Every Thursday producers and consumers have an opportunity for exchange in the Federación de Comunidades campesinas de Salcedo (FECOS), of Federation of Community Farmers of Salcedo. This is an opportunity for small producers to showcase their agroecologically produced goods and for consumers to purchase fresh and healthy food directly from local producers. Hear EkoRural´s Rubén Villamarín speak (Spanish) with … Continue reading Food Sovereignty Fair in Salcedo
Tejiendo Vidas: An Opportunity for Sharing and Learning
Bag made from local natural Cabuya fiber Tejiendo Vidas is a project focusing on the sustainable production of artisanal goods in the communities of Padrehuasi and Samiatug Samai. This includes an agro-ecological approach to cultivating the Cabuya plant, which provides the natural fibers. The objective of Tejiendo Vidas is to diversify and stregthen artisan products made … Continue reading Tejiendo Vidas: An Opportunity for Sharing and Learning
Visit to Pacho Gangotena’s Organic Farm in Ecuador
Pacho Gangotena showing what fertile soil looks like. As part of the 2010 Groundswell International conference organized by Ekorural in Quito, Ecuador, Ekorural and other Groundswell members visited Pacho Gangotena’s farm in Puembo, Ecuador. We were just the latest of some 19,000 farmers that have come to learn from Pacho over the past two decades. … Continue reading Visit to Pacho Gangotena’s Organic Farm in Ecuador
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