Fiona's student life
Read the weekly column of Fiona, Master student Landscape Architecture and Planning at Wageningen University.
Anyone from the tropics will be feeling totally at home here due to a week of weird, monsoon-like rain which triggered debates on the impact of future climate change (that’s what you get with a town full of climatology, biology, water, development and agriculture students!). On Saturday I hosted a meeting with a local sustainability group and some students interested in permaculture (my thesis topic). Between rainstorms I showed them my experimental plot for ecologically-inspired weed-suppressing and soil-building techniques. Plus, the tiny ‘instant’ pond (inoculated with water from the campus lakes), made to thank Nigel/Nigella the frog, who turned-up and cured our slug problem. Happily, he/she abandoned the high-rise, beer-crate apartment under the tomato planter, and moved-in immediately.