The fire island: Mango treasures and the loss of beautiful pines
La Palma and its treasures The patience-teaching silent-retreat ferry Why book an expensive room when you have a good sleeping bag and mattress? Just bring your sleeping mask; it was…
Sprint for life: escaping an avalanche
While most of my articles are more on life around me, this article is on the life in me. So often, I forget about this ongoing process, this force without…
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Greying out: the whispering of the vanishing glaciers
You enabled life on the edge, you created one of the most vulnerable ecosystems with niches adapted to a rough life up in great heights. But these life communities are…
Stopping the belowground cancel-culture
Why is this plant or tree not growing? Is there a quick-fix that solves the problem? Can some numbers solve the riddle? Phosphorus is missing, phosphorus is added. Is it…
On safeguarding toads across the road
My PhD brought me not only to Spain but also to Italy through a 2-year stay at the European Commission's research center at the Lago Maggiore. The resesarch centre there…
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Mourning the dying olive trees in Puglia
When woofing in Puglia harvesting olives, meeting farmers loosing their family heritage, loosing their beloved trees to Xylella, a bacterial pathogen fast spreading in the South of Italy since 2013.…
On hosting wasp spiders in my first tomatoe djungle
Two years of gardening in Italy: From first harvest joys to being gardening burnt-out Gardening. As a child/teenager, I connected gardening mostly to some unnecessary, expensive, artificial looking ornamental flower…
Turquise Turkey treasures: from Fethiye to Kas
Encounters with some incredible beautiful colours of life on the Lykken way indulging in wild carobs, forging new friendships that transcended language barriers, marveling at hatching sea turtles, engaging in…
From the front of climate change – the daily gamble of farmers
What was on your plate for your last meal? Food concerns us all: we all eat, and we all make food decisions multiple times per day. While for some people…
Reconnecting with home picking strawberries
Just with the onset of Covid, I finished my Masters. The pandemic postponed my PhD leaving me with lots of time and less options to run away. Sometimes being stuck…
Of heirloom seeds, farmers’ stories & Sari-struggles in India
It took me four years to process and I believe I have only begun to grasp the myriad perspectives, colors, smells, and diversity I encountered during my time in India.…