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| Saint Hildegard of Bingen | Welcome to our private Botanical Garden Ecolanum |
Saint Francis of Assisis |
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en svensk version
www.ecolanum.se utvecklas
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live Twitter account @ecolanum |
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Richard Ecolanum Garden |
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Ecolanum Ven |
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"Glans at the sun. See the moon and the stars. Gaze at the
beauty of the earth." Hildegard of Bingen |
Ecolanum is developing methodologies
for the sustainable horticulture and small scale
complementary food production. The underlying research
ground is a Botanical Garden incorporating “edible
forest” concept. Until now the activities were conducted on the non-profit basis as the owners dispose of the private economic resources and the emphasis was concentrated on the garden development phase and research |
| As an example of an "edible forest" , the radicchio lettuce on the photo grows everywhere all the year round and summer time, in the second year flowers beautifully. |
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In June we have celebrated a 5 years anniversary at the current location.
June 2017, the truck with plants is boarding ferry to Ven, The island of
Ven is visible at the horizon. we have moved with our plants from Vienna/Austria to Ven/Sweden in June 2017 For the sake of an experiment we try to be as self-sustained as possible. As we are not generating any income we need to use financial resources from USA in order to subsidize the development phase which when accomplished should minimize needs of the external resources. Our objective is to operate on a non-profit basis. |
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| After 2 days of transportation from Vienna, the last stage, offloading the plants after arrival on Ven |
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Chionanthus |
Lagerstroemia froze in Vienna, much loved in Korea |
Cornus Frlorida, Cherokee Chief, died on Ven due to too much water | Asimina, we need a pollinator, we have a few "clones" |
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Dahlia Imperialis how to bring this plant to bloom |
Meconopsis betonicifolia ´we have never succeded the plant to survive to the next year |
Brachychiton we have around 30 years old tree, still waiting on flowers |
Asimina triloba we need more fruits |
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plastics |
thin silage plastic disintegrates contaminating ground water and the sea, we have "inherited" a large amount of manure unfortunately it is a "lasagne" of manure and plastics |
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today's drone photos, visibility maybe not the best but no wind |
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Tycho Brahe's "castle" Today's outline |
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Personal Notes
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Socio-economics of Ven |
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Demography: Between 370 and 380 people live permanently on the Island. By very superficial evaluation we have an impression that the demographic (age group) pyramided is very skew. Proportionally there are very few children and young people living permanently on Ven. Many houses are owned by summer guests and the population increases manifold during the summer months. | |
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Socioeconomically we belong to the group of retirees whose interest is to maintain wide spectrum and good services; we do not care about tourism and try to protect our gardens from the roe deer. On the other hand the level of local services is dependent on the prosperity and activates of all other groups. No activities on the island means no base for social services. |
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| the site is growing chaotically every day, like a garden |
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