Blog | In line with nature

Creating a new economy is all about practical actions and changing your life one step at a time.

Find out how we do this in our own environment.

A concert video

There are many things you can do without money. What is needed in your community and how can you contribute? The creative group of young...

DIY vs buying in the shop

Doing things by hand gives you a completely different perspective on many things. You start to understand more about our economy, in this...

Self-care

Moments of relaxation are very important to us. Just a moment to be with yourself. A while ago we saw an old bathtub laying on the street...

#6 end of July 2023: Cutting green manure

It is end of July and we decided to cut the green manure which was still growing. This will be an extra layer of mulch and food for the...

Buying local

This afternoon a neighbor invited us to join him to get some honey in town. Our first time scraping artisanal honey out of the tin. They...

Sharing trees and plants

Yesterday we visited a friend his permaculture project and he gifted us a few real trees grown from seeds and a bunch of plums we will...

#5 July 2023: An update about the vegetable garden

#5 July 2023: Cutting the green manure as mulch

It is time to cut the green manure, which has been making seeds, as a mulch layer for the soil. While the deep roots of the green manure...

Contributing to a new economy - building

There is an intense joy in building your own house. Although we helped a lot, our house has been built, but now we are closing the porche...

Care for nature

Our days are full with unexpected happenings. You just act when you have to. This little one needed some help, as it couldn’t fly yet and...

New life!

A while ago one of our chickens died. Just like that. The other one started to breed. As we have no cock, the eggs would never come out,...

Biosegura

Real seeds are so important! Learning how to dry and store them is easy. We are helping our friends of Biosegura a little bit with the...

Strawbale houses

Learning about strawbale houses and natural building. #volunteering #exchange #ecologicalbuilding #inlinewithnature

Community support - food for everyone

For a long time we felt limited with the platform we used to create FOOD WALLET. It had so many limitations we just couldn’t do what we...

Making our own carport

We built this carport to protect our car against the heavy hail storms we usually get in August. We used mostly recycled materials and...

#4 May 2023: Mulching the vegetable garden, making rows and sowing/planting vegetables.

May is planting and sowing time. First we mulched the vegetable garden up to 20 cm with straw. 20 cm is needed if you want to cultivate...

#4 March 2023: Sowing a lot of green manure

When you want to feed the soil, biodiversity is key. In March 2023, before the spring rains, it was time to sow 16 types of different...

#3 March 2023: Sowing green manure seeds in spring

In March, we sowed over 16 varieties of green manure plants in the natural farming vegetable garden. Some of them by using seed balls....

FOOD WALLET in Antwerp 4.0 Magazine

FOOD WALLET in the local Antwerp 4.0 Food magazine.

#3 November 2022: Awakening the soil - Sowing yeros and rye

In November we covered the first part of the land with sheep and goat manure out of the local stable. We sowed a mixture of yeros (a...