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Imagining a different world through tree squares: a workshop
Why are there trees in the city? Before I started my research project on tree squares last year, I didn't give much thought to the...
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Jun 163 min read
For sprains, use plantain
Did you know that this common wild plant is a powerful medicinal herb that can aid in tissue repair? It was the first day of the eagerly...
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Apr 281 min read
Do an inner spring cleaning with cleavers (Galium aparine)
Between March and May, this climbing plant makes its appearance along roadsides, woods and gardens. The tiny hairs on its stems and...
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Mar 32 min read
My life as a tree
Most life stories are told chronologically: a person was born in year X, spent Y years working at something, had their breakthrough in...
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Jan 283 min read
Glimpses of paradise
I went to Saudi Arabia over the winter holidays for umrah. But I was only in Makkah briefly. The group of friends I was travelling with...
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Dec 25, 20232 min read
Boost your immunity with this fiery tonic
It’s winter now in the northern hemisphere, which means cough, cold, flu and COVID season! One simple way to ward off these and other...
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Nov 11, 20232 min read
Meet the tree square: hell strip and micro-garden in one
Where I grew up in America, the default mode of urban planning was a single-family house, surrounded by a green square of lawn. Between...
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Sep 4, 20232 min read
September in-person events in Berlin: Sinnessafari Stadtnatur & DIY bath salts
I’m happy to share I will be offering 2 in-person events in Berlin this month: a “sensory nature tour” on the 9th and a bath salt-making...
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Jul 30, 20232 min read
Cities are great places for nature writing
The living world is always around us, even in the grittiest parts of a big city like Berlin. You can find plants and animals growing and...
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Jul 8, 20233 min read
Nature doesn't need you to perform: lessons of forest bathing
According to scientific research, spending 36 hours in the woods per month provides the maximum dose of an immunity boost and stress...
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May 14, 20232 min read
A sensory path: garden therapy weekend #2
On Sunday morning, our room became a plant shop-slash-herbarium, with potted plants of various sizes all around, along with trays of...
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Apr 9, 20234 min read
From clay to grave: garden therapy training workshop #1
My table-top garden, aka soul imprint of the Indian Himalayas We began with lumps of clay that we formed into balls and passed around in...
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Mar 26, 20232 min read
Ramadan + the spring equinox
This year, Ramadan and the spring equinox in the northern hemisphere fell within just two days of each other. I was wondering if that...
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Mar 5, 20232 min read
Loving the loathly lady
(author photo: witch outside a puppet shop in Prague's old city) Old Woman Nature naturally has a bag of bones tucked away somewhere. a...
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Jan 29, 20234 min read
The peacock at Waterloo
I was standing on a seat, trying to catch a butterfly. A few minutes before, Daliah and I had stepped off the train from Wimbledon, where...
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Jan 14, 20231 min read
Finding the garden
In my mind’s eye I see ferns and mosses, their spring-hued greens sparkling against the dark conifers pointing up to the sky behind....
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Nov 27, 20224 min read
In the Underworld
A mural in Žižkov, December 2020 My days revolved around plants and birds. In the morning, I would go out to the terrace – still in my...
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Oct 30, 20225 min read
About Yew
My last apartment in Louisville was in a white Victorian house with black wrought-iron railings and green trim around the windows that...
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Sep 10, 20225 min read
What I did at Urban Gardening Summer Camp
My personal top 3 highlights: Helped build a seating area out of mud, clay and straw! Made a wallet out of a Tetrapak carton! Facilitated...
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Aug 7, 20224 min read
Weeding without gloves in Oakland
My initiation into community gardening “It’s not a class but you have to sign up for it as a class,” said Naomi*, a petite woman leaning...
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