Soil4Life

August 22, 2020, corresponds to the approximate Earth Overshoot Day . Earth Overshoot Day marks the date when humanity’s demand for ecological resources and services in a given year exceeds what Earth can regenerate in that year. This is a real and scary fact that should have us jumping into action as a global community! For this reason, CCIVS calls IVS and other projects  all over the world to do a practical action to reduce carbon emission and contribute to Climate Justice . An effective manner for the IVS movement to raise awareness about our work is to showcase our good practices! We believe that from our homes, our gardens, we also can defend the values of this campaign and, for this reason, we want to call on you to share your actions, staff members, board members, activists, volunteers, to post on your social media what have you done and what you are doing from home under the hashtag #LocalActionsGlobalChange       CCIVS will be retweeting a...

  Hey everyone,    I hope you are still doing good in those crazy times- getting the hands dirty in soil definitely helps to forget everything else, at least!  I just wanted to share an update from my garden, which by now - even though I am still fighting to save some food from rabbits, mice, birds and slugs - provides me with enough veggies and fruit to have a quite healthy everyday diet. See below a picture of an usual everyday-harvest (today: potatoes, zucchini, cucumber, beans, carrots, peas, spinach, radishes, salad, eatable flowers, leek, currant, strawberries, tomatoes and apples)!      I am using compost tea quite a bit on those plants who need and like it, but other than that I just let nature do its magic for now. Everything explodes- the mounds and valleys I built inspired by Kate are barely to be seen, the raised bed disappears more and more, too. Just awesome to watch it- and quite a bit of work; like another baby, really!