As this was not an option we had to let Matti go after only three weeks of Matti-ness.

What good times we had ! The first week I suddenly hurt my left leg and could hardly walk. So we decided against all Syntropic odds (*) to create a separate vegetable plot because this would be an activity close to the house and because Marina, Matti’s energetic sister, could throw in some freshly acquired potato planting expertise. Seline, the other friend that came along for the first week, put her architectural skills in the mix and there we went.

Actually, we should have kept all three of them.

Same as with Karolina, our Polish star, the living-and-working-together turned out to be extra nice because of their side-project generating lively conversation and Deep Talk, the latter (for me) new vocabulary but hitting the nail. Matti truly got the Syntropic bug, even more after visiting the project RegenWaves of our friends Mathias and Izabel in Palmela. It felt like living together in a green bubble the past tree… oops, three weeks. Yes, the never-ending work feels often overwhelming but it is definitely out-balanced when feeling how much happiness can be shared and generated with others in the process.

Ah and last but certainly not least, Matti left the place spic and span, ready for others to move in. And thát we can not say of all his proceeding colleagues… Anyway, we made him promise to come back.

(*) In the Syntropic way of planting the vegetables are planted with the trees and function as their placenta, bringing up nutrients rapidly and with that a strong growth impulse.