March 2020

Help us Save Bees and Farmers

We live on a planet facing an emergency with nature disappearing at an unprecedented rate. Together with over a 100 organisations from around the EU, we are launching this initiative to show that the public supports decision-makers to take much bolder steps to transform our agriculture, save nature and support sustainable farmers that protect our countryside and provide us with fresh food daily.

Middle Eastern Cuisine

Friends of the Earth Malta together with Healthylicious will be hosting a Sustainable Cooking Workshop on Saturday, 21st March from 10:00-13:00. This cooking workshop can host up to 20 participants and you will learn how to cook with seasonal, local and homegrown ingredients. This is a vegetarian workshop but Stefania will be offering vegan alternatives for people to alter the recipe at home.

Bee Aware

BeeAware is a 7-session course which intends to give people the opportunity to appreciate the role of bees and pollinators and their contribution to biodiversity, agriculture and food production. This course is designed to give a better understanding of the role of bees as keystone creatures for the environment. It will focus both on the role of wild bees and also honey bees, and how beekeeping can be done in a sustainable way.

Panel Discussion: Art & Activism

Valletta Contemporary will be presenting a panel discussion about art as a form of activism. For this event, they invited four known names on the local art scene, whose practice directly relates to activism; political cartoonist and artist Seb Tanti Burlò, lecturer and writer Immanuel Mifsud, artist, curator and cultural manager Margerita Pulè and Raffaella Zammit from Gabriel Caruana Foundation. The panel discussion is being held in collaboration with Friends of the Earth Malta (FoEM) and will be moderated by Maria Eileen Fsadni, who is a FoEM volunteer and an art historian herself.

Shop Easter Goodies

New items! We have these two delicious chocolates in our shop:
- Egg VEGAN Classic Hemp

A vegan chocolate egg made from dark chocolate with a classic 70% cocoa content, filled with trendy hemp praline and brightly decorated with two small green tea chocolate and two white coconut chocolate eggs, roasted sesame brittle, fragrant rose petals, candied almonds and a chic white and dark soy couverture pattern. It’s wrapped in a decorative Easter gift box. All Organic & Fairtrade

- Bunny with Raspberry Filling

A chocolate bunny made from a fine milk chocolate, filled with a fruity raspberry mousse and brightly decorated with two white coconut chocolate eggs, fragrant rose petals, crunchy cocoa nibs in white chocolate and a candy-sweet caramel couverture, coconut flakes and a subtle apricot couverture pattern. The bunny is wrapped in a beautiful Easter gift box. All Organic & Fairtrade

Learning about grafting on almond trees

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Friends of the Earth Malta is currently organising a series of events called “Mill-bdiewa għall-bdiewa“ (From farmers, for farmers): informal workshops in which young farmers and others interested in agriculture and gardening share their knowledge. The latest session in the series focused on how to graft different fruit species on almond trees. On a sunny Sunday morning we gathered at the fields of Charlot Attard on the outskirts of Siġġiewi with a group of over 20 enthusiastic participants to learn more about the art and science of grafting.

'If we give up, we have lost the battle'

Till a few years ago, Adrian Gatt knew almost nothing about trees, but now his Facebook group The ‘Grow 10 Trees’ Project has the backing of over 5,000 people. Built on the simple principle that anyone with a balcony can grow a few trees, Adrian aims to populate Malta’s public areas with trees.

I meet Adrian at the back of his Sliema-apartment. It is here where he has turned his family garden into a small nursery.