Peter and Anastasja: Hello everyone, Here are some updates from this week, as we have been continuing some work that we started last week. We planted a lot, and continued working in the Red House garden and Suhidol: On Monday, we planted some microgreens and peas. With the peas we experimented with a … Read more
Peter and Anastasja: Dear readers, This week we did some experiments! On Monday, together with our host Catherine, we planted tomatoes in Suhidol. Like announced previously (Week 54), we planted the tomatoes in a way that doesn’t require irrigation later on. This method, called dry farming only requires irrigation once, and later relies on intensive … Read more
Anastasja: Dear readers, After our trip to Elin Pelin, our project coordinator Mihaela visited us in Todorovo for Peter and my midterm evaluation, and for Francois’ final evaluation. We did this with different exercises. First we drew a beautiful timeline of our activities in the past months, which we stitched together with the timeline … Read more
François Hi everyone! This week we’ve been busy with something very special, under the form of an online “midterm evaluation” provided by the National Agency of the European Solidarity Corps. It was a 4-days long program, 7 hours a day, dedicated to help us reflect about our experience as volunteers in Bulgaria and think about … Read more