Hello dear ones, it’s me, Marija This week I was part of the organization for a “tadelakt” workshop. A dear friend from Kyustendil area, made a furnace in her garden, with her own hands, but she was really wondering with what material to cover the top. She saw it in one bathroom, and she really … Read more
Hello dear ones, It’s Marija. My “working week” started on Saturday. In a nearby village, there was a workshop for a natural method for dying clothes with wild plants. It was held by an amazing woman called Nikoleta Ivanova, that made an atelier in her barn, very close to her family’s home. Their family’s estate … Read more
Vlad : І так як я вже говорив, що південь України регіон ризикового землеробства де мало опадів, а вода дорогий ресурс бабуся Василиса рекомендує поєднувати кукурудзу та огірки, т’кви та помідори від кукурудзи є невелика тінь та іншим овочевим культурам комфортно, а і при бажанні помідори можна підв’язати до кукурудзи. Бабуся за власними спостереженнями садить … Read more
Andrii : Хотел бы рассказать вам про то ощущение что я получил от посещения данного вестеваля который находился в городе Кюстендил. Так начиналось моё путешествие, прекрасное настроение и хороший настрой в предкушении чему-то новому.. Фестиваль состоял с трёх дней и каждый день разные мероприятия и разные стили музыки, для разных категорий общества, все было волшебно, … Read more
Dear readers, we are happy to welcome in our team Vladyslav and Andrii from Ukraine. Here are their intro videos as a Hello to all! Vladyslav and Andrii: Anastasja: Dear readers, Last weekend Peter, Vyara, and I left Todorovo for an adventure to Gorna Bela Rechka in the Vratsa Balkan. Gorna … Read more
Anastasja: Hey y’all, For this week’s blog post, you will forgive me, as I’m about to cover two weeks in one since nothing much happened last week. We only came back from the festival on Tuesday, took Wednesday off, and struggled with some post-festival sickness towards the end of the week. This week, … Read more
Anastasja and Peter: Dear readers, As you will know by now (if you’ve read our previous posts, which we hope you did 😉 ) that we were busy the last few weeks with preparing and packing for the Meadows in the Mountains festival. We packed and tied everything neatly into Venets’ ultra-sturdy UAS … Read more
Anastasja: Hello dear readers, Trying to catch up with all the blog posts we’ve missed due to festival preparations and shenanigans, let me give you just a quick update on the gardening progress we’ve made a few weeks ago (I’m writing this after everything has happened). In week 59 we had lots of things … Read more
Peter and Anastasja: Hello everyone, Here are some updates from this week, as we have been continuing some work that we started last week. We planted a lot, and continued working in the Red House garden and Suhidol: On Monday, we planted some microgreens and peas. With the peas we experimented with a … Read more
Peter and Anastasja: Dear readers, This week we did some experiments! On Monday, together with our host Catherine, we planted tomatoes in Suhidol. Like announced previously (Week 54), we planted the tomatoes in a way that doesn’t require irrigation later on. This method, called dry farming only requires irrigation once, and later relies on intensive … Read more