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Commenced:
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01/03/2011 |
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Submitted:
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14/02/2011 |
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Last updated:
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07/10/2015 |
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Location:
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Ulgii soum, Bayan Ulgii Province, MN |
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Website:
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http://thegreenbackpack.net |
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Climate zone:
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Cold Temperate |
The Asia-Pacific Center for Regenerative Design has been contracted by the NGO group ADRA-Monoglia to facilitate a two-week 'Sustainable Agriculture & Economic Learning' course. Southern Cross Permaculture Institute (Australia) will act as an advisor to the project, building upon the knowledge base seeded in the 2010 Mongolian Permaculture Project at Suvraga Aguyt Co-operative in Tosontsengel, Zavkhan Province.
The SAEL Project commences on Feb 22, 2011, and will focus on equipping students with practical hands-on training to:
- design & create their own sustainable backyard permaculture food production systems.
- form Self-Help Groups which will become the foundational support network for resource-sharing, seed-saving, and credit co-operative & future microfinance initiatives.
- start & run regenerative microenterprises serving niche markets available in the soum.
Follow the project's daily log at: theGreenBackpack.net
For more information about the climate-change-related challenges Bayan Ulgii province faces, watch: #73, Bayan Olgii from the 100 Places to Remember project.
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Update from the field
Very brief update from field offices; ADRA head offices are now preparing for succession planning as this project ends its funding cycle.
SEAL Project awarded 6 hectares for Permacultural development
Ulgii City and Bugat soum Governors award 6 hectares to SEAL PRoject for development as Permaculture Demonstration sites.
Quiet Revolution featured on TransitionVoice.com
A student has expressed interest in converting her broad scale family plot into another broad scale permaculture design for commercial vegetable production. Change is already moving at all levels, all because one person, my boss on this project, took
Chickens in Bayan Ulgii (Day 14)
This flock of 10-12 chickens has been thriving for the last 10 years in this design, laying 5-10 eggs per day from March - October, providing eggs, meat, and baby chickens when need, as well as an additional family income of 300MNT per egg (360,000 - 720,
Composting Toilet Design in Bayan Ulgii
For most of the year, the sewage matter is frozen and so does not create an unpleasant odour or attract flies (though to visiting foreigners, squatting above a frozen pile of faeces pointing at your bum like Vlad the Impaler can be somewhat disconcerting)
Backgroun information for Bayan Ulgii SAEL Project
...some background information about SAEL, as described by ADRA-Mongolia, the NGO facilitating the project: