Beekeeping – God Save The Queen, Or: One For All And All For The Hive

16. October 2019.Reading time 11 minutes.

Beekeeping suit, gloves and off to the hive. During my Wwoof stay in Alberta, I was part of a bee inspection and was able to get close to the beehives. A very educational experience.

Guy Fletcher in the potato field. What he robs, becomes food right away.

Self-Sufficient Living: From The Garden To The Pot On The table

9. October 2019.Reading time 12 minutes.

We all know that healthy nutrition is important. However, „healthy“ is a matter of definition. The Fletchers eat almost exclusively organic food. I spent two weeks with this inspiring and special family.

Crater Lake in Oregon, USA - the bluest of the blue lakes.

100 Days On The Road

12. September 2019.Reading time 5 minutes.

On June 5, exactly 100 days ago, I left in Frankfurt carrying my backpack and wearing my hiking boots to step on the plane west. Since then, I‘ve had an amazing time in North America, met many wonderful people and seen impressive places. Time for an interim balance.

Kindness #3 – Everything Happens The Way It’s Supposed To Happen

9. September 2019.Reading time 6 minutes.

I had to leave the sheep farm fastly. The search for a new place to stay began and surprisingly only took a few hours – thanks to many warm-hearted and selfless people.

Hands, clothes, everything smells of sheep. Wonderful.

Milking Sheep Is Pure Joy

8. September 2019.Reading time 9 minutes.

Three weeks living and learning on a sheep farm – on my second station as WWOOFer I was particularly happy. Lamb cuddles, milking sheep, and making sheep’s milk cheese were some of my tasks. A textbook example of Farm life. And yet I had to leave the farm much earlier than planned to protect myself.

All self cooked: Chinese food in Toronto.

Kindness # 2: When Students From China Cook Together

7. August 2019.Reading time 3 minutes.

Jump at chances, someone once told me. That’s what I did when a Chinese roommate in the dorm in Toronto invited me for a spontaneous dinner with her friends. A gesture of kindness that ended in a fun and intercultural evening.

Ken, Trevor und Grace in der Einfahrt zu Keppel Croft Gardens - bereit für den Volunteer Wednesday.

Kindness # 1: Where Helpfulness Occupies Center Stage

30. July 2019.Reading time 8 minutes.

Every Wednesday, around 20 helpers come to Keppel Croft Gardens, spread across the 1.6 hectares, weed, mow the lawn, plant trees, and afterwards disappear. Every week they help Bill and Dawn Loney, the owners of the beautiful garden. They all support voluntarily. A “Random Act of Kindness”.

Every Wednesday, the group gathers for carpet bowling.

Chocolate And Licorice Balls Roll On Synthetic Fiber Carpets

19. July 2019.Reading time 5 minutes.

The ball is round – or it is not. When it comes to Carpet Bowling the non-round ball runs in a curve.