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Our ‘Spread The Love’ Valentine's Day Hamper 2019 is now available! Why Should You Buy? The team at Friends of the Earth Malta wants to promote planet-friendly products and show you how much better they are for your health and for our environment. By purchasing these products, you are not only supporting organic farming, fair working conditions for farmers and zero waste lifecycles, but you are also supporting us as an not-for-profit NGO!
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By eating meat and dairy food products, one could potentially be affecting climate change drastically. This is due to such a large demand for these food groups, that is already unsustainable as it is, considering the fact that these products are some of the most harmful to the environment in terms of food groups.
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Friends of the Earth Malta will be hosting their first Environmental Film Club in collaboration with Kinemasik. The Environmental Film Club 2019 will include 12 sessions of thematic film screenings all linked to relevant environmental topics. Our first session will start on the 22nd Feb focusing on the thematic issue of Land Use and the Construction Industry.
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Crop Growing Workshop - Series 1
As part of the Erasmus+ Growing Together project, we will be hosting two series of Crop Growing workshops, with the first series taking place this coming March. The series will be made up of 4 sessions and will aim at teaching youths, aged 13 to 30, how to upcycle pallet wood to create raised beds, how to seed and plant, how to take take of their crops and maintain a garden as well as how to create a compost heap. Interested? More details in our next newsletter and on our facebook page.
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Interview with Perit Ruben Abela from Wirt iż-ŻejtunHow often do you check the news only to read headlines which tell a story of environmental and cultural destruction? The endless widening of roads, petrol stations being built on virgin land and centuries old buildings being replaced by monstrous apartment blocks. In the early months of 2018 news sites pronounced...
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Paul is a local farmer working in the limits of Rabat. He has been farming from a very young age since when he used to help out his father in the fields. At the age of 18 he went off to work in the hotel industry but ultimately returned to his true passion at age 36. He has been working as a full-time farmer for 12 years now and he loves his work. He grows a wide variety of crops mainly carrots, potatoes and strawberries.
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Fun fact – Red cabbage can be used as a natural dye for food or clothes, or even in kitchen science experiments since it is considered an indicator for acids and bases which changes colour when a liquid is added to the red cabbage juice. Because of this, a red cabbage can vary when grown in different soils due to the pH of the soil itself!
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Every donation, no matter how small, is an invaluable contribution towards Friends of the Earth Malta's work.
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