Letters from the Foothills

Wilczyska · Ciężkowice Foothills · Biała valley

Windy Farm is not a one-season project. We renovate, plant, learn off-grid living, and life between Kraków and the village.

The blog is the public chapters. Letters from the Foothills is correspondence: wins, failures, plans, and things we do not publish on the site.

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We write the way people used to write letters: once a month, from the place where we live — not as a notification about a new blog post.

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Each letter includes a few things from the month (farm, renovation, forest, kitchen, energy), at least one thing not on the blog, and a short horizon: what is next.

You will not get a “we published a new post” alert (that stays in RSS), a Ciężkowice travel guide, or a weekly link digest.

In a year there will be more of what we plant today. In a few years, the next experiments with energy and soil.

The letter is a chronicle of this place from now.

Ewa Bala

A “village woman from the city” — and she is fine with that. Biologist by training, clinical research by day, hands in the soil after hours. She cooks, experiments, preserves, and disappears into the forest for mushrooms — because sitting still in one place is simply not an option.

Robert Bala

Generation X, long in IT, but most at home with what is tangible: doing things yourself, proven solutions, and knowledge earned in practice. Digital order on one side — soil, tools, the farm, and life closer to nature on the other.

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