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The two most inspiring things I´ve learnt during this amazing field trip was the idea of reusing landfills to make energy of the | The two most inspiring things I´ve learnt during this amazing field trip was the idea of reusing landfills to make energy of the gas that they produce and involving students in agriculture. I´d like to speak about the second one. | ||
Baukhof farm we visited on the third day was an amazing place that engages whole community | The Baukhof farm we visited on the third day was an amazing place that engages the whole community in its system of production. They are open to the help of local people and every year they welcome students from allied schools to spend two weeks on the farm and work with the soil and animals. | ||
I feel that today´s youth in Czech republic slowly | I feel that today´s youth in the Czech republic are slowly losing their connection to agriculture. Young people have no experience with farming, they don´t know where meat and milk comes from and they do not care about the quality of food and welfare of animals. | ||
There used to be obligatory part-time jobs in agriculture during the communism | There used to be obligatory part-time jobs in agriculture during the communism era when students, children and even adults had to help with harvesting or collecting leef beetles. Many of them hated this obligatory work but there´s no doubt that they at least got an experience of hard work and the agricultural system. | ||
That´s why I think that we should try to involve Czech students in the process of producing food and encourage schools to start similar projects to the one they have in Baukhof. If young people get to know biodynamic agriculture as well as | That´s why I think that we should try to involve Czech students in the process of producing food and encourage schools to start similar projects to the one they have in Baukhof. If young people get to know biodynamic agriculture as well as | ||
wildlife, they will probably make efforts to lead more sustainable life. And | wildlife, they will probably make efforts to lead a more sustainable life. And that´s what we need. We need new technologies and zero energy houses and green energies, but the thing we need most are people who want to use it and who will support green politics and modest living. | ||
I´d like to say big thanks to Dana and Andrew for organising this trip, for being so good and patient | I´d like to say a big thanks to Dana and Andrew for organising this trip, for being so good and patient with us and helping to create such a good bunch. The trip was very well organised and the only thing I missed a bit was a repeat of the first evening when we all gathered after the dinner and had a semi-seroius semi-friendly talk about our opinions and ideas. |
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