Taking care
When it comes to helping our planet a truth that we may often forget is how, to do our part, it isn’t really necessary to create something from scratch: we have everything already here and our only duty is just to take care of it.
How do we do this in the Auróra Klímakert project?
Little by little, from a parking lot, a beautiful climate garden had the chance to grow and thrive, and it’s thanks to the process of taking care that it has been possible;
By using our food scraps as food for the soil, the recycling of unused materials, by curating the space in all its parts with patience, it clearly shows what happens when we take care of all that’s already existing: nature pays us back with 1000 more of what we have been putting in, for it’s how generous it can be.
Every little thing
If you’ll visit the garden and have a look around, if you’ll ask questions about what catches your curiosity, you’ll soon realise how every little thing in it is serving its own purpose, as none of its parts are useless.
It’s a small ecosystem with endless things happening inside of it, with each square of it serving its purpose by hosting animals and plants, even if some of them are almost invisible to the human eye.
We may not always notice at first glance but a lot of things are happening there all the time: bugs running around hunting for food, new trees bravely making their way from the ground to the surface, coming to life, birds searching for their next meal between the bushes, mushrooms nurturing and being nurtured at the same time in their own peculiar ways, all of this happening in a virtuous, self-sustaining cycle that never stops.
An open space for everyone
If you’d like to join us and be a part of this little-big change you can do it at any time, and for as long as you’d like, everyone is welcome. Every Tuesday and Sunday from 3 pm to 6 pm the Aurora climate garden is an open-door community space, where anyone can join and help with the little tasks of the day, or even by just exploring around, enjoying the space or asking questions.
You can bring your compost, which will later on become a part of the garden ecosystem, and at the right time, mostly in summer, you can even eat any of the fruits and vegetables that are growing generously on the garden bushes and trees.
Healing ourselves by healing the environment: the importance of green spaces in the city
The act of gardening, or even just doing any kind of work in nature, surrounded by insects and leaves, has a powerful healing effect on us that can’t be denied: our nervous system suddenly starts to calm down, our mind is finally able to go at a lower and more human speed, our breath becomes quieter.
In the frenetic rhythm of the city life, where in between the work and the other related obligations our minds and souls risk to get lost in the mechanical path of days, a reclamation of our human nature is maybe more important now than ever:
We need a more direct contact with nature to remember who we are, that our inner worth isn’t attached to how much we produce but to the simple fact that we exist.
We live in a modern society where nature and city don’t need to be harshly separated and, if we work towards it, can instead coexist in total harmony. The more green spaces we enrich our cities and towns with, the more value we add to the quality of our lives, and to the ones of the generations that will come after us.
If we can do it then we should, and the good news is… together we can!
