Green Easter - enjoy the holidays fairly, vegan and zero waste
Alongside Christmas, Easter is also a celebration of love and community. People give each other presents with little things and gifts, fill colourful Easter nests and hide them for the fun of searching.
Today we're showing you how to celebrate Easter in a sustainable and fair way - with natural decorations, no packaging waste and fair trade treats.
Making individual Easter decorations
Making beautiful Easter decorations is easy and environmentally friendly - all it takes is a little creativity. Turn paper rolls into funny Easter bunnies or figures. Instead of the usual paper grass, you can use natural Easter grass made from summer barley or cat grass. Cress also works wonderfully and can be snacked on afterwards. Fresh flowers conjure up spring on the table. The plants can be planted on the balcony, terrace or in the garden after Easter, and the bulbs can even be dried after they have finished flowering and saved for next year, such as hyacinths.
DIY paper eggs for the Easter bouquet
Cut out small paper eggs from discarded books. Sew or glue the individual eggs together. And then decorate them in an Easter bouquet.
Or make an Easter nest from an old T-shirt? All you need is an old T-shirt, fabric scissors, a crochet hook and a woollen needle. Cut off the bottom edge of the T-shirt and then cut strips about 1.5 cm wide (BUT don't cut them!). Then pull the strips a little longer and wind them into a ball. Now use a crochet hook to crochet the textile yarn in circular rounds to form a basket.
→ The baskets can be filled with small books from the book box, for example, or with smaller jars filled with delicious dried fruit, energy balls, biscuits, fruit leather and fruit gums.
Snacking with a clear conscience
Easter bunnies and chocolate bunnies belong in every Easter basket - and don't just make children's hearts beat faster. It's no wonder that millions of chocolate bunnies roll off the production line for the Easter period. But not all chocolate is the same! When shopping, it is essential to look out for organic and Fairtrade labels. Only these labels guarantee compliance with certain social, ecological and economic criteria in the cultivation and processing of cocoa. Packaging waste can also be minimised here: Unpackaged and selected organic markets offer their chocolate figures without annoying aluminium foil or in biodegradable outer packaging. Or you can make your own raw vegan chocolate.
Small gifts bring joy and protect the environment
Depending on the region and weather conditions, wild garlic starts to sprout from the forest floor in mid-March. As soon as the magnolias bloom and daffodils open, the juicy, garlic-smelling leaves also sprout from the forest floor. Wild garlic is best used as soon as it is collected. It tastes delicious in risotto, pasta and salad. Spicy pesto or vegan wild garlic butter make delicious Easter brunch gifts. However, the collection season is short-lived. As soon as the herb, also known as wild garlic, flowers, the leaves become inedible.
Or perhaps combine your Easter walk with a visit to a farm shop in the region? Local farm shops are not only an experience, but also a culinary treat with the best of the region and the season. And by the way, every purchase supports regional agriculture.
→ Second-hand little things such as toys, books or practical items for the balcony and garden also bring great joy. And if you want to do even more good for the environment, you can also simply give away sponsorships for bees, flowering meadows, nature reserves and wildlife centres.