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Piirit Koroisilla
The Finnish Permaculture Associations events are always nice. This autumn we met in Koroinen, Turku. Read all about it!
Diploma
Catching the rain
At Beyond Buckthorns we have our own well. It is 12 – 13 meters deep and is connected to a pump that starts when there is demand. Well water is our drinking and washing water. In 2017 we got hit by 2 droughts. Both together made it necessary to use well water to water the garden. Our main garden is 300 m² in size. And with a drought lasting 3-4 weeks we reached our limit – then the well started to run dry. It was then when I started to design a simple water plan for the garden.
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When we got the offer from Lumias mother to take over her two-hectare premises in the countryside of Finland we jumped for joy. For us living in the countryside in a house with a big garden was a big dream - after years and years of city dwelling we had grown to realize we want to live in nature, with nature, and this was our chance...