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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.
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| 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") |
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| 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…) |
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| 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") |
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| 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") | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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.) |
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| Saturday, 27 October: Harvesting sweet potatoes/ Checking buckwheat | Saturday, 24 November: Harvesting buckwheat! | |
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| 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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