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| - | ==== If you can’t pay for a loaf, go bake your own ==== | + | ====If you can’t pay for a loaf, go bake your own==== |
| - | Uroš Veber interviewing Helena Krapež, the owner of the excursion farm Pr' | + | Uroš Veber interviewing Helena Krapež, the owner of the excursion farm [[http:// |
| - | In preparation for the Unmanned Resilience workshop and residency that took place in the western district of Slovenia during the summer of 2012, we compiled a list of organic farms on the Gora plateau, hoping to see where we might be able to stay during our trek and at the same time source some produce from local growers. But after just a few minutes on the phone to these farmers, we quickly came to realise how little our preliminary researches told us about the actual state of agriculture in Gora. In a time when “self-sufficiency” has become a buzzword and there is raised awareness and concern about health, food quality, and the environmental impacts of intensive farming, we were surprised to learn how many farmers in the region had stopped producing for the market – many of them while in the very process of becoming officially recognised as organic farms. | + | In preparation for the [[Unmanned Resilience]] workshop and residency that took place in the western district of Slovenia during the summer of 2012, we compiled a list of organic farms on the Gora plateau, hoping to see where we might be able to stay during our trek and at the same time source some produce from local growers. But after just a few minutes on the phone to these farmers, we quickly came to realise how little our preliminary researches told us about the actual state of agriculture in Gora. In a time when “self-sufficiency” has become a buzzword and there is raised awareness and concern about health, food quality, and the environmental impacts of intensive farming, we were surprised to learn how many farmers in the region had stopped producing for the market – many of them while in the very process of becoming officially recognised as organic farms. |
| But in those few phone calls we were lucky enough to stumble on Helena Krapež, the owner of an excursion farm that welcomes visitors with homemade spirits, locally grown food, herbs and regional wine. She proved to be very insightful about the state of farming in Gora, and we hoped to be able to pay her a visit during our Be Strong, Be Wrong foraging expedition, to hear more about life and farming in Gora nowadays. But unfortunately the sun and three days of constant hiking had taken its toll, and our group was unable to make the long detour necessary to reach her farm on our last day of hiking. In the end, we decided to pay her a visit almost half a year later. | But in those few phone calls we were lucky enough to stumble on Helena Krapež, the owner of an excursion farm that welcomes visitors with homemade spirits, locally grown food, herbs and regional wine. She proved to be very insightful about the state of farming in Gora, and we hoped to be able to pay her a visit during our Be Strong, Be Wrong foraging expedition, to hear more about life and farming in Gora nowadays. But unfortunately the sun and three days of constant hiking had taken its toll, and our group was unable to make the long detour necessary to reach her farm on our last day of hiking. In the end, we decided to pay her a visit almost half a year later. | ||
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