The Journal Of The Seed Ambassadors Project
Posted in Denmark, TRAVEL LOG on Dec 7th, 2006
Sounds a bit like The Middle Ages and knights and all that, and really that´s not too far off…
Thursday morning, November 30, we left for Barritskov, a manor house also on the East Coast of Jutland with 600+ hectares of Biodynamic forage crops and vegetables, and a sizable herd of beef cattle. Barritskov is [...]
Posted in Denmark, TRAVEL LOG on Dec 4th, 2006
From West Jutlands High School we traveled by bus to the city of Arhus, and then on to The Organic Agricultural College or Den Økologiske Landbrugsskole på Kalø near Rohne. This school, besides being a foreign language “high school”, also offers a three year certificate in Organic Farming, and trains about sixty students per year [...]
Posted in Denmark, Seed Saving, TRAVEL LOG on Dec 2nd, 2006
Birtha Toft, garden manager extraordinaire and member of the Frösamlerne, invited us to stay and work for a few days at Vestjyllands Højskole, “folk high school” where she works. Young people attend these schools of alternative education for six months to a year, usually between what is in the US high school and college. [...]
Posted in Denmark, TRAVEL LOG on Nov 30th, 2006
At the Frøsamlerne, event in Denmark we met up with Kayla and Amanda Preece, sisters(also from the Pacific Northwest) that have been traveling together checking out the seedscape of Italy since the beginning of November. We will be traveling together through our visit to Lithuania, after which they will return to the US.
Stay tuned for [...]
Posted in Denmark, Seed Saving, TRAVEL LOG on Nov 26th, 2006
When we got off the bus in Copenhagen it was very cold and seemed as though nothing was open. We decided to walk towards the center of town, past Tivoli Gardens and the wax museum to the main square. When we got to the town square it was full of life. We were surprised to [...]
Posted in Denmark, Germany, TRAVEL LOG on Nov 26th, 2006
We arrived in Frankfurt, Germany at 6pm on Thursday (11/23), after leaving LAX at about 8pm Wednesday night. Entering Germany was easier than any country I have ever traveled to. No “embarkation card” as is common in Southeast Asia, no visa, just a quick glance at our passports, a question of “where are you going?” [...]
Posted in Denmark, Germany, TRAVEL LOG on Nov 22nd, 2006
At 7pm we are leaving California for Germany and Denmark. we are very excited. When we arive in Europe we be posting a lot of great information and pictures and I am excited to share them with you all. Talk to you later when we are in another continent.
Posted in Denmark, TRAVEL LOG on Oct 23rd, 2006
As the first posting and I decided to talk about our first destination. Denmark!
Does anybody have anything to say about Denmark? We are very excited to go there for many reasons. First because we have received a warm welcoming invite from that area of Europe. Other reasons include: It is friendly to English speakers and [...]