Earth Garden 2016

The 10th edition of Earth Garden was held last month, 3-5 June 2016, and it was exceptionally awesome! Super nice weather, excellent location, happy vibes, beautiful people and amazing music!

As usual, we set up our little marque, put up a stall and started Dreadlocking!

Surprise Surprise! We made it on the national newspaper with this huge image :) of Nakul and Joshua jammin' at the stall and our friend Sandy looking on... I was actually next to Sandy but they decided to crop me out!

Our colourful stall featured our recent handmade pallet art, the most popular hemp rucksacks, our handmade feather hair clips, bohemian and rasta jewellery, ethnic clothing, and our spiritual corner with singing bowls and hindu and buddhist statues - all from our shop Bohemia.

These two were the stars of the show!

Pay It Forward - Nepal

This is a group picture of 32 children from a poor village in Chitwan, Nepal. Each of them just received new school stationery including books, copybooks, pencils, erasers, a woolen hat and some biscuits.

This was a project entitled 'Pay-It-Forward Nepal', and it was done in collaboration with Bohemia, our dreadlock salon.

The term ‘Pay It Forward’ is an expression for describing the beneficiary of a good deed of repaying proceeds to others instead of the original benefactor.

This project took place from May to October 2015. Through this initiative, customers and friends were encouraged to donate pieces of jewelry that they do not want anymore, and were put up for sale to other customers. People who were interested in buying this second hand jewelry were free to place their own price from €1 to €5.

“Luckily my family and friends were not affected by the earthquake, but friends of friends were. As it is my country, I felt I need to do something to help”, said Nakul Gautam, the owner of Bohemia.

To buttress his point, he said, “In 5 months we collected 70 euros, which we topped up to 100. Perhaps in Malta it might not seem to be a large sum, but in Nepal it becomes a meaningful sum in a poor jungle village. The money was used to buy new school books, erasers, pencils, biscuits and woolen hats for 32 children in a small jungle village of Chitwan, 5 hours trek from Shaktikhor.