SEEDS - Volunteering for Iceland

SEEDS 080. Botanical Gardens in Reykjavík

24.08.2020

These days our current camp participants were remarkably busy wrestling through the jungle of overgrowing weeds and help transforming it into a proper garden by cutting, weeding and maintaining the beauty of the Icelandic flora. They definitely deserved some time off with our excursions...

SEEDS 075. Botanical Gardens in Reykjavík

04.08.2020

Our volunteers at the Botanical Garden had an opportunity to have a guided tour and learn about the various plants growing there. Did you know that in some seeds may take 10 years or more to sprout after planting? The weather was nice for weeding and enjoying the blooming flowers all around. We...

SEEDS 068. Summer Photography in Reykjavík

27.07.2020

Beside great travel opportunities, summer in Iceland provides unique motives waiting to get captured with the camera. The participants from our photography camp demonstrate their skills by catching the Icelandic summer glow in Reykjavík and thundering waterfalls at the South Shore and its...

SEEDS 062. Forestry & hiking trails in the West

23.07.2020

Forests in Iceland might be a rarity, but our SEEDS volunteers from our camp SEEDS 062. Forestry & hiking trails in the West have worked hard to expand and increase the forests. They stayed in a nice cabin along with a "hot pot" of course, where they could relax and revitalise after...

SEEDS 055. Hitting the Slopes - Blue Mountains & Skálafell

16.07.2020

Our volunteers in the Blue Mountains are busy clearing the slopes and painting the buildings in work time, next to hiking and exploring the nearby volcanic cave in their free time, making for an interesting and diverse experience! We have participants from all over Europe (Germany, France, Switzerland,...

SEEDS 043. Between Glaciers & Lava

26.06.2020

We are happy to introduce our new long term volunteers to our pilot camp in the beautiful west part of Iceland where they will learn from our more experienced camp leaders how to do the job hands-on. The camp gives them insights into a diversity of activities from building a path with lava rocks...

SEEDS 010. Photography & Environmentally Aware in Reykjavik

16.03.2020

Our camp SEEDS 010. Photography & Environmentally Aware in Reykjavik has ended last week. We gathered from France, Korea, Japan, Canada, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Italy, Hungary and Mexico to learn more about environmental issues and photography in idyllic Icelandic conditions. Our...

SEEDS 004. Photography & Environment - Dark Music Days

04.02.2020

Tatadada tadadada tadadada batmaaaaan.....We met here during all kinds of weather, live together in snowstorms, rain, freezing and snowing conditions and everything was worth for it because we saw beautiful large Aurora. We had fun and learned more about photography and environmental issues....

SEEDS 001. Photography, Environment & Northern Lights

20.01.2020

The first SEEDS Camp of the new year started on January 8, 2020 with a small group of participants in Reykjavik. During our 10 days together we explored the city, went to the pool, which is an important part of the icelandic culture, learned about whales in the whale museum and we even got to...

SEEDS 101. Photography & Environment during New Years - Eskihlid

10.01.2020

Is there a better place to spend New Year's than in Reykjavík?! Participants of SEEDS 101 had a chance to not only experience the indescribable amount of fireworks here (and shortly discuss their impacts on environment) but also learn about photography and explore Iceland's nature in...