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FOLENS Seminar March - December 2012: FOLENS Farm Activities – Sustainable Community Development and Urban Agriculture
FOLENS has launched farming activities for its students and faculty in March 2012. At the “FOLENS Farm”, set up at a pasture land in Fuchu Campus, following activities have been carried out. Our aims include; 1) providing students opportunities to experience farm work that is a process to understand and utilize the natural environment for human life; 2) facilitate communication among FOLENS students and faculty; 3) facilitate communication between FOLENS and local residents; and then 4) develop understanding and ideas on roles of urban agriculture in sustainable community development. So far, we have grown vegetables, flowers, buckwheat without no chemical fertilizers or pesticides.
Wednesday, 28 March: Planting potatoes | Saturday, 12 May: Welcome Party for new FOLENS students | Saturday, 12 May:Planting seeds of summer vegetables (corns, tomatoes, cucumbers, egg plants, bitter gourds, water melons, and flowers such as sun flowers and marigolds) (In collaboration with a graduate course "Symbiotic Education") |
Saturday, 12 May:Seedlings of summer vegetables (corns, tomatoes, cucumbers, egg plants, bitter gourds, water melons, and flowers such as sun flowers and marigolds) (In collaboration with a graduate course "Symbiotic Education") | Wednesday, 23 May: Pruning and weeding for summer vegetables (In collaboration with a graduate course "Symbiotic Education") | Monday, 18 June: Meeting
Monday, 25 June: Meeting & planting vegetables from international students’ countries (Chinese spinaches, corianders, Java spinaches, etc…) |
Friday, 29 June: Harvesting potatoes (In collaboration with a graduate course "Symbiotic Education") | Tuesday, 3 July: Weeding and harvesting summer vegetables To an album in Facebook=> http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set =a.4268815680300.2184005.1283329663 &type=3&l=70697abf1e |
Friday, 6 July: Weeding and harvesting summer vegetables (In collaboration with a graduate course "Symbiotic Education") |
Monday, 9 July: Harvesting more potatoes | Friday, 13 July: Visit Seseragi Farm (Community farm in Hino City) (In collaboration with a graduate course "Symbiotic Education") | |
To an album in Facebook=> http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set =a.4470524922905.2189586.1283329663 &type=1&l=8da74ab10f |
Monday, 18 July: Meeting Thursday, 9 August: Harvesting summer vegetables, weeding, and meeting | |
To an album in Facebook=> http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set= a.4470549763526.2189590.1283329663 &type=1&l=723e690bbe |
Tuesday, 21 August: Clearing some of the summer vegetables/ Planting buckwheat
To an album in Facebook=> http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set =a.4470562043833.2189591. 1283329663&type=1&l=9ff78e9048 |
Tuesday, 11 September: Harvesting summer vegetables/ Checking buckwheat/ Planting autumn & winter vegetables (radishes, turnips etc.) |
Saturday, 27 October: Harvesting sweet potatoes/ Checking buckwheat | Saturday, 24 November: Harvesting buckwheat! | |
To an album in Facebook=> http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.274067482715388.61770.100003 364161221&type=3&l=aed12e915a |
Saturday, 15 December: Open farm event for locals/ Thrashing buckwheat |
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