Green Care International. SoFar ist eine Abkürzung für ‚Social Farming’.
Dieser Begriff ist im deutschsprachigen Raum als Sozialer Landbau oder Soziale Landwirtschaft bekannt. Darunter werden jegliche sozial integrativen multifunktionalen Leistungen auf landwirtschaftlichen Betrieben und Gartenbaubetrieben zusammengefasst, egal, ob sie mit Pflanzen, Tieren, oder anderen natürlichen Elementen arbeiten. Im Unterschied zu ‚Care Farming’ werden hier zusätzlich zu therapeutischen Aktivitäten auch jene Leistungen inkludiert, die keinen therapeutischen Zweck verfolgen, sondern geförderte oder geschützte Arbeitsplätze, oder pädagogische und ausbildende Programme zum Thema haben. SoFar war ein länderübergreifendes Projekt, das die Verbreitung und Entwicklung von Sozialer Landwirtschaft in Europa unterstützen sollte.
Der vollständige Titel des Projekts lautete ‚Social Services in Multifunctional Farms’‚ übersetzt also ‚Soziale Landwirtschaft - soziale Leistungen multifunktionaler Höfe’. Social agriculture: how our relationship with the earth can bear fruit. AiCARE. Farms with a Future by Rebecca Thistlethwaite. "Farms with a Future should be handed out to every budding young farmer in America.
Thistlethwaite guides us through the daunting process of creating a viable small farm by sharing hard-earned lessons of her own, and from experienced farmers she met while researching this book. Indispensable! "—Novella Carpenter, author of Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer As communities seek greater resiliency in the wake of economic upheaval, job loss, climate change and global food shortages, local farmers are seen as a key resource to help reinvigorate, or create, a diversified, regionalized, ecologically-based food system. Farms with a Future explores the passion, creativity, and entrepreneurship that’s needed to help family farms find their niche and remain sustainable and successful in an age of agribusiness and consolidation.
What is a farm with a future? An experienced farmer herself, Thistlethwaite does not idealize or romanticize her subject in Farms with a Future. About the Author. Sustainable urban farming ideas that think inside the box. Photo via .hello foto of FlickrIn my last Green State column, I wrote about Agriculture 2.0.
The conference, held in Silicon Valley recently, brought together venture capitalists and sustainable ag startups in an effort to jump start a market for the regional distribution of fresh food. This week I take a closer look at some of the companies that tried to catch the ear and checkbooks of the high-profile investors who packed that confab at the Four Seasons in Palo Alto. One of the more intriguing ideas came from startups thinking outside the agribusiness box by developing urban farms in a box. Literally. Take AeroFarms. “This puts buildings back into play with a technology that would do something productive and employ people,” Ed Harwood, AeroFarms’ founder and chief executive, told prospective investors at the conference. Starting an Organic Vegetable Garden - Sustainable Kitchen Proje. So to truly have a sustainable kitchen as part of my Sustainable Kitchen Project, I really need to be, like, producing some of my own food or something.
I so love the idea of growing my own vegetables, fruit and herbs. There’s just one problem. I have the world’s blackest black thumb. So for me, starting an organic vegetable garden is a bit like my own version of the Odyssey. But I am pretty determined. Also, over the years, the blackness of my thumb seems to be getting slightly less overbearing. I keep trying. A big part of the problem is that planting and growing things requires a couple traits I just don’t have. Well, I’m more a wing it, figure it out, and eyeball it type of person. Cucumber production in green house eBook Downloads.
Egg Cartons-Randallburkey.com. Index. The red jungle fowl is said to be the original "chicken" from which all domestic chickens are descended based on comments and observations made by Darwin.
In Febuary 2001, I read an article on the conservation and genetic integrity of the red jungle fowl by Dr. I. Lehr Brisbin, Jr in Barry Koffler's www.feathersite.comin which he expressed the fear that the pure red jungle fowl may be extinct in the wild. In the article Dr. Brisbin described specimens descended from a flock captured by Dr. To my surprise I found the morphological description matches a pair of jungle fowl in my farm which I hatched from a clutch of 5 eggs found in the forest reserve adjacent to my farm. Dr. Well meaning conservationists may be contributing to the bird's genetic extinction by releasing into the jungles cross-bred birds. Red Jungle Fowl. Red Jungle Fowl Chicken Breed Information and Chicken Facts Red Jungle Fowl Chicken Breed Information: Jungle birds are the "original bird" from which all varieties and strains of domesticated chickens arrived based on comments and observations made by Darwin.
This type of chicken/fowl is smaller than most common sizes of chickens yet a little bigger than the modern day bantams that are being bred. These birds have one of your best chances of free ranging fowl and avoiding predators. Cackle Hatchery’s bloodline/strain was acquired from some descendants of Red Jungle in the San Diego Zoo in California. Chicken Facts: Poultry Show Class: Oriental Weights - Hen -------3 lbs Rooster----4 1/2 lb Pullet------2 1/2 lbs Cockerel---4 lbs Purpose - Egg Production Egg Shell Color - Tinted Egg Production - Prolific, 250-300 eggs per year Country of Origin -Asia APA: No ALBC: Not Listed.