EVIM Volunteers create a Rock Garden

17 youths of EVIM Wiesbaden, Germany were over for a work week during the framework of their Voluntary Social Year. Together they constructed and shaped a rock garden on the slopes of the Gusterita property.
They worked hard and showed a lot of team spirit while laying the ground work for the future herb patches.
They mounted and repaired a number of donated bicycles and visited the old town of Sibiu as well.

School Garden Workshop for Brukenthal Students

Last weekend, 22 nine-graders of the Brukenthal Lyceum and their teacher Octavian Pop joined the project Schoolgarden Gusterita. Pastor Kilian Dörr led the workshop and Mark Redden contributed his expertise. Roswitha und Günter Scherer laid a helping hand as well on the part of the Evangelical Parish Gusterita.

The students visited the ateliers of artists Tetsuro Kano, Tokio and Rie Kawakami, Sapporo. The artists are working in the school building for six weeks.

Ecological Gardening Seminar

The "Green Church" started a series of ecological gardening seminars with Karl Hann, ecological expert from Carț who will guide us in setting up our school garden.
The seminar was attended by Mr Gross, chairman of the church board, the Farcasiu family, the gardening team of Șelimbar deacon team, the colleagues and volunteers of Gusterita as well as five university professors and twenty agriculture students of the Lucian-Blaga University, Sibiu.

Why should the soil not be ploughed? What is the purpose of weeds in a garden? How can we obtain humus-rich soil? Which plants complement each other? All these questions met with surprising agreement and with basic skepticism at the same time.

Agreement was reached on the following points: the series of seminars will continue with practial work in the garden. The university will undertake to test the soils in the various parts of the property while the students will share in planting trees for "green filters" and the orchard. They are joined by the Agency for Environment and Romsilva. The students will develop and realise a concept for garbage recycling and removal for the entire property. 

Preparations for the Gusterita School Garden

A sunny day helped everyone to come out of their hibernation. The parish field is being cleaned of corn stubs and will be turned into a school garden teaching ecological gardening.

16 volunteers from Gusterita and Sibiu gathered quickly and shared in the work on Saturday afternoon, 22 February. As you can see, the work was finished soon, even the little ones worked hard to help. 
Afterwards, there was tea in the school kitchen. The children had lots of fun using the new mobile playground, sponsored by ifa Stuttgart, Germany.