Friends of the Earth Helsinki and Dodo organize a webinar on fostering biodiversity in courtyards and gardens. The Easy Meadow is a very simple concept: just leave a patch of lawn unmowed until late summer, and watch the previously suppressed flowering plants blossom! This will provide food and shelter for pollinators (among others), bring a pleasant new perspective to your everyday surroundings and decrease maintenance costs. And while there's been plenty of advice for people who own their gardens, our focus is on how tenants can do this in their courtyards, which is often overlooked in the garden meadow discussion.
After an introduction to the Easy Meadows project we will hear a presentation by Beñat Olascoaga, a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki who's specialized in the ecology of lawns and meadows. Beñat will tell us about what science has to say about turning lawns into meadows – whether Easy Meadows or conventional ones.
The webinar will be in English (asking questions in Finnish is OK!) and take place on Friday the 31st of May at 5 P.M. on Jitsi. In case you want to join the event in person, you're welcome to Ulrika, too (see directions below). To get the Jitsi link, please sign up by e-mail before the event begins: helsinki [at] maanystavat.fi
For more information, check out our newly translated website at iisiniitty.fi/en/easy-meadow/ or ask us by e-mail at: iisiniitty [at] maanystavat.fi
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Ulrika is a shared space for student associations located in the building Domus Gaudium (Leppäsuonkatu 11) in Etu-Töölö. The entrance to the building is on a small square on Leppäsuonkatu. Next to the door there are bike racks and a doorbell with the label "Ulrika" – ring the doorbell and wait for someone to come and let you in. Ulrika can be accessed without using stairs (there's an elevator in the building), but within the space there are some low thresholds.