Beyond Buckthorns

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Beyond Buckthorns

A journey into modern permaculture, gardening, biogas and food in rural Finland!

Lumia & Dominiks life in rural Finland - gardening, permaculture, alternative energy, homesteading.

02/11/2026

The European Permaculture Convergence is coming back!

The European permaculture network https://permaculture-network.eu/ (which is supported by our NGO Vihreä Pourusmäki) will be creating a wonderful event by the community, for the community 💚

From 4–7 March 2027 we will meet online for four days of exchange, learning and connection across the European permaculture community.

The programme will be shaped by the community itself and the first step is undergoing now: The Call for Sessions is open for EuPN members.

If you have a topic, project, experience or question you would like to bring into the Convergence, you can now submit a session proposal (and if you’re not a member yet, it is easy to become a member!)

👉 https://permaculture-convergence.eu/

More about the programme, voting and tickets will follow over the coming weeks.

Know someone who should be part of this? Share this post with them 🙏

03/10/2026

A look back to August when I had the priviledge to participate in an Erasmus + training called the Stage Within 🥰 We spent a week with a pretty all-European group in Tammisaari learning about and with emotions and theatrical work in education.

The week started out tough. My nerves were spent after the death of Miss Sophie as well as another (human) death in the family. I had thought about cancelling, but decided against it. I'm glad I did. After the first days I was feeling better emotionally. Of course I caught a horrible cold (I'm still coughing now in October) but that was manageable.

I learned a lot of new ways to do and be in my own educational work, as well as the Theatre of the Oppressed, something I've been interested in a long time but haven't gotten the chance to try out before. Plus I'm just very thankful for the emotional resting space I got to experience. Thanks for this goes to the calm and friendly group of people I shared the experience with ❤

Thanks for this experience also goes to our trainers Maria and Ilianna, and for enabling it to Rauhankasvatusinstituutti and the EU with Erasmus+

📸 Rui Magro 🙏

25/09/2026

(🇬🇧 below) Kiitos kaikille, jotka kävitte viime sunnuntaina Beyond Buckthornsilla! 💚

Syksyn Avoimet Puutarhat -päivän ja European Day of Sustainable Communities -tapahtuman aikana meillä vieraili reilu parikymmentä kävijää, mukana oli myös Pälkäneen valtuutettuja ja viranhaltijoita. Pieni sade silloin tällöin ei menoa haitannut, vaan kierrokset kiinnostivat ja keskustelua syntyi niin puutarhassa kuin kahvipöydässäkin, jossa maisteltiin puolukka- ja omenapiirakkaa sekä välimerellistä kasvispiirakkaa. Hyvin maistuivat! 😋

Kiitos kaikille vierailijoille käynnistä hyvistä keskusteluista ja ajatuksista siitä, millaiselta kestävä ja hyvä elämä voisi näyttää.

Kiitos myös ECOLISElle ja Euroopan unionille päivän tukemisesta Regenerative Communities Fundin kautta! 🌱

📸 Dominik Jais

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Thank you to everyone who visited us at Beyond Buckthorns last Sunday! 💚

Bit over twenty people joined us for the autumn Open Gardens Day and the European Day of Sustainable Communities, including local councillors and municipal officials from Pälkäne. A little rain every now and then didn’t stop us. The tours attracted plenty of interest, and good conversations took place both in the garden and around the coffee table, where we enjoyed lingonberry and apple pies as well as a Mediterranean veggie pie. They went down very well! 😋

Thank you to everyone who came by, for the good conversations and for sharing your thoughts on what a good and sustainable life could look like.

And thank you to ECOLISE and the European Union for supporting the day through the Regenerative Communities Fund! 🌱

📸 Dominik Jais

23/09/2026

(🇫🇮 only) Tervetuloa SMART-CSA-hankkeen syyswebinaariin to 1.10. klo 14-15! 🌾🍁🍀

Hankkeen ensimmäinen vaihe - tutkimus ja tiedonhaku kestävyyden, permakulttuurin ja kumppanuusmaatalouden saralta - on nyt saatettu päätökseen. Tule kuulolle, esittelemme nostoja vaiheen päätösraportista sekä Suomen että muiden kumppanimaiden näkökulmasta.

Otetaan myös aikaa verkostoitumiselle ja ajatustenvaihdolle: miten kesä meni? Millä mielin talvea kohti?

Lämpimästi tervetuloa mukaan sekä viljelijät ja maatilalliset, että yhdistys- ja hankeväki, oppilaitosten edustajat, tutkijat ja asiantuntijat!

Ilmoittaudu mukaan 30.9. mennessä: https://www.vihreapourusmaki.fi/projektit/smart-csa-future-oriented-training-urban-peri-urban-farming

21/09/2026

(🇬🇧 below) Elokuussa vietimme kolme päivää Haltian kylän kauniissa maisemissa Toivosta toimintaan -retriitillä. Aktiivista toivoa, suunnitteluverkkotyötä, kaikkien olentojen neuvosto, paljon aikaa ulkona ja mainio pieni porukka. 💚

Lue retriitistä ja sen tunnelmista vähän enemmän:

👉 https://www.beyondbuckthorns.com/fi/content/event/retriitilla-kuljettiin-toivosta-toimintaan

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In August, we spent three days at Haltia’s old parsonage on our Active Hope in practice retreat. Active Hope, the Design Web, a Council of All Beings, lots of time outdoors and a lovely little group of people. 💚

Read more about what we did and how it went:

👉 https://www.beyondbuckthorns.com/content/event/retreat-journey-hope-practice

10/09/2026

Juicemaking night underway 👩‍🍳

07/09/2026

Goodbye Miss Sophie 💔

The cat named Hymy at the shelter moved in with us in August 2016. We’d moved to Beyond Buckthorns a few months earlier and I was adamant to get a cat. During my city years I didn’t live with cats, but imagining an old farmhouse without a cat was a weird thought for me. Dominik had never lived with cats and was hesitant, but I got my way and we brought this cat, estimated four years of age, home with us from the local shelter on a sunny August day.

We gave her and us a few days to get to know each other and come up with a new name for her. She was kind and friendly from the first day onwards. We were silly and tried to limit her stay to some rooms at first, and let her out way too early, but soon things settled down. We named the cat Miss Sophie, as we serving her food like James in Dinner for one – all the time (even though it was only twice a day) 😁

About one year after she’d moved in, she jumped on my lap one evening and lied down as usual. Somehow everything was different, though. She looked at me differently and I just knew in my heart she’d made up her mind: this was her home, we were her people and she wouldn’t be going away ever again.

And she didn’t. Miss Sophie died on 29th July 2026. She has been buried very close to our house, next to a stone she often climbed on when she wanted to be seen from the window, usually because she wanted be let inside.

We had a lovely ten years together. I could tell a million stories of our time together. I still expect her to come running whenever I open the door, or keep listening if she’s at the feeding station. But now Sophie lives in our hearts, and she won’t be going away ever again.

We miss you and we love you, Miss Sophie, and we thank you for being the best friend one could imagine 🧡

01/09/2026

Usually this is a June, July type of task. Life doesn't always go as planned, though. Now we're doing it in September, so let's just hope for some sunny days 🌞🙏🤔😂

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