The Wild Strawberry (Fragaria vesca) starts blooming as early as late March, allowing us to enjoy its small, fragrant, and sweet fruits by early May. These strawberries primarily thrive in deciduous forests, flowering under the sunlight before the new foliage forms a green canopy to shade the ground and prevent […]
Maria Beatrice Lupi
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We are quickly approaching the beautiful season and the awakening of nature: plants will soon be covered in flowers, and bees will return to visit them. However, their numbers are dwindling. Why is this happening? With our young readers, we will discover the reasons alongside little Bee Valentina. The bees […]
In fairy tales, the princess often kisses the toad who turns into a handsome prince and… “they lived happily ever after”. In reality, toads and in general all amphibians (frogs, toads and newts), do not turn into princes, but in their two lives, (the term amphibian means exactly this: “with […]
«First flourished the golden age, which without avengers/or laws, spontaneously honoured loyalty and rectitude. […] Free, untouched by the rake, unfurled/by the plow, the earth produced everything by itself/and men, satisfied with the foods born spontaneously,/gathered strawberry trees, mountain strawberries, cornelian cherries, blackberries hidden among the thorns of the brambles/and […]
The strawberry grows underneath the nettleAnd wholesome berries thrive and ripen bestNeighbour’d by fruit of baser quality (William Shakespeare, Henry V) Once winter has passed, when the forest awakens and spring is in full force, you come across open areas of woods, undergrowth, meadows, and clearings, an expanse of small […]