La Planta
Nuestra de Cada Día
Each topic is split into a
series of workshops, the number varying, depending on time and
resource availability. For a closer look at what goes on within
each workshop, have a look in our photo archive...
·Agrifam: This is usually split into a
series of 7-10 workshops comprised of...
- What is Agrifam &
Agricultural Biology
and what are
its advantages
- How to obtain seeds from
various plants
such as,
Tomatos, Peppers etc
- The seed itself,
advantages, how to make
them
- How to sow seeds, caring
for them
- What is compost, how to
obtain/make it,
how to know if
it is ready
- Natural controls of
pests and diseases
-
Biologicl control, recomendations
·Organic: This is a very broad heading
for a very diverse topic and hence may vary take anything from 5
to 20 workshops depending in what depth we wish to go. In its
broadest form it includes such things as...
- Concepts of conservation
of food,
objectives and
hygiene of food
- Methods of conservation
including drying,
smoking,
salting, curing, cooking/boiling,
pickling,
fermenting, pasteurization,
sterilization,
freezing etc.
- Methods of personal skin
hygiene and
natural
cosmetics
- Teaching about the
propreties of various
plants to
allieve medical problems such as
diarrhoea
- Preparing various food
dishes that can be
made from
organic ingredients, such as
sauces to
actual meals
·Commercial: This topic is actually relatively
large as it encorporates the sub-topic of recycling. This can be
seen as a way to cut costs and hence works in conjunction with the
workshops on "micro- empresas" (micro-companies). It
includes...
- Concepts of Reduce, Re-Use,
Recycle
- Recycling organic material,
recycling
paper, glass, metal,
tins
- Benefits and
Problems
- Commercial outlets via
micro-companies.
We teach: motivation, strategy,
products,
processes,
marketing, cost/revenue
analysis, basic
finance and accounting.
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GAIA is a non-government
funded organisation which relies largely on the external support
and funding from public and private institutions, as well as
donations and help from members of the general
public.
We need to continue our
project "Our
Daily Plant" onto the next phases of the diagram above - as
these are vital phases in ensuring that the work we have done so
far is sustained and will lead to gradual development of these
communities.
Workshops in the last three
phases will teach these communities to be able to expand and adapt
what they have learned. The aim of this is to allow them to
surpass the goal of self sufficiency and instead to offer the
market products that it doesnt already have and that will sell for
more: "Why sell strawberries when strawberry jam will sell for
more?..."
To see these workshops in more detail, have a look at our photo archives which has a pictoral step by step description of what is done in the workshops as well as other areas of our work.
