Freiwald e.V.

Dear friends, today you are receiving our first newsletter. That’s definitely an advantage that Covid-19 gives us — we now have time for desk work and it has to be done. These are exciting times. A friend of mine spoke about the “big pause button”, which has now been pressed. It is important for me to say that I do not want to belittle the suffering, loneliness and fear that many people are now facing, and they have my sympathy. And yet there are also positive aspects of this time. For example, air traffic has fallen enormously and the atmosphere […]

After an energetic and productive association meeting last weekend, we’ve started the new year full of energy. Our first task was to start on the trees that were adopted or given in the lead-up to Christmas. We had already planted the saplings, so now we started on their clay pendants. These trees will carry the names of the sponsors on these pendants until they are planted, and the sponsors will receive regular updates with photos. As soon as a tree is planted in our first ‘Freiwald’, this pendant will be placed next to the tree to remind us of who […]

It was a wonderful atmosphere this Saturday in the Festsaal Kreuzberg. The whole place glittered and was magically decorated. Everywhere there were beautiful things to marvel at, and soul-warming scents filled the air. For the Conscious Creators Festival a room was created that people could enjoy with all their senses. And we were there, with our planting station being the first stand in the hall, like a reception area for the visitors. In a circle, we had placed our stools around the pots with small maple seedlings, which were then planted into jute bags — trees for the Freiwald. And […]