The IFOAM Growing Organic internship is nearly over here in Bonn and I am just now starting to clean up from my nine months of work. These nine months I've written and published several articles in Ecology and farming, made a website, sent thousands of emails, proofread countless documents and attended agricultural conferences around the world. The wrap up includes writing more emails, writing guidelines for the next person to take over my work and general clean up and organization of posts, wikis, and networking. This makes for long days and and necessitates ample espresso consumption. Thank you Rapunzel for supplying the office with fair-trade, organic and tasty espresso grounds.Next stop is Amdermatt, Switzerland where I hope to spend time learning from the Mountains again. Too much time as an 'office environmentalist' has left me a skinny, weak and pale landlubber.
