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- Building a wooden fence yard
- Guinea fowl
- Homemade wedding
- Wood & wood species
- Growing biennial root vegetables from seed
- Time to become a professional grower?
- Take care of your tiled stove
- Beekeeping in February, March and April
- Levers, pocket memory and emergency glasses
- Återthe fund lends money to goats
- Growing chilies
Building a wooden fence yard
Few crafts have such a long tradition as fence building. It is fascinating to create something with methods used for more than two thousand years. To build a stable fence without nails and iron wire.
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3
Number of pages:
3.3
Guinea fowl
A first dawn is sensed in the east, where a lone star punctures the dark purple vault of the sky. From the bush comes the blood-curdling, bone-crunching laughter of a hyena. The grotesquely sprawling crowns of the enormous baobab trees become increasingly clear in the rapidly increasing light. From the crown of the great umbrella acacia a few hundred meters from the camp begins a terrible abysmal symphony of shrill rascals, shrill cuckoos and infernal screams; the morning serenade of the guinea fowl flock, as I have heard it every morning for the past week. Soft warmth and the scents of Africa wake me tenderly and I begin to speculate about today's excursion: will the Sahel antelope finally show itself? But something is wrong. When I fumble for my backpack, my hand finds a table lamp. A table lamp in the tent? Isn't there electricity on the Maasai steppe? I jump up. I am not on the Maasai steppe, I am lying in my Swedish bed and dreaming. But the guinea fowl's noisy, infernal cackle continues and in a flash I have it all clear to me: FOX! I fly out of bed, stumble down the stairs and rush naked as if I had slept through the morning cold towards the barnyard. Sure enough, around the barnyard corner a long, red shadow slips away like a bad conscience personified. Up from a large birch the insane serenade of the abyss continues. Once again the guinea fowl have warned of predators, and once again thanks to them I have managed to rush out and drive away the threat to the henhouse's inhabitants.
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6
Number of pages:
2.3
Series part:
18
Homemade wedding
We had the fantastic privilege of gathering our relatives and friends here at home on the farm and celebrating love with them. We wanted to celebrate our love for each other in front of people who could perhaps be called our congregation, people who could witness our love and who in the future could help us to live together through thick and thin. Being able to do it here at home, in our own way, gave us a strong sense of belonging also to the place, our peaceful and beautiful place on earth. Here we put a lot of energy and love into building, living and farming and here we live together, this is our center in the universe. It felt natural that we would get married here!
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8
Number of pages:
1.3
Growing chilies
Even if you have learned to love exotic and spicy food, you don't have to give up your ambitions to be self-sufficient. Chili peppers are easy and rewarding to grow, even in Sweden. Many varieties can also overwinter if you bring them indoors.
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10
Number of pages:
2
Wood & wood species
This is the first article in a series of articles that will cover carpentry, as well as activities and various crafts that partly belong to this topic. The focus is on those self-sufficient people who want to start carpentry (beginners) and those who have already done a little carpentry. Hopefully, even the slightly more experienced “carpenters” can also find a few new seeds of knowledge that can grow into a beautiful and fruitful tree.
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12
Number of pages:
4
Series part:
1
Growing biennial root vegetables from seed
How do you grow carrot seeds, you might be wondering. Well, not really? But turnip seeds? I thought so! In fact, seed growing is done in a fairly similar way for all biennial and perennial root vegetables we usually grow in this country. Most vegetable plants also bloom beautifully, even if the maturing seed pods can look a bit messy to the untrained eye. But they have to bloom and bloom again, that's the most basic thing in seed growing. And harvesting the seed at the right time.
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16
Number of pages:
2
Time to become a professional grower?
Are you one of Sweden's many enthusiastic home gardeners? One of those whose family and friends throughout the summer are the happy recipients of endless amounts of cucumbers, tomatoes, squash and – at least if they pick them themselves – strawberries, raspberries and currants? And whose family and friends seem to come to visit less and less as the summer progresses...? Then you may have already started to consider whether you could make others happy with your surplus of berries, vegetables and fruit – and at the same time earn a little money from it? In short, to become a professional grower, albeit on a small scale. Perhaps you even have the time, desire and land to expand production?
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18
Number of pages:
2.1
Take care of your tiled stove
Now, towards the end of the heating season, you will probably notice whether your tiled stove is doing well, or if it is time for a little care. The summer months will be an excellent time to take care of this, almost perfect, source of heat for the next heating season. Which will hopefully be snow-covered and star-studded. This text aims to provide care advice in its simplest form.
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20
Number of pages:
1.7
Beekeeping in February, March and April
Every season, we beekeepers do things that are downright crazy from the bees' point of view. But for the most part, they can fix our craziness. In some situations, the bees' situation must be very reminiscent of Magnus Härenstam's monologue: "The master builder in the stomach." If you've heard it, you probably understand what I mean!
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22
Number of pages:
4
Series part:
1
Levers, pocket memory and emergency glasses
Let's see what you think about my subject choices this time. Not everything is directly related to self-catering, but I imagine it will be interesting to many.
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26
Number of pages:
1.5
Series part:
8
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