The pandemic is still here! Depending where you live, you might not be able to anything really. Here in Germany, the sun suddenly came out and declared springtime. Everyone is out and taking walks. They pass by my mothers garden, which is now again filled with crocusses, snowdrops and “winterlings” as they are called in…
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Monthly Nature Care Challenge | October 2020: Get Political
Ugh! I had a technical fail and never realized this Post didn’t upload when I told it to, just before hastily closing my laptop. So this one is a little belated. But on the plus side, now I can add pictures of my latest protest adventures during a pandemic. Times are crazy and the destruction…
Monthly Nature Care Challenge | May 2020: Plogging
This month, I challenge you to try out Plogging. It’s just like regular jogging, or (power) walking, if that’s more your flavour, while simultaneously picking up the litter you pass by and disposing of it properly.
Save the Date: Earth Day 2020
SAVE THE DATE: April 22nd, 2020 the world is celebrating the 50th annual Earth Day! Every year, the topic is a different one. Last year, it was all about saving our species. This year, and not unrelated, the theme is take climate action. We already are feeling the first effects of climate change: Excessive precipitation…
Earth Day 2019
Its time for celebration! Celebration of your planet, our home, our marvelous space ship! The first Earth Day was a huge peoples movement in 1970 and it has since become the widest spread non-religious day celebrated world wide. Every year on April 22nd, we celebrate our planet by doing things that benefit our planet, and…
Bee Friendly
It’s springtime! The first flowers are popping up in the garden spreading happiness and in me a prehistoric feeling of hope and reawakening. Our garden has erupted into a delicate firework of white snowdrops (Galanthus nivalis), purple crocuses (Crocus vernus sp.) and yellow winter aconite (Eranthis hyemalis). It is even warm enough for the first…
Everything I Know About Containering
Containering, also referred to as dumpster diving or skip diving, is an activity in which people go, well, dumpster diving in the dumpsters of supermarkets, cafés and delis to find food that is still perfectly edible and was simply thrown away because it was not pretty enough, or had passed its sell-by-date. In the extremely…