🌳”The Eye Of The Lord Makes The Ox Fat.”💡 True to this motto, on Friday, May 23, 2025, we got to experience two very different variants of a food forest, an edible forest. Wouter van Eck – Ketelbroek Hildegard Hendricks and Georg Reymers – Future Food Forest ✨ 🌳 These are sustainable cultivation systems that are based on the natural structure of a forest. Instead of cultivating monocultures, various edible plants such as fruit trees, berry bushes, herbs, and root vegetables are combined across multiple levels. The result is a diverse, resilient ecosystem that requires little maintenance and provides food in the

🌻 Agroforestry – more than trees in the field ✨ When whole groups of students travel to the Alleen 3 agroforestry research site in Kleve, buses leave the campus for excursions and professors invite you to a talk on the Science Bench, it’s Agroforestry Summer Week at Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences. 💡 Practical insights and a wide range of opportunities for dialogue offered both students and interested citizens the chance to delve deeper into the agroforestry concept 🌳 The Agroforestry Summer Week got off to a fruity start at Obsthof Rönn in Meckenheim and at Solawi Alfter in the Rhein-Sieg

Laufzeit und Finanzierung des Projekts Agropole InnovatesDas Projekt Agropole Innovates hat noch eine Laufzeit bis einschließlich August 2026 und wird neben den Eigenanteilen der Projektpartner im Rahmen des Interreg VI-Programms Deutschland-Nederland durchgeführt und mit 2,025 Mio. Euro durch die Europäische Union, das Ministerium für Wirtschaft, Industrie, Klimaschutz und Energie des Landes NRW (MWIKE NRW), das Niedersächsische Ministerium für Bundes- und Europaangelegenheiten und Regionale Entwicklung (MB Niedersachsen), das niederländische Wirtschaftsministerium (EZK) sowie die Provinz Limburg mitfinanziert. http://www.deutschland-nederland.eu/ Gefördert durch: Innovationsprojekt „Benefits of Frass “ Effekte von Restströmen aus der Insektenproduktion auf Boden und Pflanzen 🪱✨ Das Thema Insekten als neuartige Proteinquelle für

🌱ASA Project: Supporting Smallholder Cocoa Farmers in Costa Rica 🍫 The project began on May 7th with a kickoff workshop to define the initial steps of the tandem working groups. Six students, Abril, Nicole, and Brayan from Costa Rica, Ella and Gregor from Germany, and Livia from Italy are currently developing a consumer questionnaire and interview guides for chocolatiers, who will be identified in the next phase. Cocoa has long been a traditional crop in Costa Rica, particularly in the Talamanca region. After a major decline in the 1970s due to the Monilinia fungus, new resistant cocoa varieties and improved practices