permaculture poster
Permaculture poster
Permaculture poster
In Ireland we learned about edible seaweeds and foraged them to prepare dishes. Click here to see and download the poster of edible seaweeds: Seaweed poster Click here to see and download the backside of the poster with recipes: Seaweed poster recipes:
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. […]
The Future of Food participants met in Sieben Linden on August 18th to 21st 2014. MONDAY After a kind welcome with hosts Julia and Joerg on Sunday evening, the group met for the programme on Monday morning, bright eyed and bushy-tailed for a tour of Sieben Linden. The participants were interested in the history and […]
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 […]
This article is a continuation of Planning for Head, Heart & Hands where I shared some notes on how we (FoF partnership) use different methodologies and frameworks to suit different learning interests and styles. On our website intro you might have read the following text: What is the future of food? is exactly what we […]
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 […]
In Sieben Linden we visited the other cooperative I’m involved with, Raw Living Germany. Raw Living has long been established in England for more than 13 years now. The manager of it, Chris Wood, is a friend and for quite some time he has been looking for someone to build up Raw Living Germany, for […]
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 […]