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| Our research indicate that Ven looked so for 2000 years ago. Ecolanum aims at "rewilding" and re-establishing the original flora and landscape. |
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| Studying the accounts of the Ven's landscape for 400 years ago we could create the following approximation of the landscape in the eastern part of Ven. see photos below. The trees were cut some times ago and the area of our mark was covered marshes and swamps, grass and bushes. The land was not suitable for agriculture. |
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| Tycho Brahe enlarges the ponds and collects the water to his paper mill |
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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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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 |
