We are now back in Sweden and finally, the blog is up and running! We hope you will enjoy reading it and continue following our project. If you have any thoughts about the project, please give us feedback!
Since we came back to Sweden we have done a lot of things! We started by going to the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences that held a workshop about urban farming. There we worked together with other students trying to understand what a permaculture guild is and how it can be put together. We designed such a guild out of what kind of plants we needed for a special dish. It all ended in a design and a very quick building on parts of it. What our group made was called a 'soil saussage' and was basically soil wrapped in cloth and the hung from the ceiling. This can be a way of farming when you don't have enough space for farmland on the ground!
A sketch of our guild design. [Photo: Helena Sandberg]
Making the 'soil saussage'. [Photo: Helena Sandberg]
Hanging it up. [Photo: Helena Sandberg]
Last week we researched permaculture a bit more by watching the old TV-series The global gardener with the founder of permaculture, Bill Mollisson. There we learned about many good design solutions! We also studied some litterature and had a litterature seminar yesterday. The litterature was about permaculture, outdoor education, pedagogics and urban farming.
But most of all we have been working on what we call the toolbox. It contains a lot of ideas for how to create a better school environment - tools. The aim is that it will be able to work as inspiration for schools in East Africa that want to work with farming and sustainable development of their school! As it looks now it has 6 main parts or sections - farming, water management, waste management, pedagogical opportunities, health & hygiene and meetingplaces. By next week we hope to be able to publish some of it for you to see and give feedback on! If there is something you think should be in such a toolbox already now, please write to us! The email adress is on the right.
Brainstorming for the toolbox. [Photo: Frida Skarp]
Working on the toolbox. [Photo: Frida Skarp]
This week we will continue to work on the toolbox, search for good places to visit in Sweden (schools that farm, organisations intrested in urban farming and so on) and if we are lucky, some of us will be able to attend a course in ecological farming!
All the best,
Helena, Joel, Frida, Sofia and Sarah
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