How to prepare a garden bed for vegetable growing? 10 steps for healthy soil and a better harvest

Starting the vegetable season with a well-prepared garden bed will support the vegetable growth and reduce your maintenance effort. This article showcases how to prepare a garden bed in 10 steps; no matter if you are a gardener or a small-scale farmer.

food, permacultureLars BlumeNovember 19, 2018Gaia Ashrampermaculture, country life, loving action, nature, gardening, vegetables, gardenstories3, gardenstoriesComment

What is the optimal garden bed to grow vegetables? These 6 beds follow the natural farming & permaculture principles.

The optimal garden bed for your specific framework conditions will help you to increase your vegetable harvest, enrich soil fertility and reduce the amount of maintenance over the years. This article guides you through 5 different ways of creating a garden bed for vegetable growth.

food, permacultureLars BlumeOctober 26, 2018Gaia Ashrampermaculture, country life, loving action, nature, gardening, vegetables, gardenstories1, gardenstory2Comment

How to create an ideal site for growing vegetables?

A well-designed and managed vegetable garden can produce a lot of food, even on a small plot of land. This article explores the 7 key success factors for growing vegetables for temperate and tropical climate and gives recommendations how to manage each factor.

food, permacultureLars BlumeOctober 18, 2018Gaia Ashrampermaculture, country life, loving action, nature, gardening, vegetables, gardenstory1Comment

Joining an existing intentional community Gaia Ashram in Isan, Thailand

You think about moving to an existing intentional community? You are wondering about the challenges, hardships and opportunities of living in a community? You wanna know how easy (or how hard) it is to move from a single, couple or even small family life into an existing intentional community or ecovillage? Well, that’s what we did and that’s why we wanna share our reflection and first lessons learned with you.

1,000sqm Permaculture Design example in temperate climate

Permaculture in Hannover, Germany. Permaculture design example of a 1,000 sqm land in a temperate climate. The results include design, sector analysis, zoning, analysing & connecting components and the first steps of implementation.

Intentional community life at Gaia Ashram in Thailand

We are sharing our experiences after three month living in community. Gaia Ashram อาศรม ธรรมชาติ is a community for all living beings in northeastern Thailand. We tell you 8 things you might wanna know! flowful tells stories and shows images of a conscious and sustainable lifestyle in harmony with nature.

Permaculture design in northern Germany

Permaculture in Hannover, Germany. Design practice of a 1,000 sqm small-scale land in a temperate climate. Learn about the challenges of slopes and narrow properties and see if a tropical Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) valid in a temperate climate.

It’s going up! Building mud bricks walls

Building the walls of our roundhouse.

WEARING GOOD BOOTS: building a foundation

On our way to build a natural house we've learned to value the foundation.

The new playing field of self-reliance

Why we moved from the urban, densely populated area of Hanoi to Ban That, a small village in rural Isan in northeastern Thailand.