Our host: Ecovillage Sieben Linden For the 3rd Future of Food meeting the FOF members went to Germany to visit ecovillage Sieben Linden. Situated about 200 km west of Berlin in a region that once was part of the former German Democratic Republic, a new village was built from scratch completely out of natural materials. […]
Spirulina Project Kenya Following our very interesting tour of the Chlorella business outside Sieben Linden and the Global v Local discussion we had during our German trip, Didi, a member of our Co-op here in Ireland kept coming into my mind. The Spirulina project which she has been involved in developing and managing in Kenya […]
On the thursday morning in Sieben Linden we had a talk and a walk on the topic of permaculture. After a general introduction by Monique, we visited the garden plots of Jörg and Julia and their community. Here we could see raised beds with a lot of vegetables and herbs growing together in synergy. They also […]
All around Sieben Linden beside the roads and tracks grow fruit trees of all sorts. For instance, apples at one lane, plums on the other and so on. It’s amazing sight for fruit lovers. This is a heritage of the GDR, the other, recently deceased, german state. Commonly, fruit trees where planted everywhere in rural areas and then […]
At our meeting in Sieben Linden we had a talk about vegan organic agriculture. Vegan organic agriculture by definition doesn’t (ab)use any animals or their so called by-products like manure, slurry, blood and bone meal etc. It seems to be a new unconventional technique but when you think about it it is longer around than […]
What is needed to grow healthy food ? World café during FoF stay in Spain autumn 2013. In one World Café we discussed in small groups the question ‘What is needed to grow healthy food?’. On a big paper we wrote down our thoughts and explained to each other what we ment. For example someone […]
On the 8th and 9th of March 2014 I was co-organiser of the third edition of the ‘Reclaim the seeds’ festival in the Netherlands. This was held at the beautifull Botanical Garden in Haren, Groningen. The first and second event, in 2012 in Amsterdam and 2013 in Den Bosch were allready very well visited, but the over […]
Seaweed Foraging – Spain April 2014 – from Eileen Toomey As part of my contribution to the Future of Food project. I committed to bring knowledge of seaweed foraging and the nutritional benefits of this superfood to the participants. I am very fortunate to live on the stunning West Coast of Ireland where seaweed […]
Wilde-7 is one example how with the internet everyone can spread information and find new ways of making a living with the individual resources at hand. For me it began with a book on a tv-broadcast on edible wild garden weeds, back in the late 1990s. First, it was just one of many interesting things […]
On our trip to Spain, we were taken out by micologist and forester Gionata Spazzi who here gives us an account of our findings… The day was blessed by the finest spring sunshine. After a slide show introduction on the secretive and surprising world of forest fungi at breakfast table we set off […]