The sun is shining, days are getting longer and nature is blooming. Between February and March is the best time to start preparing your garden for spring. The flowerbeds require preparation and seedlings need to be brought up. But when choosing plants, what should you…

Lush green meadows, and hardly a human being far and wide. Nature glows with new splendor and with some luck, you can spot marmots and deer. Doesn’t that sound like a dream holiday in the Alps? If you book your vacation in a less frequented…

Spring is coming. After social distancing for the past two years, isn’t this a good time to enjoy sitting in cafés and breathe some city air? One positive effect of the pandemic is the rapidly increasing demand for sustainable alternatives when traveling. Many of the…

Many of us are “digital addicts”. Addicted to information of any kind. How much time do you think Germans spend on their cell phones? According to a study by German television, it’s an average of three and a half hours a day! Don’t you believe…

What is behind the term Slow Food? The organization with the same name was founded by Carlo Petrini and some of his friends in BRA, Piedmont, as an enantiomer to “FAST Food”. Carlo Petrini defined three basic concepts for a “New Gastronomy”: good, clean and…