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
Hello dear ones, I am back after a week of being on a sick leave. Unfortunately, we had to reschedule our workshop with the children from the school “Pateki” due to my health conditions, but fingers crossed it will be done next week. This week I did the first testing of the cards with the … 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