Last week, we had the pleasure to discover and produce hot composting. This method uses microbial activity that accelerates the process of composting much faster […]
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Category: Permaculture
Plants against mosquitos
When it’s warm enough to sleep with my window open, I usually am really happy about it. Though, mosquito are really annoying and I always […]
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Eating stinging nettles
As in the usual gardens and forests of Europe and the whole world, the stinging nettle, or urtica, is one of the most occuring plants, […]
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Update: The month of August
August, time for big harvests and starting to prepare for the next seasons. Dani and Lea left In the beginning of the month our […]
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Update: The month of May
Byala Reka (White River) Preparing to come back to normality, after the big restrictions about “the thing”, we decided to do some outdoor activities in […]
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Sustainability Journal – Homemade yeast (“Sourdough”)
We already said we started to make our own bread because here in Shipka we don’t have a bakery and the bread is covered by […]
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Sustainability Journal – Worm Farm
Are you tired of digging in your Garden? There is one good ally that will be very happy of helping you in this task and […]
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Update: The month of March
March was a month of testing our capacity to keep working in the Coronavirus situation. We had some limits because of that but we had […]
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Sustainability Journal – Dry toilet
Compost toilets are a low cost, chemical free method for dealing with solid waste. The dry toilet eliminates waste, avoids to use the flush, recycles […]
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Sustainability Journal – Greenhouse with old windows
This is the first post in the Sustainability Journal that will share some of the measures we take to have a sustainable and zero waste […]
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