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Stanford Inn Supports Greenbelt Project
The Greenbelt Project is part of a global effort to meet the challenges of our growing world population by teaching farmers how to grow using biointensive methods. We are running out of arable land and this method - based on a whole foods, plant based diet - will feed one person per 4000 square feet. This photograph shows about 1/4 of the total garden in plants.
About the Greenbelt project: Students are coming to Stanford Inn Eco-Resort, as well as other sites, to learn the techniques of biointensive farming, in part researched and developed by the Ecology Action Center headed by John Jeavons, author of How to Grow More Vegetables and Fruits than You Ever Thought Possible on Less Land than You can Imagine. His method is the foundation of our organic farming, which we began in 1985. John's students took over 4000 square feet of our horse pasture to create a mini-farm. They are double digging, composting, and calorie farming - charting every aspect - from growth rates, harvest amounts, companion planting and more. They are learning not only how to do it, but how to teach it. Following their certification as biointensive farmers they go throughout the world to teach others how to teach the methods to farmers in rural undeveloped areas of North, Central and South America, Africa, and Asia. |
