Thanks to Green School Village we had the opportunity to visit Sweden and take a course about how to teach, how to diversify and make your teachings better. It was again similar to PDC, with main teacher and few support teachers that helped each other and gave different points of view, shared their own experiences … Read more
Hello dear ones, This week we had the lovely opportunity to a lead a workshop with the kids from the initiative “Alive Soul” from Kyustendil area, together with my coordinator Mihaela. The workshop took place in the children’s center “Live with love” in the village of Smolichano. Eight kids and their parents came to enrich … Read more
Dear readers, Greetings from Helene from the Green School Village team and its branch – Permaculture Association of Bulgaria. This is my first article in the blog and I would like to share with you our experience with Vesko (Veselin Spasov) from our journey to get a training course with certificate for teaching permaculture as … Read more
Hello dear ones, Since I embarked on this journey of this project, approximately six months have passed, and it was a time for my midterm evaluation of the project. It might sound scary at first, as we all have some freeze moment when the term “evaluation” is brought up (or at least I do), but … Read more
Hello dear ones, Last Saturday I had the opportunity to be a part of a workshop for grafting trees. I was helping with the organization and with the cooking. The workshop was in the village of Blatetz, in Kyustendil region and the man leading it was Hristo “Ashlaminatora” ( I guess his nickname in … Read more
Hello all! Today I am going to write about a fascinating topic for me – the Systems theory in Permaculture. Since I was a child I have always been thinking about the interconnections in the world so now I am curious to learn more about this concept through Permaculture. Aranya described Systems theory as a … Read more
Hello dear ones, This week we continued with the PDC sessions and the subject was themes and concepts. I passed this as a chapter in Bill Mollison’s book “Permaculture: a designer’s manual”, and it had very good impact on my because it made me knowledge on the subject more full and more clear. It connected … Read more
Hello all! This week I started reading the book “Permaculture design” A step-by-step guide by Aranya. So today I gonna write what I have learned from the first chapter which was on the topic of observation skills and more specifically – Patterns. I read my supervisor’s children book “Friends in the garden” as well. Mihaela … Read more
Hello dear ones, The main event of this week was the workshop with the children in the school called “Pateki” in Sofia. The focus of the workshop was learning about companion planting/ guilds, through play. My coordinator has written a wonderful children’s book on this subject, and we used the illustrations from the book for … Read more
Hello! My name is Polin. I am 29 years old and I am from Vratsa, Bulgaria. Vratsa is a small and beautiful city surrounded by mountains and waterfalls. Since I was born I have always been surrounded by Nature so it is not surprising at all that I want to connect better with it by … Read more