My Nonprofit Reviews

I am a student from Germany and I had the pleasure to learn from the Hummingbird Project during an Organic Agruculture Course in India in 2013. I have grown up with parents that tought me about nature and gardening so that I could develop an intuitive understanding about soil and nature. But Chris and Marilyn deepened my understanding and opened my eyes in a way that I am still very greatful for!

This is part of my reflexions that I wrote right after the course:
"Some days ago, I was so lucky to be able to examine a soil sample through a microscope. It was exciting and surprising to me to observe the colourful landscape of decomposed organic matter and living microorganisms: slowly moving bacteria, jumping protozoa and nematodes and beautiful fungi in-between. One can actually see the life in the soil! Just look at the earthworms that are visible to our bare eyes. They turn organic matter into fertile soil.

A plant and the soil are intimately connected and I only start to understand their intricate relationship.
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There are dead soils all over the world. In dead soils there are no microbes. Thus, soils are infertile and cannot nourish a plant. Once the chemical fertilizer has killed the soil, it will demand more and more fertilizer in order to replace the microbes and their miracle of work.

I don’t understand how we have lost our knowledge about soil and ultimately have stopped to believe in soil."

This course left me incredibly inspired and so ready to learn much more in order to be empowered to implement practically what I have learned. By now I have also a Permaculture Design Certificat and I am looking forward to see where I will engage in the future. The Hummingbird Project is a gift to the world today!

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