https://humus.sergiuszrozycki.com/en/ A magazine about soil, water and time en-GB https://humus.sergiuszrozycki.com/en/blog/the-forest-that-remembers/ https://humus.sergiuszrozycki.com/en/blog/the-forest-that-remembers/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMT Essay Ida Wrzos Every tree keeps a chronicle of droughts, frosts, fires and good years. You only have to learn to read it, layer by layer. https://humus.sergiuszrozycki.com/en/blog/conversations-with-a-peat-bog/ https://humus.sergiuszrozycki.com/en/blog/conversations-with-a-peat-bog/ Fri, 25 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMT Podcast Ida Wrzos Episode 12. We stand ankle-deep in water at five in the morning, listening to moss that has been growing here for millennia. https://humus.sergiuszrozycki.com/en/blog/an-atlas-of-salt/ https://humus.sergiuszrozycki.com/en/blog/an-atlas-of-salt/ Fri, 18 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMT Photo essay Tomasz Bór From Ethiopia’s Danakil Depression to the graduation towers of Ciechocinek. A photo essay about the mineral that built empires and now sits in every salt shaker. https://humus.sergiuszrozycki.com/en/blog/a-hive-in-a-pine-trunk/ https://humus.sergiuszrozycki.com/en/blog/a-hive-in-a-pine-trunk/ Fri, 11 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMT Feature Marek Olcha Tree beekeeping, keeping bees in hollows of living trees, all but vanished from Polish forests. A dozen people are trying to bring it back. https://humus.sergiuszrozycki.com/en/blog/the-oxbow/ https://humus.sergiuszrozycki.com/en/blog/the-oxbow/ Fri, 04 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMT Film Tomasz Bór A short film about a river that changed its mind, and the people who, after fifty years, let it go back where it wanted to flow. https://humus.sergiuszrozycki.com/en/blog/thirteen-ways-of-looking-at-moss/ https://humus.sergiuszrozycki.com/en/blog/thirteen-ways-of-looking-at-moss/ Fri, 28 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMT Poem Hanna Sitowie A sequence of poems about a plant with no roots, no flowers and no hurry. https://humus.sergiuszrozycki.com/en/blog/dark-sky/ https://humus.sergiuszrozycki.com/en/blog/dark-sky/ Fri, 21 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMT Essay Ida Wrzos Most people in Europe have never seen the Milky Way. Not because it has gone, but because we have lit it away. https://humus.sergiuszrozycki.com/en/blog/seeds-in-the-freezer/ https://humus.sergiuszrozycki.com/en/blog/seeds-in-the-freezer/ Fri, 14 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMT Essay Hanna Sitowie Inside a mountain on Svalbard lie more than a million seed samples. It isn’t a vault for the end of the world, but a backup for its ordinary days. https://humus.sergiuszrozycki.com/en/blog/listening-to-ice/ https://humus.sergiuszrozycki.com/en/blog/listening-to-ice/ Fri, 07 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMT Podcast Ida Wrzos Episode 13. On ice that sings, on priests who have recorded a lake freezing for six hundred years, and on the thaw. https://humus.sergiuszrozycki.com/en/blog/a-phenological-calendar/ https://humus.sergiuszrozycki.com/en/blog/a-phenological-calendar/ Fri, 31 Jul 2026 08:00:00 GMT Practice Hanna Sitowie A simple practice for the whole year: note when the first blackthorn blooms, when the swallows arrive and when the first frost falls.