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Meet the writing team in Mazerige
“I found it,” Simone Matouch looks
“Should we reuse the logo with
up from her screen, “wild green the tree spreading its seeds out of a
asparagus is very healthy and was also frame?” says Mónika Pakot, skipping
used over 2000 years for medicinal through the archive files on the table.
purposes. “I prefer this one instead of the symbolic
It contains vitamin K, which is crucial
8. Simone Matouch
9. Mónika Pakot
icon with round tables. Forum Synergies
for your body to stop bleeding after a is about travelling, not just sitting in dynamic. Our creative practices are
cut, as well as for your bone health. meetings, and seeds are travelling opening the frame of often narrow and
Greeks and Romans believed it could too.” Mónika lives in a small village in restrictive EU legislation which makes
heal a wide range of diseases, and Transylvania, Romania. Together with local people lose and forget their own
today much research is being done on Simone she has recently organised traditional knowledge and wisdom.”
it to strengthen disease resistance…” the second European Herb Gathering
Simone is our ‘herb witch’ as she
calls herself. She moved from Vienna
Read more on Mónika’s work with
with exciting projects from across traditional knowledge in Transylvania
Europe. “I believe our tree logo is more in chapter 6.
to Lesachtal, Austria, a small valley
of Hermagor District, in the state of
Carinthia. Together with Marina she
serves Forum Synergies as part-
time staff. She has a lot of hands-
on experience with medicinal and
aromatic plants and runs a small
business for natural cosmetics and
food supplements harvested and
processed in her own garden.
Read more about Lesachtal and
Simone’s experience with herbs in
chapter 10.
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