Welcome to …
PassiFlora
- an online magazine about eco-friendly living, environment, vegetarian cooking, and green arts and crafts.
- a virtual green oasis where you can share your knowledge, explore your creative side, and find fresh new ideas on the topics of cooking, crafting, and recycling.
- a unique online magazine made for you and by you.
Yes, you, our wonderful readers are the main content-contributors for this magazine. We are anxious to hear from you, read your articles, taste you recipes, and incorporate your ideas into every new issue. If you are interested in submitting material, please follow the steps described in our guidelines or you can leave a comment to this editor’s letter with your ideas.
The first issue of PassiFlora is almost fully devoted to the upcoming holidays. Here is a snapshot of the different categories and content:
Articles
Read about ideas for vegetarian and vegan potluck dinner, green gift-wrapping, as well as ways to spend your free time during the holidays and share your joy with the loved ones. The column “Vegetables of the month” will help you make sense of your root vegetables and provide you with all the useful information about parsnips and turnips.
Recipes
PassiFlora focuses on vegetarian and vegan food. The first issue features a collection of our favorite seasonal Recipes. Check out our soups, salads, side dishes, and desserts.
Fresh
Fresh section of the magazine is all about useful tips and tricks. We are starting a collection of illustrated kitchen tips. We also share tricks on eco-friendly Christmas decorations. Finally this section features a column on ingenious use of every-day objects. Look how you can use a simple apple as part of your holiday decor.
Craft
The Craft section of the first issue features instructions for the seasonal origami models as well as the links to the origami websites. It also provides you with the patterns and instructions to different projects mentioned throughout other sections.
And you too can contribute and participate!
Even if you are not ready to submit the whole article we would like to get to know you. Every month, PassiFlora features a new Question of the month. This is our way to share some personal stories with you and to get to hear yours. A selection of your letters will be published each month on our website. Please check out my story on the most memorable Christmas of my life.
If you want to know more about PassiFlora, please read the About page as well as the FAQs and Thank you sections. You can also subscribe to the magazine by leaving a comment with your name and email address. All the comments will be kept invisible. We also encourage you to drop by to read about updates we make.
I am very excited about PassiFlora magazine and hope you are enjoying it as much as I do.
Anya Sokolovskaya
Update (April 2009): the comments to this entry are disabled (too much spam).
November 26th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
What an awesome idea! looks like a great place for all things green. You’re definitely off to a good start!
November 26th, 2008 at 6:10 pm
Thank you! I am happy to know that people are enjoying it as much as I do. Stay tuned - there are a lot of interesting things coming up.
November 26th, 2008 at 11:22 pm
Awesome! You go missing for a few weeks and come up with a magazine! So, are you the editor?
November 27th, 2008 at 7:02 pm
I haven’t read anything but the first page but already I’m excited to know about this and ‘can’t wait to check out all the first issue has to offer! Congratulations on your launch!
November 28th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
Thanks, Dasha. Well it has been more than 2 weeks but I think you summarized my style
November 28th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
Thank you, Marie. The issue turned out to be pretty big (lots and lots of content) so I hope to see you coming back.
And don’t forget the updates….