February, the month preceding March. Nothing extraordinary happened. Short and fast. Spring came and left again, several times. We ate a lot of kimchi. An […]
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Tag: permaculture
Sustainability Journal – Kombucha (fermented tea)
What is Kombucha? It is a fermented tea (black, green tea or white tea i.e. Camellia sinensis) drink that works as probiotic, which means that […]
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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 – Waste production measuring
In the day 6th of January of 2020 it was started the measurement of the trash that we produce at our home to know, in […]
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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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Update: The month of February
First part of February we experienced finally real winter. Lot of snow with cold wind and freeze were coming. So we were enjoying the winter […]
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Update: The month of October
October was time to say a warmheart goodbye for three of our volunteers – we want to say big thanks to Axel, Eileen and Martin […]
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Update: The month of August
August, with the long nights and the locust’s songs, was running very fast! Quick information about our main activities : Dragon dreaming We started with […]
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Update: the month of July
The sun is strong here in Shipka since 2 months now, we are all full of Vitamin D and the month of July has been […]
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