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
Hello dear ones, The wheel of spring starts to turn, and so do the dynamics of our project. Not that it was steady until now, but most of the work that has been done so far it was inside and behind closed doors. Now at the end of February we are taking things more outside … Read more
Hello dear ones, The subject of this week’s blog is trees, as you can see from the featured image, which I took from the site pixabay.com. It is a very useful website where people upload beautiful and quality photography from all over the world, no copyright and for free use. Anyway, back to our subject. … Read more
Hello dear ones, The passing week, two of our dear fellow members of the Green School Village, had the amazing opportunity to travel to Sweden, in order to participate in the course for permaculture teachers. The course will take place in the permaculture school called “Holma”, whose members are dear friends and colleagues of the … Read more
Hello dear ones, This week, I continued my adventure with Bill Mollison’s “Permaculture: A designer’s manual”. I finished chapter five, which was as I mentioned about the climate factors. The last part in this chapter was called “A designer’s checklist”, and it is like a summary of what to consider on this subject when one … Read more
Hello dear ones What I love the most about the volunteering project, besides the fact that I am learning super cool things and get to create teaching materials, is the friendships I made. Last weekend, my coordinator Mihaela and I decided to spend time together with our families outside the working area, so went to … Read more
Hello dear ones, I am going to start my blog with the proudest moment of the week – the cards with the Permaculture principles by Bill Mollison that we made in this project, traveled all the way to Sicily and will be used in an amazing farm there. My project coordinator Mihaela went for a … Read more
Hello dear ones, This week I continued with the fourth chapter of Bill Mollison’s book “Permaculture: A designer’s manual”. The subject of this chapter is Patterns understanding. At first look the world may seem chaotic and unrelated, but if we observe it longer we may start noticing the patterns on which it is built, especially … Read more
Hello dear ones, After a more than a week of being on a sick leave, I am back. I was sick with Coronavirus, and I was not able to do any work. My working week started on Wednesday. The days following, I finished with the third chapter of Bill Mollison’s book “Permaculture- a designer’s manual”. … Read more