper.html<h1>New Scary Chipper</h1> <p>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 …</p>GoranSat, 04 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0100tag:framtidskultur.se,2023-02-04:/tfp/2023-02-04-chipper.htmlBloghttps://framtidskultur.se/tfp/2023-01-15-protected-culture.html<h1>Protected culture</h1> <p>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 …</p>GoranSun, 15 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0100tag:framtidskultur.se,2023-01-15:/tfp/2023-01-15-protected-culture.htmlBloghttps://framtidskultur.se/tfp/2022-12-27-reflections-in-snow.html<h1>Cold and dry</h1> <p>We have had two weeks of splendid weather. Cold and dry and beautiful. </p> <p>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 …</p>GoranTue, 27 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0100tag:framtidskultur.se,2022-12-27:/tfp/2022-12-27-reflections-in-snow.htmlBloghttps://framtidskultur.se/tfp/2022-12-17-bugger-for-the-bottle.html<h1>Bottle madness</h1> <p>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.</p> <p>I realized that almost all beer in my local supermarket …</p>GoranSat, 17 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0100tag:framtidskultur.se,2022-12-17:/tfp/2022-12-17-bugger-for-the-bottle.htmlBloghttps://framtidskultur.se/tfp/2022-12-03-planting-trees.html<h1>Pre-planting surprise</h1> <p>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 …</p>GoranSat, 03 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0100tag:framtidskultur.se,2022-12-03:/tfp/2022-12-03-planting-trees.htmlBloghttps://framtidskultur.se/tfp/2022-11-30-getting-trees.html<h1>Going back to get trees</h1> <p>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 …</p>GoranWed, 30 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0100tag:framtidskultur.se,2022-11-30:/tfp/2022-11-30-getting-trees.htmlBloghttps://framtidskultur.se/tfp/2022-11-13-pathway-to-a-better-future.html<h1>A pathway...</h1> <p>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 …</p>GoranSun, 13 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0100tag:framtidskultur.se,2022-11-13:/tfp/2022-11-13-pathway-to-a-better-future.htmlBlog