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CHAPTER 12
PE OP LE !
Olga Huemer’s dream to live on a farm came true. It was
her wish when she participated in the Youth workshop
in 2015 and 2 years later, she and her husband Thomas
managed to buy a farm to start with organic vegetables
and cereals in a small mountain village in Austria. From her
childhood in Ukraine, collecting herbs in the wild for her
grandmother and working in her grandmother’s garden, she
keeps an interest for traditional knowledge of herbs and
seeds. That is why they work only with seedfast (non-hybrid)
varieties of crops and old breeds of animals, which are
mainly endangered. They also are members of Arche Noah,
an Austrian seedsaving organisation.
Balanced teaching and learning is the soil not plants is a principle, seeds and
essence of biodynamic philosophy, animals shall be bred for longevity not
between agronomy and practice in for high yields - these objectives are
the field, between wood, metal and respected in biodynamic practices.
art work, music, dancing and singing. Finally being a farmer, small or even
Cows must have horns, feeding the tiny, is a way of life.
“This place felt like a ‘young farmers incubator’.”
2. Warmonderhof School Farm
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