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06/12/2018 | Campus-Meldung

Experience organic farming - University participates in action days in North Hesse

For twelve days, visitors to Northern Hesse can experience first-hand how organic farming works. Organic farms and other institutions open their doors at the 1st Organic Action Days North Hesse in June - also the University of Kassel participates with its Department of Organic Agricultural Sciences.

Image: Blafield.

The aim of the action days is to inform about organic farming and to get people excited about organic and regionally produced products. Not only farmers are invited, but also everyone who likes to eat healthy and consciously. The organizers expect around 600 visitors.

Prof. Dr. Jürgen Heß, scientific director of the experimental farm Domäne Frankenhausen, will open the program on June 15, 6 p.m., together with District Administrator Uwe Schmidt (Kassel District) and Dr. Rainer Wallmann (First Deputy District Administrator Werra-Meißner) at the Domäne. Afterwards, excerpts from the documentary film "Land am Rand", which was awarded a prize in 1996, will be shown in the "Alter Kuhstall". Director Götz Penner as well as some of the film actors of that time will be guests.

Further program points of the University of Kassel in the following days:

  • Information on studying ecological agricultural sciences: June 18, 19, 20, 21 and 22, 12 to 2 p.m. each day, the department's monastery building, Steinstrasse, Witzenhausen. Free admission.
  • Farm tour Domäne Frankenhausen, Grebenstein: June 19, 8:30 to 11 a.m., free admission.
  • Field Day: Resource conservation through soil protection and biodiversity. June 19, 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Neu-Eichenberg experimental farm, Heideweg 6, Neu-Eichenberg. Price 15 euros.
  • Offer for school classes: What is organic farming? June 20 and 21, in each case in the morning. Frankenhausen domain, Grebenstein. Free admission, registration required.
  • Organic farming in the tropics: June 23, 2 to 3 p.m., University Tropical Greenhouse, Steinstrasse 19, Witzenhausen. Admission 2.50 euros.
  • Ecological agriculture in the home garden: June 23, 3:30 to 4:30 p.m., teaching garden at the tropical greenhouse, Steinstraße 19, Witzenhausen. Price 2.50 euros.
  • Tour for children of elementary school age: June 25, 3:30 to 6 p.m., Domäne Frankenhausen, Grebenstein. Free admission.

Numerous other events will take place from June 16 to 26, including an after-work market with Environment and Agriculture Minister Priska Hinz on the market square in Witzenhausen (June 26, 4 to 8 p.m.). The complete program under https://www.oekomodellregionen-hessen.de/images/nordhessen/veranstaltungen/oeko-aktionstage-juni-2018-Veranstaltungen_Finale.pdf.

The organizer of the Eco Action Days is the North Hesse Eco Model Region.