
In April 2023, together with my husband and partner, Marek Styczynski, I established the Biotope Lechnica Foundation, aimed at building an environment for restoration and regeneration of human and nonhuman beings. Our main idea is to implement permacultural thinking across various domains, practices and activities, not limited to farming or working with land.
One of our first projects (just as the Foundation was being set up) was a collaboration with JuraSto, a group of activists from Zabierzów county (bordering with Kraków) to design and implement a composting scheme for Farma Życia. It is an intentional community and center for adults with various autism spectrum disorders. The project quickly transformed into a volunteer-based gardening project, with an event organised to set up a sustainable, permaculture garden right by the premises of the center. On April 15th 2023, more than 100 volunteers showed up, helping in building, enriching the soil and planting. A picnic with snacks was a treat, generously provided by Bistro Tymiankowo, a cooperative established at the Babiński Clinical Psychiatric Hospital and employing the patients of the hospital.
The garden has been designed by Marek Styczynski and carried out with a help from a group of activists and professionals, including specialist from University of Agriculture in Kraków.









Most of my activity as a permaculturalist is documented at a separate website of Biotope Lechnica which, however, rarely gets updated since the pandemic broke in early 2020. We try to be more regular with our Facebook profile, although mostly in Polish. However, photographs documenting our work are quite self-explaining.