Agriculture Action Camp 5–10 July Den Bosch NL

From the 5th till 10th of July in Den Bosch in the Nether­lands, ASEED will orga­nize a 6 days long camp. The camp will involve work­shops, train­ings, dis­cus­sions, and action, for good eco­log­i­cal ini­tia­tives, an alter­na­tive food chain, alter­na­tives to indus­tri­al farm­ing, and against gen­tech and meat indus­try, and more.. 

Do you know where your food comes from? Do you want to take food in your own hands and make the food chain short­er between the farm­ers and con­sumers? Do you also want to know more about the strug­gle against GMOs and indus­tri­al farm­ing that is dom­i­nat­ed by big com­pa­nies? Do you want to orga­nize actions against the meat indus­try and the imports of ani­mal feed? But you are also inter­est­ed in pro­duc­ing your own food on a sus­tain­able, cli­mate neu­tral, autonomous and social way? Are you not afraid of get­ting your hands dirty in a work­shop? All of these and more will be cov­ered dur­ing the camp. We invite activists, slow-food­ies, farm­ers, gar­den­ers, stu­dents, ani­mal friends and peo­ple who want to learn and share skills on sus­tain­able agri­cul­ture to come to the camp. Mark your agen­das and join in! 

Last year the first Agri­cul­ture Action Camp in The Nether­lands took place in the Flevopold­er with 70 par­tic­i­pants camp­ing on an organ­ic farm for three days. We had a pro­gram full of work­shops and dis­cus­sions, and two actions close to the camp against GM crops and soy green­wash­ing. The par­tic­i­pants opt­ed for a replay, so here comes the sec­ond camp once again with an inter­est­ing pro­gramme of work­shops, train­ings, action and nice atmos­phere.

Hel­lo every­body, 
We are get­ting clos­er to the date it is all going to start, the loca­tion will be in the city of Den Bosch (or ‘s Her­to­gen­bosch) in and around a squat­ted com­mu­ni­ty gar­den project Graafse Hof in a res­i­den­tial area in the East of the city. The work­shop pro­gram is get­ting more and more con­crete. Con­firmed are amongst oth­er things: GMO update by Green­peace, GMO field lib­er­a­tion move­ments by FLM Bel­gium (more contributions/examples 
from sim­i­lar move­ments in oth­er coun­tries wel­come!!), intro­duc­tion into dif­fer­ent forms of sus­tain­able agri­cul­ture sys­tems (bio­dy­nam­ic, agroe­col­o­gy, per­ma­cul­ture), seed sav­ing, worm com­post­ing, get­ting to know your gar­den­ing tools, action train­ings by Vre­desac­tie, trac­tor dri­ving, talks with and work­ing with farm­ers, food sov­er­eign­ty: what does it mean, Euro­pean move­ment, con­crete exam­ples, and more to come. The pro­gram starts on Thurs­day 5th in the evening and goes on till Mon­day 9th July. 

Give a Work­shop? 
Want to come and give a work­shop your­self? Great! We are in par­tic­u­lar­ly inter­est­ed to hear about reclaim the fields land occu­pa­tion actions, or sim­i­lar campaigns/initiatives going on, as well as the Reclaim the fields move­ment in gen­er­al. Also look­ing for some­one who can tell more about the Euro­pean Cam­paign for Seed Sov­er­eign­ty. But any­thing rel­e­vant, you’re wel­come to pro­pose. 

Info stall @ mini alter­na­tive agro fair on Sat­ur­day 7 July, 13.00? 
Sat­ur­day we want to focus on get­ting more main­stream peo­ple to par­tic­i­pate in the camp. The work­shops are more intro­duc­to­ry and their will be a small fair. Want to have stall to spread mate­ri­als from your project or action group? Let us know. 

Net­working @ World­cafe on Sat­ur­day 7 July, 20.00 
Sat­ur­daynight we will turn a tent into a nice cafe, where every­one can come to exchange ideas and exam­ples. Organ­i­sa­tions, Ini­tia­tives and Indi­vid­u­als have the oppor­tu­ni­ty for reser­vat­ing a table, where peo­ple can sit around to have infor­mal con­ver­sa­tions. Want to have a table your project/initiative/campaign? read more here: 
 http://landbouwactiekamp.contrast.org/?page_id=181 

Action 
Mon­day July 9 will have a focus on doing one or more actions. Pos­si­ble targets/topics are men­tioned in the call out from before. The camp will decide col­lec­tive­ly what it will become at the begin­ning of the week­end. 

Finances & trav­el costs reim­burse­ments 
We have some fund­ing for the camp but not enough to cov­er all costs, so we would ask a par­tic­i­pants for a con­tri­bu­tion of 7,50 if you come 1 day, less per day if you stay longer (see the web­site under prac­ti­cal­i­ties). 
We have some lim­it­ed pos­si­bil­i­ties to (par­tial­ly) cov­er trav­el costs from peo­ple com­ing from abroad, AND com­ing on the 4th of July (help build up) and/or stay till 11th (help break down). Let us know if you want to come, and trav­el costs are an issue. If you can trav­el on one of these dates, we can prob­a­bly reim­burse (some) costs. 

Want to reserve a work­shop slot, info stall or world­cafe table, or just know more about  the camp, con­tact us via  landbouwactiekamp@aseed.net. 

We still need peo­ple to; 
-make the kids pro­gram and orga­nize the kids area in the camp 
-help us with the infra­struc­ture prepa­ra­tions of the camp, & be there on the 4th to set up the camp, 
-trans­la­tion and edit­ing texts,(NL, ENG, DE main­ly) 
-help us out with pro­gram con­tent, 
-facil­i­tate work­shops, trans­la­tion dur­ing the work­shops etc.. 

Cheers and hope to see some of you @ Den Bosch. 

ASEED

http://www.landbouwactiekamp.net/