Lazy gardening
at 57° north.

Compact beds, companion planting and a self-built cabin in the far north — growing more by doing less, with a little help from technology.

When vegetables define the rules

One idea, applied everywhere: design life so the good things grow on their own.

01.

Grow

A compact potager at 57° north — and everything else that grows in everyday life when you give it room.

02.

Redesign

You never build just once. Beds, buildings, routines, budgets — small and big tactical moves that make life work better.

03.

Simplify

Less waste, fewer things, smarter tools. Simple daily operations — and quiet technology — that give the hours back.

04.

Reinvest

Put the time you saved back where it matters — people, community, and the ground you stand on.

Guides that earn their keep

All guides

Complete bed recipes.

Twenty years of companion planting, packaged: one raised bed, one plan — layout, seed list and timeline, adjusted to your growing zone. Pick a recipe, plant it, done.

Browse combinations
Bed recipe: corn, zucchini and pumpkin — hand-drawn illustration

Sweet corn · Zucchini · Pumpkin

Field-tested · almost no weeding

Right now in the garden

The log

I made 5 big changes.


This is what happened.

Quit the corporate job. Built my own consultancy instead. Leveraged the freedom that bought me. Cut the waste. Let tech do the boring parts. Vegocracy grew out of the third one — this is the hobby that freedom made room for, not the business itself. The story behind why everything here connects.

"A life, like a garden, is never finished — it is tended."

Read the story

The occasional letter.

Seasonal, useful, short. No noise — that's the whole point.