Yesterday we found out that as a non-profit we can’t use the 10% VAT rate. And we can’t reclaim the 21% either. That’s €20.000 extra. And honestly — we don’t yet know how to solve it. We prepared carefully. Spoke to the accountant. Checked the numbers. Budgeted with precision. There was no room for surprises. We’re working with a tight budget, doing as much as we can ourselves. We truly thought we had covered it all. But regulations can be more complex than expected. I crashe

Some days we find ourselves wondering: “What the f*ck are we doing?” Especially when our bodies are cold and wet, and we are facing hard work we have never done before — work that doesn’t go at all as we hoped. We are stripping away all the romantic ideas of DIY and are left face-to-face with raw effort. It is tough going to the construction site every day and putting in six hours of intense labor. Sometimes I feel like crying and laughing at the same time. Emotions spill ove

Dutch journalist, Barbara Le Noble, wrote an article about our project in Dutch for 'De Andere Krant' 🤗

It has been raining for over four weeks. Unfortunately the land is so soaked, we couldn't do anything on the new plot. This meant that we...

Do you remember?  Two years ago, we made a video to protect the valley where we have our main vegetable garden, as it was about to be...

Johan, my mother’s husband, also loves to grow his own food. They live in a different climate in Spain and can grow for two seasons. The...

We were gifted cans of frozen organic elderberry pulp from the local marmalade factory that wanted to throw them away because they didn't...

He really didn’t understand why we didn’t want to apply for subsidies, while we have the right to do so. “I don’t want a government label...

If we truly want to change the economy and society we see around us, we have to understand that many of our actions are just not in line...

We are beginning to realize more and more the impact we have. * The doctor who allows a few patients each month to donate to projects...

Remember when we restored the abandoned oven last spring? One of the neighbors, who lives on the other side of the mountain, promised to...

We found that after extended rains, there was a spot on our land, where the land got saturated with water and and it would stay there for...

A while ago we asked the shepherd if he made cheese from the goat and sheep milk and if so, if he would let us know when, so we could...

Do you remember we received straw a couple of weeks ago? Well, today the shepherd passed by our house and asked if we could help him out...

Isn’t it amazing when everyone can contribute their unique skills and they are truly appreciated for it? Matthias is creating a jingle...

I woke up this the morning realizing we needed straw for the chicken coop, to protect the real trees we are going to plant, to insulate...

For many years, the vegetable gardens in our little hamlet have been on the other side of the road. The water from the spring flowed...

We grew over 30 plants on the big pile of manure. They started promising, but in June it rained so much, there was no pollination and the...

Moving more and more with natures rhythm means many times: not knowing. A month ago our black chicken wanted to breed again. We were...

The only heating source for our house is a wood stove. This means a lot of wood chopping to prepare for the upcoming cold winter months....