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Weekend Coffee Share

Apr 25, 2026

Allotment gardening, Blogging, Dalarna, gratitude, nature, Organic Gardening, Projects, Sustainability

April, bike rides, Biking, car-free, Coffee, cold started vegetables, food, garden, gardening, gratitude, Green Dreams Sweden, homesteading, life, mental-health, mindfulness, quietude, self sufficiency, thankful, vegetables, Weekend Coffee Share, writing

Welcome to the weekend coffee share! Can I get you a cup of coffee? Or tea? April, and this week in particular has been full of surprises when it comes to the weather. We’ve had beautiful days with sunshine, cloudy days, windy days, and hail, however NO April showers. It is very dry. I visited…
Daily Gratitude Challenge 2026 – Spring

Apr 25, 2026

Dalarna, gratitude, Sustainability

Daily Gratitude Practice 2026, garden, gratitude, Green Dreams Sweden, life, mindfulness, nature, quietude, self sufficiency

What are you grateful for today? Maria
Daily Gratitude Challenge 2026 – Urban Allotment Gardens In Europe

Apr 22, 2026

Allotment gardening, books, gratitude, Library, nature, Organic Gardening, Projects, reading, Sustainability

Daily Gratitude Practice 2026, food, gardening, gratitude, Green Dreams Sweden, homesteading, life, mental-health, mindfulness, nature, quietude, self sufficiency, thankful

I’ve just started to read a very interesting book. I am grateful for books that make me think. What are you grateful for today? Maria
Weekend Coffee Share – At My Allotment Garden

Apr 18, 2026

Allotment gardening, Blogging, Dalarna, gratitude, nature, Organic Gardening, Projects, Sustainability

April, Biking, flowers, garden, gardening, gratitude, Green Dreams Sweden, homesteading, life, mindfulness, seeds, self sufficiency, thankful, vegetables, Weekend Coffee Share

Welcome to the weekend coffee share! What can I get you? Coffee? Tea? As you can see we are at my allotment garden. It is finally time to start transferring the plants from our winter sowing. These plants where started outdoors, from seeds February 21st. They have never been inside and therefor they are more…
Weekend Coffee Share

Apr 11, 2026

Blogging, Dalarna, gratitude, Sustainability

coffee with friends, family, fencing, garden, gardening, Green Dreams Sweden, life, mindfulness, organic pest control, self sufficiency, Weekend Coffee Share, writing

Welcome to the Weekend Coffee Share. How is your week? I’d say that I’ve had a great week so far. I worked three days, had school one day, and three days off. We still have freezing nights most nights, but the day temperature is slowly getting higher. When I rode my bike up to the…
Daily Gratitude Challenge 2026 – My Seedlings

Apr 4, 2026

Allotment gardening, At my balcony, Dalarna, gratitude, Organic Gardening, Projects, Sustainability

April, cold planting, Daily Gratitude Practice 2026, food, gardening, gratitude, Green Dreams Sweden, homesteading, life, mindfulness, self sufficiency, thankful, vegetables, winter sowing

The cold planted seeds are now seedlings, that are getting slightly bigger every week. In about a month I’m going to plant them in raised garden beds. What are you grateful for today? Maria
Daily Gratitude Challenge 2026 – Easter and some time off

Apr 3, 2026

Allotment gardening, Dalarna, gratitude, Organic Gardening, Projects, Sustainability

April, Daily Gratitude Practice 2026, fertilizing the garlic, food, garden, garden favourites, gardening, gratitude, Green Dreams Sweden, homesteading, life, organic garlic, self sufficiency, thankful, vegetables

Today I am grateful for this Easter weekend. I have four days off work to enjoy with my daughter, and the things that are important to me. Today I had a long conversation with one of my best friends, another long conversation with my daughter, went for a long bike ride, and finally spent some…
Daily Gratitude Challenge 2026 – Seedlings

Mar 24, 2026

At my balcony, Dalarna, gratitude, Organic Gardening, Projects, Sustainability

Daily Gratitude Practice 2026, gardening, gratitude, Green Dreams Sweden, life, mindfulness, seedlings, self sufficiency, thankful, winter, winter planting, winter sowing

Today I’m grateful for the progress of my winter sowing. What are you grateful for today? Maria
Daily Gratitude Challenge 2026 – A surprise in the garden

Mar 23, 2026

Dalarna, gratitude, Organic Gardening, Projects, Sustainability

Daily Gratitude Practice 2026, garden, gratitude, Green Dreams Sweden, growing our own, herbs, homesteading, life, oregano, self sufficiency, surviving Winter, thankful

Judging from the picture above this might not look like much…but it is! It is my oregano surviving the winter in a gardening zone it shouldn’t. Last year my herb garden did very well. In my part of Sweden the majority of herbs are grown as annuals. My oregano plant looked strong and I decided…
Daily Gratitude Challenge 2026 – My very own soil factory

Mar 22, 2026

Dalarna, gratitude, Organic Gardening, Projects, Sustainability

Daily Gratitude Practice 2026, food, gardening, gratitude, Green Dreams Sweden, homesteading, life, mindfulness, self sufficiency, soil factory, thankful

For a few years I’ve been working with a combination of different types of composting methods such as bokashi, wormfarms, recycling yard waste, Hugelkultur raised beds, as a result every year my compost produced a little bit more of that desirable black gold. It looks like 2026 is the first year I do not have…