Zurich

From 11th-13th of April 2014 the second LEARACT work meeting started at th’Kraftwerk’.

Soon after the gathering we started with the hopes fears and expectations concerning the current meeting.

Afterwards the group visited the community garden ‘Kronenwiese’ where a representative of ‘Grün Stadt Zürich’ made a short introduction.

Then a enthusiastic discussion started

Back in the “Stadiongarten” the group got instructions for preparing dinner: cooking pizza and crêpes with the clay and the pyro cook stoves.

Next morning the group visited two community gardens, with introductions from people who are involved in the projects: The “Brauergarten”, “seed city”. There they got short inputs, had informal exchange and discussions during the coffee breaks. In

The afternoon we startet the compostig sessions, by a short theoretical input…

Then the expert explained- simultaneously translated from german into english- his method of composting and showed a excellent and ripe compost

Finally, we started practising by collecting the different ingredients for the compost.

The Air ventilation ‘chimney’ will be the heart of the round shaped compost pile.

……and documented the process in the field

After compostig, the method of generating bio char was explained…… On Sunday morning the group started with the evaluation of the composting session

Then each country-group could roughly plan the testing of the method in its own community garden

Finally the group completed the personal evaluation by reflecting their hopes, fears and expectations at the beginning of the meeting, filled out a general evaluation form and then the next meeting in Stockholm was planned.