Part 3 - „Living together“ in „Knyazhevska Forest” Park

It is Sunday again. The sun is shining again, giving us all its support to continue. It is the third day of our „Living together“. This week we started already on Saturday when one volunteer came for several hours and worked on cleaning the wild bushes of the forest pathways and made it ready for the next day activities.

On Sunday morning after all had gathered we continue to take away the wild bushes in the forest that before made it impassable and unapproachable. The branches and bushes, cut on the previous day, are piling up as a “green mountain” at the place specially chosen for this purpose.  

Part 2 - „Living together“ in „Kniajevska Forest” Park

Here we are again. A week after the beginning we're together back in Kniajevska forest, at the site, the place where we want to put in our good attitude towards the surrounding urban environment. To give heart and physical effort for the benefit of the local community.

We live in a world where nothing stands still, the movement and the changes are permanent. This impression was waiting for us at the future compost site, which is located near the forest, just behind the municipal bins.

Our first project

The "Living together" project kicks off on Sunday 6 October 2013 in the amazing Knyazhevska forest on the outskirts of the Vitosha mountain in Sofia.

The “our neighborhood” association, has chosen this day to start cleaning up and beautifying a part of this wonderful park.  We are creating a "River of Flowers” - 400 tulips, 200 daffodils accompanied by flowering and evergreen shrubs.  We will be building a children’s play corner installing new benches and a selection of composters.  And next spring when the flowers bloom, we’ll be ready to "feed" the soil with the organic fertilizer (manure) produced in the composters.
The first of preparation will take two weeks.  This will include tidying the area, preparing the soil, pruning bushes, and cultivating the terrain.
We hope that once the project is finished it will inspire visitors and leave an impression of what can be done when we all work together.  What if we can inspire more fantastic initiatives across the city and even through many other cities in Bulgaria, by truly "Living together"?  Helping hands, inspired ideas, project proposals, we welcome them all.  Get in touch with us if you want to be part of our amazing initiative! 

Project „Living together“in Knyzhevska Gora Park

The beginning has already become reality. On the sunny Sunday morning of October 6, 2013, we started our work under the project name “Living together”.  As if it had been influenced by the enthusiasm of the volunteers, the weather had suddenly changed from the dazing, cold and cloudiness of the previous days, into a warm and sunny autumn day.  

At the announced time - 10:00 am, most of the volunteers for the day were already on the site. Everybody took a pair of gloves, grabbed some pruning shears or the more experienced ones went for the chainsaws.

 

We started with cutting a dried out tree whose stump was formed into a "throne" for the "Children kingdom" in the Forest play corner.  The trunk of the tree was cut into smaller parts which were used to build a natural fence. This fence defines the future repose area for the people in the neighborhood, which will be equipped with benches and flower islands.