Small permaculture farm - a place for reconnection 

Collectivity, migrations and food growing educator’s role

Permaculture in Commercial Agriculture via Concept 1-11

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(Eight)finity lessons on learning of growing food

Create your dream garden

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Ecosystemic intelligence and permaculture

Positive garden psychology for beginners

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Experiential learning cycles on farms

Composting in the city

Food Sovereignty

Mapping Permaculture in Europe

Women in farming

Global Ecovillage Network (GEN)

WWOOFing on organic farms

Farmhack and open source knowledge

Edible cities

Water in agriculture

Planetary boundaries

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Ecological footprint of food

Soil health and food system

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Vertical gardens

Foodsharing

Community Seed Banks

Graduate and postgraduate food system courses

Access to land

Community gardening

Food cooperatives

Work that reconnects

Worldwide Opportunities on Organic Farms (WWOOF)

Permaculture courses

Agroecology - social movement

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Newentrants to farming

Green books

Аналіз установок та Вісім нескінченних уроків про вирощування їжі

Learning objectives and questions of participants

Exploring past experience and knowledge

Workshop programme

Reflection rounds

Conceptualisation

Experience

Edible City Warsaw

Community Supported Agriculture

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Food System Change Congress

Ethical Consumerism

Slow Food 

Educator's Toolshed

School Gardens

Degrowth 

Minimizing food waste globally

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Food forests

Covid-19 pandemic and food-growing

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﻿More and more European educational institutions offer graduate and post-graduate courses focused on the socio-cultural and economic aspects of food production, distribution & consumption. \n\n\n

Category: Food Systems

POSTGRADUATE FOOD SYSTEM COURSES

The 2021 Food System Change Online Congress with 40 experts from 11 countries. Browse through the entire programme with additional materials including fact-sheets, food system map, publications on the online \nplatform\n. 

Climate-friendly and sustainable farming innovations.

FOOD SYSTEM CONGRESS 2021

Agriculture is by far the largest consumer of the Earth’s available freshwater: 70% of “blue water” withdrawals from watercourses and groundwater are for agricultural usage. By 2050, the global water demand of agriculture is estimated to increase by a further 19% due to irrigational needs. \n

Category: Earth Care

WATER IN AGRICULTURE

Comparing our footprint (natural resources we need and waste we create) and our biocapacity (what the Earth can provide), we can better understand how we fit our planet or not and how to transition to a sustainable development. \nCalculate\n your Ecological Footprint or \nwatch\n an animated explanation why it matters. 

ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT OF FOOD

The world grows 95% of its food in the uppermost layer of soil. The future of our food system depends on healthy topsoils soils and policies that support soil stewardship. 

SOIL HEALTH

Dry composting toilets are an efficient, cyclical way of dealing with human waste without using and/or fouling fresh water, which is in ever-dwindling supply on the planet. Dry composting toilets turn that “\nhumanure\n” into valuable fertiliser. \nRead further\n. 

COMPOST TOILET

When we are done eating an apple, we toss the core in a trash can and it is most likely brought to a landfill or burned in a trash incinerator. In the natural world, however, nothing is wasted. 

Category: Edible City

COMPOSTING IN CITIES

By 2030, 60% of the world's population will live in cities. Implementation of nature-based solutions has become vital to urban sustainable development. The concept of Edible City offers different forms of urban food production and green solutions. 

EDIBLE CITY

Four of nine planetary boundaries have now been crossed as a result of human activity: climate change, loss of biosphere integrity, land-system change, altered biogeochemical cycles (phosphorus and nitrogen). Two of these, climate change and biosphere integrity, are what the scientists call "core boundaries". 

PLANETARY BOUNDARIES

Food forests are the ultimate way of gardening vertically, as they are self-sustaining bio-diverse systems that, if we want them to provide larger harvests, only require a bit of pruning and the occasional tweak to invigorate or modify the eco-system to be more favourable for us. 

FOOD FORESTS

The web doumentary Edible City Warsaw contains examples of five models of activities within a single edible city, that complement each other to creat an emerging web of localized food system and food solidarity. To read further...

EDIBLE CITY WARSAW

Permaculture changes the way we look at space. For some of us, it opens up pathways to making the most of every inch we’re given. Vertical farmers can grow in 15 days what takes 30 days in a field. 

VERTICAL GARDENING

Food sovereignty is the right of peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods, and their right to define their own food and agriculture systems. 

Category: Food Solidarity

FOOD SOVEREIGNTY

Farmers. Workers. Entrepreneurs. Care-givers. Bread-winners. Bread-makers. Mothers. Wives. Daughters. Research shows that since about 10,000 B.C., women have played a part in how we source and harvest our food. 

WOMEN IN FARMING

Foodsharing is a volunteer-led grassroots movement focused on education and action to stop food-waste. The concept was born in 2012 in Germany and has already taken root in many European cities. 

FOODSHARING

Community Supported Organisation) is a community-based organisation of growers and consumers. The consumer households live independently, but agree to provide direct, up- front support for the local growers who produce their food. 

COMMUNITY SUPPORTED AGRICULTURE

FARMHACK is an open source farm innovation platform, welcoming anyone who is willing to support creating sustainable, affordable and replicable solutions in farming. 

FARMHACK 

Community seedbanks in many countries around the world, notably the global south, have been instrumental in regaining, maintaining and increasing the control of farmers and local communities over seeds. \nRead further. LINK

COMMUNITY SEED BANKS

20% - a fifth - of all the food that is produced in Europe becomes waste, equating to 88 million tonnes of food being lost on a yearly basis. Households produce the largest share of food waste (around 40%), followed by agriculture / food processing (40%).

MINIMISE FOOD WASTE

We all know that our food comes from the land, yet very few are aware that land is a finite resource. Did you know it takes 2000 years to generate 10 cm of top soil? 

ACCESS TO LAND

Through an extensive network of contacts, access & flow of information as well as cooperation, individual initiatives can transform over time into active movements working in the field of permaculture. 

Category: Growing Community

MAPPING PERMACULTURE

An ecovillage is an intentional, traditional or urban community that is consciously designed through locally owned, participatory processes in four areas of regeneration (social, culture, ecology and economy). 

GLOBAL ECOVILLAGE NETWORK

Community gardens are gardens which are collectively run by a group of people (usually not with a professional background in gardening) and are often located in city centres using fallow areas. 

COMMUNITY GARDENING

Food co-ops, food buying groups, food clubs and food groups are terms that are used interchangeably to describe a food outlet that is run on a not-for-profit basis to give people access to good food at affordable prices. 

Category: Growing Community 

FOOD COOPERATIVES

Work That Reconnects creates methodology for transition from the current society focused on industrial growth to a life sustaining society. It provides a number of tools for personal transformation, empowerment and creation of active change. 

WORK THAT RECONNECTS

Dragon Dreaming is a playful, inspiring, encouraging and meaningful method for assisting individuals and groups who seek to make their dreams come true. It is based on the commitment to one's own healing and empowerment, strengthening communities and service to the Earth. Read further \nhere\n or watch an inspiring vision in a film \nINHABIT\n.

DRAGON DREAMING

Worldwide Opportunities on Organic Farms is a volunteer-led movement bringing together people interested in organic farming (WWOOFers) and organic host farmers covering 130 countries on all 7 continents. 

Category: Learn Food Growing

WOOFing!

Agroecology is a practice, science and a social movement with a democratic farmer-to-farmer learning practices rooted in human rights and food sovereignty. Agroecology is primarily based on traditional and local knowledge and applies ecological principles to farm and territorial interactions. 

AGROECOLOGY - SOCIAL MOVEMENT

The question of who is going to be the next generation of European farmers is a very pressing one. Who will grow our food? Who will sustain rural economies and communities?\n 

NEWENTRANTS TO FARMING

Educators' Toolshed emerged as a result of the International Forum of Permaculture Educators, that gathered young generation of food-growing and edible-city teachers from Europe. The tools include strategies for community learning within three themes: Community-Sensitivity-Imagination.

EDUCATORS' TOOLSHED

Green Books are issued by independent publishing houses that share sustainable approach to business through maintenance of its small-scale, fair employment & treatment of staff. 

GREEN BOOKS

Permaculture can be learned & practiced everywhere and by everyone. It's open to newcomers with different backgrounds who look for alternative ways of living in harmony with their surroundings, food-growing and more sustainable livelihoods. 

PERMACULTURE COURSES

COVID-19 pandemic has affected many areas of life around the world. Public interest in growing fruit and vegetables at home has soared. Seed sale in some organic companies skyrocketed by 300-500% and allotment waiting lists have been swelling. Fear of food shortages and chance to relieve stress spending time in nature seem to be a great driving force behind growing own food as well as creating & joining local food initiatives. 

FOOD GROWING DURING COVID-19

Learning objectives and questions of participants 

Eliciting participants expectations

Fostering participants abilities

Visualising expertise of everyone

Using objects to elicit prior knowledge

Workshop concept - experiential learning cycle

Learning framework

Make learning progress visible

Understand cycles: water, plants, energy

Applying concepts to own garden plot

Collect new questions

On-farm practice

Planting and implementing in own garden plots

Ethical consumerism is form of political activism based on the premise that purchasers are not only responsible for the goods they’re consuming but for the whole process required to produce them. 

Category: Grow Community

ETHICAL CONSUMERISM

Slow Food is a global, grassroots organisation, founded in 1989 to prevent the disappearance of local food cultures and traditions, counteract the rise of fast life and combat people’s dwindling interest in the food they eat, where it comes from and how our food choices affect the world around us.

SLOW FOOD

School gardens are a way to use the schoolyard as a classroom, reconnect students with the natural world and the true source of their food by teaching them valuable gardening and agriculture concepts and skills. 

SCHOOL GARDENS

Degrowth is an idea that critiques the global capitalist system which pursues growth at all costs, causing human exploitation and environmental destruction. The degrowth movement of activists and researchers advocates for societies that prioritise social and ecological well-being instead of corporate profits, over-production and excess consumption.

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