Bekandze Farm School – growing healing with local partners
Now that I am stepping back from academia, I’d like to tell you more about a new initiative I am co-creating. You probably know that I consider modern societies to be unravelling & won’t recover. There are many ways to respond. In my case, I am working with colleagues to grow a collapse-ready regenerative farm in Indonesia.
Our crowdfund is live! Visit: https://chuffed.org/project/bekandze
The following text is from August 2023, announcing the launch of the project.
Beginning in February 2023, our farming project is proceeding at pace, having confirmed the land lease, farm infrastructure, family involvement, staff profit sharing, organic NGO partnership, and local temple involvement. But we aren’t doing this project just to enjoy a little bit of farming. Our plan is to work with our local NGO partner to support small holders in the area around Tampaksiring (Bali) to convert to, or take up, collapse-ready regenerative farming. Our local partner is achieving this around Kedisan, a neighbouring town, with 30 families switching production methods so that they regenerate soils and biodiversity, reduce toxicity and capture carbon. Together, our new initiative will provide the basis for a collapse-ready regenerative business network that will enable the re-localisation of a range of production.
Continue reading “Regenerative Farming – it’s time!”
You must be logged in to post a comment.