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Food is part of our everyday lives but we are not always aware: where does it come from, how much work is needed to produce it, how is it processed, how does its production affect climate change? Especially the younger generation does not have sufficient knowledge or skills to consciously use food products. Whereas, intercultural cooperation, as a response to global challenges, including food, is one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations. Unfortunately, in the field of nutrition education, this cooperation has not been practically implemented at all. The Krzyżowa Foundation for Mutual Understanding in Europe and Slow Food Deutschland e. V. set out to change this by creating a joint project „Food - with tradition in modernity. Nurturing and developing the perception of the value of regional and seasonal food. Environmental communication and nutrition education in a European context".

Read more: Project ||"Food - with tradition in modernity"

In the first half of June 2020, in the relation to the garden being built on the premises of the "Krzyżowa" Foundation, there were workshops on designing an educational ecological garden in a permaculture approach.

The third and final part of the workshop is behind us: "Educational permaculture garden - design workshops". Working online, the participants had the opportunity to summarize the knowledge gained so far about the principles of permaculture design: collecting field data using their own observations and specific tools, working with maps and climate data. They used it to play the role of designers and present their vision of the garden in Krzyżowa.

Read more: Webinar "Educational ecological garden in the permaculture approach" - 18.06.2020 (VIDEO)

The controversies that currently arises in the US and some Western European countries around monuments depicting former political leaders is an extremely important issue to follow. It says a great deal not only about how much we really know about the past (and thus about the quality of historical education), but also about how we approach commemorating it in public space today.

On this occasion, it is worth letting historians have their say and recommending a text prepared by Dr Tomasz Skonieczny, deputy head of the European Academy, on the subject of monuments, in which he pointed out, among other things: do monuments provoke conflicts?

Read more: Do monuments provoke conflicts? Historian's perspective

Participants of the "Educational ecological garden in the permaculture approach" workshops spent Saturday in a very pleasant and useful way, almost all ... on the meadow. Land observation is the thing from which permaculture design begins.

We examined the soil and humidity of the terrain, and observed fauna and flora. We explored plants in the area between the moat and the Piława River, we looked at insects closely. With our imagination we have already seen a beautiful place to rest under old oaks, near the pond as part of the planned garden. We learned to determine the level using the tool used by ancient peoples - A-frame. We estimated the height of the trees and reconstructed the wander of the sun and shade around the area, considering the consequences for the plants planned at a given location. It was an exciting day and now we are waiting for the third part of the workshop on 18 June.

Read more: Report from the workshops "Educational ecological garden in the permaculture approach"