Projects & Practice

Genetic resources in animal husbandry: important actions for the local community and the environment to promote traditional, extensive livestock farming and the protection of biodiversity.

A young farmer created a new business model that combines organic farming and environmental protection with job creation and socially inclusive educational services.  

Angelic Gardens (Anielskie Ogrody) is a forward-looking project that aims to create oases of biodiversity in farms and gardens. It shows that a small productive garden on a family farm can, with little effort, be beautiful and provide high quality bio food. Angelic Gardens leads the way in the times of pandemic and climate change with high quality ‘step by step’ educational materials and easy internet communication.
 

A family farm converted to organic lavender farming in order to diversify their offer of products and services in an environmentally sustainable way.

A family farm invested in soil conservation practices to increase its capacity to store water and its microbial biomass activity.

The project took nature-friendly vine cultivation on a family farm a step further to develop zero-waste processing methods that valorise all by-products of grapes in a sustainable and fully circular way. The resulting seeds, oil and flour have proved very popular with customers.

Organic and biodynamic farms cooperate to jointly acquire conservation tillage equipment (subsoilers and no till seeding machine) to enhance soil quality, reduce pollution and maximise their soil’s capacity to act as a carbon sink

A small farm converted to organic vegetable production and in so doing successfully increased its competitiveness and profitability.
 

An example of sustainable cultivation of olive trees and extraction of olive oil using innovative ultrasound techniques.

An organic mountain farm uses indigenous breeds to produce high-quality meat, while preserving the local environment and genetic resources.