Organic farms with healthy food to every home and school
Brief description
Sustainable agriculture is one of the more suitable forms of agricultural development in the municipality of Kamnik. Numerous farms have a possibility of switching to organic farming but do not decide to do so since the market for such products is too small at the moment. By creating the demand for organic food and ensuring the market for it the number of organic farms in the municipality will grow. The aim of the project is to educate and raise awareness of the population on organically grown food.
The project executor is the municipality of Kamnik. Kamnik is an economic, cultural and administrative centre of the municipality, which comprises an area of 266 square kilometres. The town is situated to the north-east from the Ljubljana Basin. The boundaries of the municipality are the Kamniška Bistrica river and mountains in the north and a plain extending to the south. The town and its surroundings are densely populated, while the valleys of Tuhinj and Crna are more sparsely inhabited. According to the most recent data the population of the municipality of Kamnik is 27,044.
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Kamnik
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Railway station Kamnik
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Center of Kamnik
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Aims
to educate, inform and encourage people to use more organically produced food
- to bring organic produce closer to consumers and acquaint the population with it
- to connect organic food producers with school kitchens of two elementary schools
- to enable pupils of two elementary schools to eat healthy food
- to connect individuals and societies involved in supplementary activities on farms with schools and include their products in the offer of the organic market
- to popularize organic agriculture in the municipality of Kamnik and consequently to increase the number of organic farms in the municipality.
Realization
- preliminary field survey with visits to farmers and societies and introduction of the project,
- discussions with primary schools concerning the inclusion of local organic produce in school meals, education on sustainable agriculture and organically produced food; visits to farms and societies, visit to the organic market, demonstration of how products are made,
- familiarisation of Kamnik residents with new healthy food products on the market, presentation of the project in newspapers and regular articles (stressing the importance of organic food for people's health),
- preparation of workshops for organic farmers and for societies: detailed presentation of the project including its key goals and expected results; inclusion of their suggestions (four workshops are envisaged),
- organisation of the organic market and presentation of a catalogue of local organic farms,
- field work - at certain times we will perform field checks on the progress of the project and the results both at farms and in schools,
- reporting on the progress and informing on the results.
Involved
- Marija Vera Elementary School in Duplica (the only school in the municipality of Kamnik already included in the ECO-SCHOOL project),
- Šmartno v Tuhinju Elementary School (already cooperating with the Countrywomen Society of the Tuhinj Valley)
- organic farms in the municipality,
- association of organic farmers "ZDRAVO ŽIVLJENJE" (Healthy Living) Lukovica with their trademark of organic produce BIODAR,
- farms and individuals (already involved in supplementary activities at the farm), agronomic consultants,
- inspection services (food),
- Dušan Prašnikar - CIPRA (expert collaborator)
Projectterm
January 2007 - June 2008
Financing
Municipality of Kamnik: 13'201€
DYNALP²: 10'000€
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