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Goodbye Miss Sophie
The cat named Hymy at the shelter moved in with us in August 2016. We’d moved to Beyond Buckthorns a few months earlier and I was adamant to get a cat. During my city years I didn’t live with cats, but imagining an old farmhouse without a cat was…
Open Gardens on a rainy day
The Open Gardens day was a decent success even though it was quite rainy at times. We had 47 names in the guest book at the end of the day, and the café was popular too. Many people signed up for the…
Hanging out while clearing out a storage container
Thanks so much everyone who came to our talkoo & hangout community day last Thursday! We had participants ranging from 22-82 years old from various villages in Pälkäne, over Valkeakoski and Tampere, all the way to Massachusetts and…
Our publication at the Swedish Permakulturbladet
In November 2025 we were approached by the Swedish Permaculture Association to write an article about Beyond Buckthorns for their quarterly print publication "Permakulturbladet". Of course we said yes and soon afterwards Lumia and I began writing…
Learnings from hosting the Peripheral LINKs Convergence
When we (here meaning us in the LINK project) set up the Peripheral LINKs Convergence, the idea wasn’t to build a fancy event with famous…
Lumia's permaculture teacher interview
In the spring of 2025 I was asked to do an interview with Finland's permaculture association in their teacher series, as I had received my (modern-style, not honorary) Diploma as the first Finn ever in February. That was nice!