An impatient gardener
An overview of learning to garden in a Nordic setting, along with a description of what grows when.
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Our move to the countryside
Better being at Bastubacka
- Sep 24, 2022
- 4 min
The flash that was summer
It started with the ants, and it ended with the swallows. The first time I remember looking at the garden and thinking, "Now it must be...
- Mar 27, 2022
- 4 min
Coming home again & acquisitions
I haven't been at Bastubacka for a long time, some four weeks. That is the longest absence since we acquired the place last summer. It's...
- Jan 30, 2022
- 5 min
I have always wanted to have a neighbor just like you
I used to love watching Mister Roger's Neighborhood on TV as a kid. Sesame Street and The Electric Company were the hipper versions of...
- Aug 21, 2021
- 3 min
Surprises in the wild
As newcomers to the second home experience, there is definitely an excitement about returning to a place we left behind weeks or even...
- Jul 24, 2021
- 2 min
3 men, 1 boy, and 3 tractors
Some days you wake up to the sound of a tractor in your garden. The weirdest thing about that is that you don't own a tractor. Who, then,...
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