Living healthy and comfortable without hurting the planet.
We have another big project besides the restoration of our house: planting a little food forest! We already found out that we theoretically could sustain our trees by rain water alone. Why we want a food forest In future we would love to live harmoniously with nature and not fight it. Ideally, we only go out and […]
As mentioned in our last blog post, I created a spreadsheet called Tree Satisfaction that you can view and copy it into your own library so you can use it for your own planning. The example shows the data for Barcelona and we are going through the data based on the example. But don’t worry, I will […]
If have never before really considered how much water costs. I know that store-bought water is basically a scam making people pay horrendous amounts of money for bottling something that belongs to everybody. We already talked about how filtering your own water enables you to live much cheaper. This post starts with the trees Today I researched […]
The house is one important project but equally important is the cultivation of our land. The soil is very degraded after years of only growing oats. Since late summer, we just left it as it is. Letting the weeds grow. Weeds are an indicator of poor soil health but they also help to recover the soil. Learning […]
The town hall called Sara to discuss how we pay taxes on the build. Surprised by this question, she asked whether that meant that we got the permits, because we hadn’t heard anything yet. The woman on the other side of the phone responded: “Well… when I call to talk about the taxes, that usually means that […]
As we already mentioned before, we were waiting for getting the building permits to renovate our house. We got told that it should be easy to get it but as it turns out, it’s not that easy. Regulations differ from region to region, and where we live, things are more difficult. Turns out that our house is […]
We are figuratively and literally moving closer to where we want to be. It’s been a week now that we packed our things and moved into a flat very nearby to our future home. This way, we are right where the action is happening. No more 1.5 hour long drives back and forth. No more wasting fossil […]
The Last time we went to our house, we could not finish cleaning up the insides. This is part II of the cleaning operation. This weekend we went there with Sara’s sister, her boyfriend and their two big dogs Trufa and Pintxu. After a nice lunch at a local restaurant, we arrived to the land. It was […]
This article will be extended over time with more information. Be sure to check back soon or subscribe as we will add more soon. It all starts with climate First, you need to analyze, how much precipitation (P) you can expect for each month. The website climate-data.org is a great resource to find out how much rain […]
The next big task on our list is finding a contractor who is charging a fair price for a good job. After all, we cannot do everything on our own as we do not have the required skills yet to rebuild a roof and stone walls. What needs to be done now is the following: take down […]