Green, ecological neighborhoods are on the rise in the Netherlands. Neighborhoods of the future, where the starting point is that we have to relate to nature in a different way. Nature-inclusive, circular, with a great eye for biodiversity, native plants, climate resilience and with a diversity of houses. Not unimportant: Tiny Houses are welcome there! […]
Spring! And drought?
Spring has started, hurray! While I am sitting on the couch writing in my nice sitting corner, I see the sun shining happily outside, and little birds fluttering back and forth in my garden. The bulbs from the Bee Foundation that I planted in October are in bloom and the first batch of spinach, radishes […]
On a road trip for the garden
Last Tuesday I went on a little road trip to collect information for the design of my future garden. I visited Esther and Arjan from Eetbaargoed.nl, went to look in the showroom at Tuinkassenwinkel.nl and made a stop by my future neighborhood, as I was in the area anyway. Making plans for the future is […]
The old and the new(s)
Dear Readers. This week I reached a huge milestone: I paid off the loan for my Tiny House! My house is now completely, 100% mine!! Six months earlier than expected too, which is great. That is a piece of the old that is completed. On to the new! The design for my future garden is […]
Let’s start at the beginning again
The time has finally come to continue my adventure. Onwards to my own lot in Olstergaard! The project manager in me wakes up, rubs her hands and takes a seat. What do I need? Five years ago, when I started planning the build of my Tiny House, I needed three things basically: a bag of […]
Book tips for people with a green heart
I actually wanted to write a new book tips blog before the summer holiday period, but it just didn’t work out. So now here it is after the holidays. Well, reading books is always nice, isn’t it, and not just during holidays? I have a few gems for you: books that touched me and that […]
Happy bee flower mix offer
Sometime in March, I sowed my own Happy Bees flower mix in some of my vegetable garden boxes. I didn’t really know what else I wanted to put in, so I sowed generously — as a kind of experiment; I would see what would come out. Now I regularly walk past my house and see […]
Vegetable garden next level
For years and years, I dreamt of having my own greenhouse. Ideally, a wooden greenhouse with glass windows. In a temporary residential location, however, this is less practical because of the uncertainty about when I need to move. Moreover, they are quite expensive, those gorgeous greenhouses. That’s why I have postponed that particular purchase until […]
Setting boundaries
Ever since I’ve been living in my Tiny House in Alkmaar, my house has received a lot of attention. That means unexpected visitors at unexpected times. At first I had strangers at my door on a daily basis. They had read about me in the paper or had heard me on a talk show. In […]
April? You could have fooled me
April was not exactly a pleasant spring month now, was it? It has been pretty chilly now and then, the nights especially were literally freezing! Thankfully my newly sprouted seeds in the garden survived, even though I neglected to cover them up during the colder nights. I have only had to fire up the woodstove […]