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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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Anna
- Jul 30
- 2 min
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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Anna
- Jul 8
- 3 min
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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Anna
- May 14
- 2 min
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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Anna
- Apr 9
- 4 min
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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Anna
- Mar 26
- 2 min
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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Anna
- Mar 5
- 2 min
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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Anna
- Jan 29
- 4 min
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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Anna
- Jan 14
- 1 min
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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Anna
- Nov 27, 2022
- 4 min
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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Anna
- Oct 30, 2022
- 5 min
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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Anna
- Sep 10, 2022
- 5 min
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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Anna
- Aug 7, 2022
- 4 min
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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Anna
- Jul 24, 2022
- 5 min
My journey with lavender
Maybe I shouldn’t admit this, but I find some plants cooler than others. Take the Artemisias for instance: mugwort and wormwood. They’ve...
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Anna
- Jun 26, 2022
- 2 min
How herbalism treats arthritis
The main distinction between osteoarthritis (OA) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is that OA relates to wear and tear of the cartilage...
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Anna
- May 27, 2022
- 1 min
Four-flower calming tea blend
Combining four of my favourite flowers, this is a blend that will soothe and calm any time of the day. (Increasing the proportion of...
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Anna
- Mar 19, 2022
- 3 min
Pine tree medicine for the pineal gland, lungs and more
Although it's a tree, pinus sylvestris is also a herb. Pine needles can be made into teas and tinctures, and pine sap or resin can be...
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Anna
- Jan 16, 2022
- 1 min
a difficult truth
By now you will have learned that baby carrots are a fiction. Unlike other “true” baby vegetables— baby spinach, for example, baby lima...
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Anna
- Jan 1, 2022
- 3 min
Bitter magic: the subversive potential of a forgotten taste
Behold the bitter gourd. This is a vegetable I first encountered in India, one of the many that was new and unfamiliar to my...
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Anna
- Dec 21, 2021
- 4 min
Net-of-needles: stinging nettles for repair and healing
Is there a more generous, available and yet prickly plant than urtica dioica? Her nature seems to be one of essential paradox. She is a...
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