The vision

Building a little piece of paradise

This page is about the journey of turning a standard place into my personal paradise; step by step. The former farm house ground was neglected for a while. The back area was used for ponies and is now an unused field. While the direct back yard was mainly used to host one big aviary, the front garden was made from gravel. Step by step, these areas will be turned into nature, again. Want to join the journey?

Project Kitchen Garden

The area next to the house is turned into a kitchen garden. This is the smallest and therefore fastest project.

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Project Cottage Garden

The back yard is turned into a cottage garden mainly holding bird and insect friendly plants. The center will be a pergola sitting area.

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Project Forest Garden

The longest project is turning the former field into a forest garden. The concept of permaculture is used for planning and implementation.

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Keep up to date with the latest blog and instagram posts.

As expected, the size of the seed trays of the „Moestuin Maatjes“ is a bit on the small side. Sharing some leftover wool with the birds. The air is full of their songs. Little feather balls hopping around everywhere. Time to share some fluff! I’m not always a fan of the promotions of a large, Dutch supermarket but the current promotion, the Moestuin Maatjes (Kitchen Garden Buddies) promotion I do like! In this promotion there are 15 different, small sowing sets, each containing seeds for two good neighbor plants, a tablet of dry coco soil and two cardboard pots. The outer packaging provides the matching tags. The beauty of misty mornings! Update of the artichoke - so curious! And I was wondering why my poor clover plants are crushed. While it's nasty cold outside a mouse enjoyed a sunbath on my clover and the warm soil of the plant pots in the greenhouse. It was not really shy and let me take a photo. Did you know that raspberries are originally forest plants, where they grew as undergrowth? And did you know that there are two types of raspberries that bloom and bear fruits at different times and therefore should be pruned differently? Spring - Frühlingt - Lente ☀️ 🇬🇧Did you know that my blog is trilingual? While my Instagram posts are mainly English, all blog posts at tuintante.nl are in English, German, and Dutch. As I am learning about permaculture, it is dawning on me that there is a whole philosophy behind the word, and not just design suggestions for how to lay out your garden. Behind the term are ethical principles for daily actions as well as various concepts for respectful use of resources. Planning how to implement permaculture in the next coming years will take longer than the advancing spring gives time to me. I will do some first steps towards permaculture this year, although they do not yet come close to implementing the whole concept.

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