Planning for the upcoming season
One of the cool things about gardening in a cold climate is that you get the downtime during winter. This is the time where you can plan for the next season and dream up the things you’re going to try out when spring time comes around. I’ve spent some time…
The Four Climate Zone
The world has been divided into different climate zones. We have four main zones and two of these have sub zones. The basis of this division is variations in climate, vegetation, air pressure and the average temperature. The main zones are: arctic, temperate, subtropical and tropical. There will of course…
The One-Straw Revolution
Masanobu Fukuoka was one of the first people to actually do farming in a permaculture sense, and he did so before permaculture was put into the system it is today. So we could say that he in many ways is the father of permaculture. Many of the principles we know…
Fermenting
When you are growing food in a garden in a cold climate, one of the most important things to learn is how to preserve your harvested vegetables. Here in Oslo where I live, the snow mostly comes end of Descember and stays until mid April. So during these months you…