22-07-2010 | Posted by: Lonneke Engel
My dutch friend Jeroen Koeman from Ecotulips is doing an amazing job! What is that job? He is trying to change the flower industry by making it organic! You would think that all flowers that you buy in markets are organic, but fact is that most flowers and plants are grown with a lot of chemicals and pesticides. This is bad for the bees and for other animals, and of course the ground they grow in. Ecotulips is offering beautiful, organic flowers. I will profile this company a bit more in the future.
For now I received an email that you can get a discount until August 1st!:
"Hello eco-friendly friends!
This message is for every eco-friendly farmer/gardener in your network.
eco-friendly organizations and farmers this year a chance to purchase organic bulbs for a low price, to support organic gardening.
Our pre-season bulk sale gives up to 80% discount to all:
Order deadline August 1st.
Help me reach my goal to increase the market share of organic flower bulbs from 0.1% to 1% in 3 years!
Visit http://www.ecotulips.com/categories/Pre-season-bulk-sale and click on the “like” button, thanks!
Together we can make it a better world, send this message to your eco-friendly friends!
All the best,
The Tulip Man"
will you order organic tulips for your community?
Picture: "The Tulip Man" Jeroen Koeman and his tulips
11-05-2010 | Posted by: Irene Dirks
A week ago I returned from a vacation in Zwitserland.
My boyfriend’s parents live near Montreux and have a beautiful view of the lake of Geneva. We try to go and visit them regularly and from there take trips to Vevey, Montreux, Lausanne or Geneva together.
The last few times we went in the December month to visit them for Christmas. My boyfriend’s parents then always like to take walks on the mountains. They are really good at it and go up so much faster than I could ever! I’m not used to climbing mountains, let alone in the snow! (No practicing that in NL!) So for me this is always very difficult.
This time we decided to take a little longer visit in April and from there take a nice trip somewhere. Because we wanted to do something different then taking walks and visiting the cities nearby, we decided to take a biketrip AROUND the lake of Geneva!
In Switzerland they call this a tour de Lac (lake of Geneva is called Lac Léman in French).
It was my first time on a camping vacation ever!
I never did that with my parents. (my dad would never!) And since then I never did it myself either.
But we had the BEST time together! Being with just the two of us was so fun and romantic.
In Switzerland there was a bike-route all the way up to Geneva that went through all the little villages, past lovely castles and through the fields and we saw lots of cows, goats, birds and flowers (it went even past a tulip festival! So amazing!).
And the view across Lake Geneva of course! It was always spectacular!
We met so many nice people and the weather was so incredibly nice. All this made us feel very lucky!
Please read my full report of our 250KM biketrip on the forum which I promised to post there to my parents, sisters, friends and Lonneke too of course!
