Screening of Holy Shit on Permaculture day

Come Celebrate Permaculture Day 2024 with us at Beyond Buckthorns on Sunday May 5th! 
 

Sea Buckthorn Harvest

It's now time to pick the sea buckthorns, our name-giving plants delicious and vitamin-filled berries.

Poor Man's Cloudberry Jam

Here's a report on another jam I tried this summer. It's lovingly called the Poor Man's Cloudberry Jam, even though mine wouldn't fool anyone!

Learning How to Offshoot Bushes

When we started with our Nordic Permaculture we didn't have much clue about berry bushes. We simply bought what we needed from the garden shop and planted them.

Delicious Zucchini Chips

We have a lot of zucchinis. Though, with that many zucchinis the 1000 $ question is: what to do with them? You could stuff them, fry them, blend them to smoothies, give them away - or: dry them. 

How We Chose Our Photovoltaic System

One of our early decisions when we started discussing moving to Finland was that we want to strive towards energy autonomy. Nick has lots of experience in DIY biogas (see Biogascentral) so we are eager…