I tell you about one of my favourite spots to go for an autumn walk. It is on the estate of the Dutch nature preservation organisation Natuurmonumenten. In ‘s Graveland. As I live nearby, I walk a lot here. In autumn it is The Best Place. You will see lots of coloured trees and if you […]
Author: Katja Staring
Join the challenge on Instagram with #spreadnaturelove
Every Sunday evening, DailyGreenspiration posts a collage of nine pictures that were posted with hashtag #spreadnaturelove that last week. I would adore you if you make it a habit to use the hashtag #spreadnaturelove when posting a nature picture: let us all show the beauty of nature to everyone in our timeline! It is so […]
Violin forest for music lovers
More than half of the province of Trentino is covered by forests. They purify the air, protect towns and crops, give room to biodiversity and are also important for tourism and leisure. One forest is very special, the so callled Resonant Wood, or: violin forest. Stardivarius used the precious trees from here for his famous […]
Sarah discovered the forest and wrote a wild book
Sarah Devos from Belgium wrote a forest book, in Dutch: Het bosboek. I follow her on Instagram and already saw she has an unusual approach to nature. An approach I like đŸ™‚ I asked her for an interview and was allowed to have an early peek in her book: love it! Sarah studied communication management, […]
A dark sky hike is a true experience
Did you know that large parts of our world are suffering from light pollution? And that animals and human beings live a much healthier life when they experience a frequent dark night? For billions of years, all life has relied on Earth’s predictable rhythm of day and night. It’s encoded in the DNA of all […]
Urban Greeners share knowledge on a desert island
Along a highway, in the middle of an urban area of the Dutch city Almere, the Urban Greeners have found a desert island: Utopia. It is becoming the place where young entrepreneurs can explore, experiment, meet and share knowledge about how to live a green urban life. Now and in the future. There is a […]
Recipes for blackberries, grapes and figs
In august the fruit harvesting season starts. In our own garden we have green and blue grapes, figs and raspberries. The traditional brambling is coordinated by my husband, who likes to hunt for his blackberries on some of his absolutely secret spots in nature. Sometimes he comes home with quite a bunch, so I have to […]
Add an artistic schwung to your garden
In the tiny village Witharen, there’s a artistic statue garden. The site is a beauty in itself, but the real surprise is the art that is displayed in all corners. The exhibition is constantly changing, because the art is for sale. This year there’s new artists displaying their work, with about a hundred items. To me […]
Garden holiday in the French region Brittany
The French region Brittany is the one where it rains quite sometimes. Situated on a piece of land that stretches out in the Atlantic ocean, weather conditions are much alike the UK. So… that makes it a great place for gardeners. Did you know that Bretagne counts over 140 gardens? I visited two of them, […]
Soundblog: mindful echoes of the mountains
When visiting the Alps, I came across some sounds that are so mindful to me, that I recorded them for a short while. Listen to those mindful echoes! Those cow bells, what a typical mountain sound… A refreshing and soothing mountain stream, with the singing of birds in the background: Want to read […]