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Straw Bale Building (Part 2.) – Getting Sculptural with Straw
April 30th, 2012 | 
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Re-stringing bales
Where walls end, by doors and windows you will need some half bales. These can easily be made by cutting one string, re-tying the two halfs and then repeating for the other string. care should be taken to keep the bale as tightly tied as possible.
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There is no food shortage, so stop starvation!
One of the rare positive effects of foodstuffs’ price increase is that it has become a worldwide known fact how important food-production is, says Jose Graziano da Silva, Brazilian authority, FAO’s new director general who entered office a few weeks ago. He considers access to food and land utmost important, so that people have the facilities to buy or produce what they eat. “There is plenty of food, but a lot of people, especially the poor cannot afford it, as it is too expensive. People are starving next to laded shelves”, claims da Silva. Read the rest of this entry »
Straw Bale Building (Part 1.)
Straw bale building was first developed in America during the 1800′s and is a technique that is rapidly gaining popularity today. Building with straw bales can be easy, cheap and fun. It is also a way to make a superbly energy efficient building.
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Organic Manure: the Treasure has Come
One of the good things of living in Somogyvámos is that we can get cow manure quite easily. 
Our vegetable garden has not cried out for nutrient supply, but after two years of using the land we have decided it is time to provide some support for the soil. We thought of it also as an exemplary move, because the basis of organic gardening is a well-prepared and nutritive rich soil.
The best presently existing soil-condition supplying material is cow manure, because it contains nutrients in optimal proportions, as well as it improves the structure of the soil. It loosens dense soil, makes clay ground friable and vegetables absorb nutrients easily.
As opposed to cow dung available in stores, the one we can get from Krishna Valley is hundred percent chemical and antibiotic free. Now, this is what makes it a treasure!
Does the toaster show what future awaits us?
Strengthening city-states, harshening weekdays, an all-powerful world government and completely new regulations – these may be some of the novelties of the three-year old financial crisis, the one that has reached new depths this year, according to futurologists.
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Weather Station in Krishna Valley
Krishna Valley and the Eco Valley foundation have recently set up a weather station near the organic garden as a sign of their mutual cooperation in the field of education and research. By this action an old dream has come true because the weather station helps not only the work of the gardeners but provides data for researchers and students as well.
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Ecological Overshoot Day 2011
September 25th, 2009
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September 17th, 2011
This year and in the last two years these were the exact days, when humanity overstepped the boundaries of its annual consumption rate. It is highly advisable that in the era of debt crises everyone becomes aware of the fact that not only firms, banks and countries, but also the entire mankind have exceeded their share of the credit margin.
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A small step, but giant progress
According to a recent survey, if there were a meat-free day weekly, then that would enormously improve the environment. It turned out, if people in the USA would not eat meat and cheese for a day each week, in such a case that would have an impact on the environment similarly as if 7.6 million cars were withdrawn from circulation.
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Agro Retro
An article entitled “On Small Farms, Hoof Power Returns” with a likewise topic appeared in the The New York Times. It speaks of the tendency that nowadays in several hundred minor farming projects in the USA people return to ox-power.
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Harvesting Festival
This year residents of the eco-village Visnyeszéplak and people from the homestead region of Ópusztaszer have also participated in the harvesting festival of Krishna Valley. Mostly the mower pulled by oxen attracted the people of other eco-villages. Therefore, besides the scythe one could also get some experience how oxen and men work together.
The two groups of Ópusztaszer and Visnyeszéplak did the best scything; the stubble they left behind was the nicest.
