La Palma is the steepest island in the world. They say. Well, as I myself live in the flattest country of the world, I believe it. Me and my husband went to this Canarian island for a walking holiday. Don’t expect that walking here is like making a stroll. It comes nearer to a struggle. But […]
Author: Katja Staring
Treat your winter blues in a botanic greenhouse
Especially in February or March the winter blues is getting an annoying grip. At least here in this part of Europe. Solution: go to the nearest botanic garden and lock yourself a while in the greenhouse. The best cure. The last winter months I visited three greenhouses: in the botanic gardens of Munich, Amsterdam and […]
November blues? Get some colourtherapy in nature
Winter annoys you? Get some colourtherapy in nature! In November the Dutch photographer Else Kramer organized a 10 Day Colour Therapy, a challenge to go on the hunt for colour. In the early morning participants got an e-mail with the clue for the hue for that day. Every night I was very curious which colour would […]
Autumn Walk on the estates of ‘s Graveland
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 […]
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-called Resonant Wood, or: violin forest. Stradivarius used the precious trees from here for his famous instruments. […]
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 🙂 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 […]