Vie durable
A handmade furniture workshop in Amsterdam since 2011: solid wood, made to measure, and clever pieces that turn a small apartment into an office by day and a bedroom by night.
6 min de lecture · Oct 2026
Vie durable
Wooden handles, horse-hair and boar bristles, plant fibres, and the miswak twig — what to brush with when you want no plastic at all.
6 min de lecture · Oct 2026
Alimentation & Boissons
A complete guide to the sugars in our food: how each one is built, how the body breaks it down, the health problems linked to each, and the rare cases where sugar genuinely helps.
14 min read · Oct 2026
Alimentation & Boissons
A consumer and maker's guide to every sweetener sold in Europe and the US: what it is made from, how the body handles it, what the latest research says, and a clear good, careful or avoid rating.
16 min read · Oct 2026
Alimentation & Boissons
What inulin, oligofructose, GOS, yacon syrup, soluble corn fibre and IMO actually are, what they do in the colon, which claims are proven, and who should be careful.
11 min de lecture · Oct 2026
Alimentation & Boissons
Dates, figs, bananas, apples, sweet potato, carrots, carob, malt, amazake, cinnamon and vanilla: how whole foods deliver sweetness with fibre, minerals and polyphenols, and how to cook with them.
10 min read · Oct 2026
Alimentation & Boissons
A practical cheat sheet for shoppers and food makers: the best sweetener for drinks, baking, ice cream, fermentation and chocolate, the 50 names sugar hides under, and EU labelling rules.
11 min de lecture · Oct 2026
Café durable
Most coffee crosses the ocean on diesel container ships. Kaap Koffie and Tres Hombres carry theirs on sailing cargo ships — slowly, beautifully and almost without emissions.
6 min de lecture · Oct 2026
Café durable
Brazil grows about a third of the world's coffee, and much of it is harvested by machines that shake the trees. Efficient, controversial, and very different from the hand-picking of specialty farms.
8 min de lecture · Oct 2026
Vie durable
Щрак brings Bulgarian social enterprises together in one welcoming Sofia space, creating visibility and routes into work for people with disabilities and other communities facing barriers.
10 min read · Oct 2026
Vie durable
The original drinking straw was a hollow stem. Here is why reed and wheat straws beat paper and bioplastic, and which makers sell them without glues or plastics.
6 min de lecture · Oct 2026
Parentalité
Today’s parents are questioning inherited patterns and learning new ways to care. Grandparents deserve a place to learn too: not a lecture, but preparation for becoming reliable members of a modern family.
9 min de lecture · Sept 2026
Parentalité
A quiet collection of real birth stories from mothers, shared anonymously or with a first name only. No advice, no judgment.
2 min read · Sept 2026
Parentalité
The Dutch maternity system is built on a simple idea: birth is healthy until proven otherwise. Independent midwives lead low-risk care, home birth is a normal choice, and after the baby arrives a kraamzorg maternity nurse comes to your home for days — cooking, teaching, watching, reassuring. It is not perfect, and the home birth rate has fallen, but as a model of humane, mother-centred care it remains one of the best examples in the world.
8 min de lecture · Sept 2026
Vie durable
Most cleaning cupboards are full of promises and half-hidden chemistry. We searched for a fully natural line that still gets the job done — and found Sonett.
5 min de lecture · Sept 2026
Café durable
A practical checklist for anyone building a roastery: green coffee, grinder, cupping bowls, sustainable bags and the quiet tools that turn a first roast into a repeatable craft.
5 min de lecture · Sept 2026
Parentalité
Enemas before birth, caesareans without a medical reason, medication to stop milk, early formula and supply, and why night breastfeeding really is harder. What each practice is, why people choose it, and where the criticism deserves to be questioned.
14 min read · Août 2026
Parentalité
One pair of oversized merino men's sweatpants from John Merino in Amsterdam, worn from early pregnancy through a year of motherhood, worn into holes, and then repaired with a patch made from barely-worn baby trousers. A small story about circular clothing, repair, and what motherhood actually does to a body and a mind.
6 min de lecture · Août 2026
Parentalité
Haemorrhoids after pregnancy and birth are common, temporary and rarely discussed. What they are, why pushing invites them, and the remedies worth keeping in the drawer — eucalyptus cream and the Dutch classic, Curanol.
9 min de lecture · Août 2026
Café durable
Why a bag of specialty coffee costs several times a supermarket one — picking, altitude, yield, processing, and the difference between fair trade certification and the way specialty coffee is actually traded.
8 min de lecture · Août 2026
Café durable
There are only four real ways to take caffeine out of coffee, and only a few dozen plants in the world that do it. Here is the index of methods, an honest chemical-versus-not assessment, and a directory of the known facilities by region.
14 min read · Août 2026
Parentalité
Breast milk changes by the hour, by the day, and by whether the baby is ill. Night milk is not day milk. Milk fed to a sick baby is not the milk from a week before. Here is what is actually happening, and why pumping cannot reproduce it.
9 min de lecture · Août 2026
Parentalité
Un avis personnel sur des vêtements d'allaitement qui ne reposent pas sur des fermetures éclair, avec une recommandation pour Latte Mamiato à Anvers.
5 min de lecture · Août 2026
Habitudes & Mode de vie
Not a cure-all, but the closest thing I have found to nudging the body back online — and a quiet recommendation for Gil Ton at AcuMed in Amsterdam.
4 min read · Août 2026
Vie durable
Ce dont les produits menstruels sont réellement composés, ce que les preuves scientifiques montrent et ne montrent pas, et l'équipement en coton lavable que nous recommanderions à quiconque part de zéro.
8 min de lecture · Août 2026
Alimentation & Boissons
Le brassage sans alcool a cessé d'être un compromis il y a environ cinq ans. Un bref guide sur ce qui s'est réellement amélioré, la manière de lire une étiquette 0,0 et la boutique néerlandaise où nous commandons.
6 min de lecture · Août 2026
Vie durable
La plupart des matelas vendus aujourd'hui sont en mousse pétrochimique. Voici ce que disent les faits sur les émissions, la chaleur, la durabilité et la fin de vie — et trois fabricants travaillant exclusivement à partir de fibres végétales et animales.
11 min de lecture · Août 2026
Alimentation & Boissons
Petites boîtes, récoltes identifiées, boutiques qui répondent aux questions. Un guide pratique pour acheter du matcha en Europe sans gaspiller d'argent ni de thé.
6 min de lecture · Août 2026
Alimentation & Boissons
Moisissures contre filaments de levure, cuvées de vinaigre, départs en vacances et moment d'arrêter. La partie que personne n'écrit parce qu'elle n'est pas photogénique.
6 min de lecture · Août 2026
Alimentation & Boissons
Un chasen, un bol large, un tamis et une eau à la bonne température et à la bonne dureté. Ce qu'il faut acheter, ce qu'il faut éviter et comment préserver son fouet.
6 min de lecture · Août 2026
Vie durable
Sluishuis est l'un des bâtiments durables les plus photographiés d'Amsterdam. Nous l'examinons à travers quatre prismes — matériaux, déchets et réparation, énergie, éthique — puis nous posons la question la plus difficile : quel effet cela fait-il d'y vivre ?
9 min de lecture · Août 2026
Alimentation & Boissons
Most bad matcha is not bad matcha — it is good powder treated like instant coffee. Grade, water temperature, sieving and whisk technique, explained.
6 min de lecture · Août 2026
Alimentation & Boissons
Kombucha is sweet tea fermented by a bacterial and yeast culture. The method is simple; the failure modes are where the learning is.
8 min de lecture · Août 2026
Alimentation & Boissons
Kefir asks less of you than any other ferment: milk, grains, a jar, a strainer, one minute a day. Here is how to keep it alive and tasting good.
5 min de lecture · Août 2026
Alimentation & Boissons
A starter is flour and water. A loaf is four ingredients and a schedule. Everything else people tell you about sourdough is decoration.
9 min de lecture · Août 2026
Alimentation & Boissons
Two to five days sealed, 10–20% flavouring, and a plastic test bottle. How to get fizz without shrapnel, and how to reuse bottles safely.
7 min de lecture · Août 2026
Alimentation & Boissons
Grades are marketing. Harvest date, origin, cultivar and milling are the facts that predict the cup. How to read a tin, and what silence on a label means.
7 min de lecture · Août 2026
Alimentation & Boissons
A 3-litre jar, swing-top bottles, loose tea and plain white sugar. The kit is trivial; the sourcing questions are not.
7 min de lecture · Août 2026
Alimentation & Boissons
Before the jar: what the SCOBY is, what the two ferments each do, and the small number of facts that make everything else make sense.
6 min de lecture · Août 2026
Alimentation & Boissons
Before method, before gear: what separates matcha from green tea ground up, and why shade, steaming and stone milling change the cup.
6 min de lecture · Août 2026
Frogwise
Sept critères, appliqués de la même façon à chaque fois, publiés dans leur intégralité pour que vous puissiez ne pas être d'accord avec nous.
6 min de lecture · Juil. 2026
Parentalité
Mousse, latex, ressorts et certifications — une analyse factuelle des données sur ce sur quoi dort votre enfant dix heures par nuit.
8 min de lecture · Juil. 2026
Café durable
Compostable ne veut pas dire qu'il se composte dans votre jardin. Un guide pratique pour les torréfacteurs qui choisissent un sachet.
7 min de lecture · Juil. 2026
Café durable
Ce que le passage du gaz à l'électricité change réellement pour votre consommation d'énergie, vos profils et vos coûts.
5 min de lecture · Juil. 2026
Vie durable
Limites de COV, peintures minérales et pourquoi l'odeur d'une pièce fraîchement peinte est une information.
6 min de lecture · Juil. 2026
Vie durable
Douze semaines de lessive familiale ordinaire, un même ensemble de taches, et un examen de chaque liste d'ingrédients.
9 min de lecture · Juil. 2026
Parentalité
Qu'est-ce que la naissance Lotus ? La naissance Lotus — également appelée non-section du cordon ombilical — est la pratique consistant à laisser le cordon ombilical intact après l'accouchement, permettant au bébé de rester relié au placenta jusqu'à ce que le cordon naturellement…
7 min de lecture · Mai 2025
Parentalité
Comment j'ai découvert l'accouchement sans douleur & 2 courts récits de naissance Tout le monde autour de moi semblait convaincu que l'accouchement allait ressembler à un marathon… en feu. J'ai hoché la tête poliment, mais dans ma tête je me disais : Il y a sûrement un…
5 min de lecture · Avr. 2025
Parentalité
Home birth—the decision to deliver a baby in the comfort of your own home—is experiencing a quiet resurgence. While still relatively uncommon in many countries, the Netherlands offers a shining example of how this…
4 min read · Avr. 2025
Parentalité
🌸 Top Books for a Beautiful Birth & Empowered Postpartum Journey Whether you're preparing for your first birth or looking to enrich your knowledge for a more empowered experience, diving into the right resources can…
2 min read · Avr. 2025
Parentalité
The most natural way for labor to start is when a woman’s body decides the time has come. A surge of hormones sets contractions in motion, pain is eased by the body’s own chemistry, and birth begins in its own rhythm.…
4 min read · Avr. 2025
Parentalité
Childbirth is universal, but it hasn’t always looked the same. Across centuries, continents, and cultures, birth has evolved—shaped by beliefs, tools, traditions, and power. Here’s a brief walk through the history of…
4 min read · Avr. 2025
Parentalité
Recently someone told me that since labour carries the meaning of hard work, birth must be a hard work. In English ... however, birth goes beyond language. So I was curious what does labour translate into in other…
3 min read · Avr. 2025
Parentalité
A German-Engineer-Dad Compatible Guide to the Chaos of Tiny Humans Who Just Discovered They Have Opinions. Part IV of the Manual for Julian.
2 min read · Feb 2025
Parentalité
The first night, the foggy days, milk, cramps, nappies, the witching hour and the first tooth — the newborn half of the manual, on its own.
7 min de lecture · Feb 2025
Parentalité
A German-Engineer-Dad-Friendly Field Guide to birth itself: contractions, the placenta, the water, the hospital, and the case for staying home.
8 min de lecture · Feb 2025
Parentalité
The edition that was promised: the nine months before the birth, written for a father who wants to know what is actually happening and what he can usefully do about it.
9 min de lecture · Feb 2025
Parentalité
💡 The Magic of Shared Resources As a start, I’d like to say—I’m a huge fan of the sharing economy in many cases. Sharing resources helps us consume less and build stronger communities , since trust and care are at the…
4 min read · Nov 2024
Parentalité
How to Thrive (Not Just Survive) Pregnancy isn’t just about growing a tiny human — it’s about discovering your instincts, your power, and maybe even your sass. Yes, there will be nausea, aches, and mood swings. But it’s…
3 min read · Nov 2024
Parentalité
👶 So What Happens After the Baby Comes? One big change: I connected deeply to my other mom friends. There is so much uniting in the experience. And no matter my attempts to keep connected to the non-mom friends too,…
3 min read · Oct 2024
