IDEA

Zero Waste! That’s part of the dreaming. In coordance with Circular Economy and Permaculture (”every output is an input”) we aim to one day not have to take anything off the land that we bring here. No single-use plastic, no toxic waste, nothing that can’t be recyled or upcylced and transformed. No waste!

As you can imagine, we are not there yet. Far from it. Since the beginning we have been practicing mindfulness in our way of buying and organizing resources we need, taking into account how they are prodcuced and what happens with the matter once it’s job is done/the thing was used. We see this part of practicing Conscious Consumption, one of our guiding values

We are welcoming all advice and help on reducing our waste! :) Get in touch with us here

NOW - what we are doing

• Practicing conscious consumption. Like smart food shopping:
  • buy only what we need and eat - avoid food waste 100!
  • avoiding single-use plastic as much as possible
  • buy in bulk (25kg bags of rice,…)
  • make from scratch where we can
  • (and buy locally, from more regenerative sources as possible, and supporting small scale businesses along the whole line. Not part of zero-waste but very important to us <3)
• Upcycling and DIY
  • We make what we can from scratch/ourselves. We collect things from nature, from next to trash bins, from give-aways and turn them into baskets, tables, jewelry, clothes,…
• Storing materials
  • We keep glass jars instead of throwing them. We use them mainly as tupper ware or for making jams, chutneys, pestos,…
  • We store the materials we take down from old projects to use them again. Could be wood used for a new structure or wood scraps that turn into signs and co.
• Circular economy examples
  • Yep, human waste can be waste or can be fertilizer. We compost our humanure for 1-2 years and it becomes wonderful fertile hummus for our trees!
  • Same with the pee, mixed 1:10 with water it is a great nitrogen fixer!
  • And whatever kitchen scraps we have either turn into chicken food or it goes to the compost to become best fertige hummus for our garden!

FUTURE - what we would love to do

• Have a big, dry, well organized and easy to access storage to store materials for later reuse and upcylcing
• Grow and transform so much food that we don’t need to buy any single-use packed foods
• Educate people about how we managed to reduce and finally move away from trash