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Stories from the field


Magic on the New Land
“You’re far too late,” they said. “Nothing will grow,” they said. “A waste of money,” they said. And still, in May, we felt the urge to...


Freehive - Episode 9
In this episode, we had to get creative to irrigate the young trees using the existing water canals — with some unexpected challenges...


Freehive – Episode 8
Getting water on the land was quite a birth! That's why we celebrated eating together with all the neighbours and the guests that were...


Freehive – Episode 7
In this episode we got help from afar! Matthias his sister came and helped us cleaning the water canals and planting in the natural...


Freehive - Episode 6
While cleaning the water canals, well… Evi got an acute lumbago. Ouch! Luckily we had been working in the Natural Farming garden to cut...


Year 2 vs 3
This is the difference of our land in one year. We didn't use any irrigation. Just sowed a lot of green manure seeds. It looks like a...


Lucky lettuce
I call them my lucky lettuces. They just seem to spring up spontaneously in the garden. Maybe seeds that didn't germinate last year,...


Freehive - episode 5
After six weeks of rain, the tractor finally arrived to open up the land. Well... that's what we thought it would do. Another lesson in...


Volunteering
We just love meeting young people! These sweeties came to help us out a few days, while traveling through Europe in their camper. What a...
Rain, rain and rain!
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...


Freehive - Episode 4
The past two weeks we have been exploring the new land. Great views from above and promising swimming spots for the summer! We have...


Hello Give and Buy
After seeing Anabel's drawings for the children's book, we thought: ‘This is so beautiful. Prints on children’s clothes are often very...
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