One of my objectives this year was to improve my know-how skills through making experiments. I also wanted to see how including making in my daily schedule would impact my concentration during mind-centered activities.

After being involved in the P2P Food Lab project as a Subsidies Proposal Writing Assistant, and developing some DIY bio-sourced electronics to monitor a garden, the next logical step is to… garden

Here is the page dedicated to the small garden I started on FoAM's balcony.

Everytime I walk through Brussels, I stumble on hundreds of kilos of not-that-waste materials. Rather than buying new materials, I will try to make the most of this existing resource to make objects.

However, matching what you need with what you find needs a little bit of strategy. I will therefore document here my Urban Foraging experiments and good practices.

An abundant urban waste-resource material is wood, mainly in the shape of pallets. Here is what I learned during my two first pallet dismantling experiments.

Make Origami envelopes. Only scrap paper is needed, no glue. I use them to pack up seeds for the bioproductive balcony, or to exchange them through Graines de troc and Plant Catching.

It invested some time into cooking this year. Here are some recipes.

Vegetable curry with rice

Sweet and Sour Vegetables with Semolina

Calliflower, Carrots and Parsnip Curry with Rice

I prepared Tomatillo's chutney out of green tomatillos which were kindly offered to me by Annemie after a day spent working in her rooftop garden.

Being an absolute fan of cramique, the famous raisins-containing Belgian brioche, I decided I would try to cook it myself.