Chapter 6 · Helping

Would you like to help?

A hedgehog station depends on people who care and lend a hand. Here are two ways to help – every one counts.

Donate once

from €5
one-off, any amount
  • Food & medicine for a hedgehog
  • Direct help during the season
Donate now

Help out

Your time
welcome at any time, no minimum commitment
Write to us!
Family, friends & local youth groups

Our community in action.

What you see here is the work of many hands. It all started as a do-it-yourself project – with family, friends, pupils and local clubs. They laid out herb beds, stacked stone pyramids, built the pergola and planted shrubs. Without them, the trail would not be what it is today.

All photos on our Facebook page SOS Igel in Not Lehr- und Lernpfad Drautal · open photo album
Four young people and a helper planting the newly built, triple-coiled herb spiral together on the lawn in front of the school building
Herb spiral

Hands in the soil

The first plants go into the spiral.

Helpers kneeling around the herb spiral, setting young herb plants into the fresh soil between the rows of stones
Herbs

Planting under way

The finished herb spiral made of light-coloured stones with freshly planted beds, surrounded by dark soil and lawn
Done!

The spiral is complete

Six helpers giving a thumbs-up behind the finished stone pyramid of large river stones beneath a spruce tree
Stone pyramid

Thumbs up!

Hundreds of stones stacked – a warm island for reptiles.

A laughing helper giving a thumbs-up next to the newly built pile of large edging stones and gravel in the garden
Stone by stone

Stacking up

The finished pavilion of light grey decorative metal lattice with a domed roof on the lawn, with a stone slab as its floor
Pergola

A meeting point is built

Two kneeling helpers laying a concrete slab as a foundation in the dug-out soil and levelling it with a yellow spirit level
Foundation

Solid groundwork

Two helpers in gardening gloves planting a young native shrub in a freshly dug hole next to a dead-wood hedge
Planting day

Native shrubs

Four young people with logs and a wicker basket standing next to the finished wooden insect hotel, filled with round logs and pine cones
Insect hotel

Homes for wild bees

A helper and two children stacking branches into the wooden frame of a dead-hedge (Benjes hedge), with the mountains of the Drau valley in the background

Young & committed

Three helpers sitting and laughing on the lawn in front of the building after a job well done, with the newly created garden features and the mountains in the background
Well earned

A break & a laugh

Two helpers on an old green tractor with a trailer full of wood, transporting materials to the nature trail
Logistics

Moving materials

11 stations built
30+ helpers from the region
countless hours

A huge thank you

To family and friends, the Zechgemeinschaft Feistritz an der Drau, the Jugendgruppe Ebenwald/Rubland, the Zechgemeinschaft Stockenboi and the Landjugend Kreuzen – you turned a do-it-yourself effort into a community project. Would you like to join in too?

Help out – write to us! Photo album on Facebook