about

Welcome to the creative home of raori and Belgagården.

My wish with this blog is that maybe, I will be able to inspire you to start creating more yourself.

raori is run by me, Hanna, fashion designer, textile teacher and production technician. Me and my Belgian musician-husband, our three children, a cat, a dog and about 15 chickens live at Belgagården outside Uppsala. There we grow flowers and vegetables in a permaculture manner and are open for self-picking in August and September.

We are a creative little artist family who loves to make things and with the house full of children, the decision was made to stop shopping altogether. We were so tired of constant new trends, poorly made high street clothes and plastic toys that break without the possibility of repairing them, terrible working conditions in developing countries for the pleasure of the western world, with an increasingly worse climate as a result… We no longer wanted to be part of this rat race, so instead we turned off the TV with a constant stream of commercials, learned to bake and cook from scratch, how to make toys and everyday things from materials we had on hand and learned to cook it we had instead of buying new.

We left Belgium in 2016 to build a log house with a self-sustaining garden in Sweden. These years have been the most important in our lives: we have learned to value the things we own; we nurture and care for our possessions now, repairing them if they break rather than throwing them away. Not only have we learned tons of new skills, but we’ve also found a real connection with nature, the people around us, and more time to spend doing what we love and being with our kids a lot. If we really need to buy something, we shop vintage or support local artisans, farmers and shops.

Thanks for reading and good luck in the making!

Please feel free to contact me if you have any thoughts, requests, want to place an order or if you need press images.