In his new series ‘The Land of Volunteering’, author Robert Schneider highlights people who are committed to helping others. This time he met Isabella Moosbrugger, who focuses on gardening and resource conservation.
It is quiet in the fire station in Bezau. In the representative, modern building, a handful of women from the “Gartenfreunde Reuthe-Bezau” have gathered in a large room, which does not exactly exude comfort with exposed concrete walls, to make Advent wreaths for the Christmas market. There is also a little girl with us. She concentrates on weaving twigs into the small wreath. It is her very first Advent wreath, which she made herself. She is very serious about the matter. When I praise her work, she feels quite disturbed by me. In the high and wide room are piles of different pine branches, which the women, when they pull out a branch, look twice and turn to see if it is beautiful enough. ‘Toß’ is the word for undergrowth, says Isabella Moosbrugger, whom I met here for an interview. “Here in the Rhine Valley we say Kreas,” I answer. The small, older lady looks at me for a moment with her alert eyes darting back and forth. “I think you’re crazy,” I add jokingly. That seems to break the ice. The women laugh heartily, and we all use our first names.
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