Sustainability
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Today I’m grateful for our ”lazy” Sundays. Our goal for Sundays is to not have any plans, and to enjoy the day whatever way we feel like when we wake up. Often a mix of baking something, food prepping for the week to come without any stress, long conversations, biking, hiking, crafting and reading. I…
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What are you grateful for today? Maria
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Today I’m grateful for winter bike rides. It’s an amazing feeling to ride a bike in the winter. Perhaps because it wasn’t allowed when I was a kid? I don’t know. I do know that I find it exhilarating to go biking in a winter wonderland. Biking makes me feel free and happy. What are…
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Today I woke up feeling grateful for a walk in a nearby nature area that I enjoyed this past weekend. What are you grateful for today? Maria
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Today I’m grateful for an amazing sunny Sunday in February. I took my bike up to the allotment garden and started some more seeds. I also enjoyed listening to the birds and nature around me. What are you grateful for today? Please tell me in a comment. Maria
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Weekend Coffee Share – Let the fun begin!
Welcome to the weekend coffee share! Can I get you a cup of coffee? Or tea? It is snowing outside.. and I started planting seeds yesterday. What? Why? Isn’t it a bit early, you ask. Well, I only sow seeds that benefit from the natural cold stratification to trigger germination. I have them outdoors in…
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Today I felt like going for a bike ride. Due to very cold weather (….and the flu etc etc) I haven’t used my bike in a few weeks. And it’s been outside the whole time. I felt so grateful that the battery somehow had a lot of charge and I could go for a bike…
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Today I spent some time making a map of my allotment garden. I placed all the perennials in their places, and now I can easily see the spaces available (the empty squares are empty garden beds) for annuals. Annuals are plants that only live for a year. In colder climates many plants are grown as…
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Today I am grateful for the endless possibilities ahead of me this upcoming gardening season. In a garden the saying “Imagination is the only limits” is very true. Imagining how I want my garden this year fills me with gratitude considering all the possibilities. As the snow keeps falling I enjoy planning for a bountiful…
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Even though I enjoy gardening immensely I have never owned a vineyard like the one in the photo. I have however enjoyed spending time in other peoples vineyards, like this one in Napa Valley (CA). When my daughter was a few months old we leased a house here over the winter. It was magical to…
