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Helsinki Webinar

I was invited by the Ruokavirasto Rural Network Support Unit of Finland to give a presentation about Hansalim at their regular webinar for rural development actors. Thomas Snellman of Reko also took part to share his thoughts about Hansalim following on from his visit in May 2024. Following the presentation I wrote a blog post for the Rural Network Support Unit website which is available to read here. And subsequently, the recording of the webinar was posted on their website and on Youtube for anyone to watch (see link below).

October 30, 2024 Read
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Vienna Webinar

On Thursday the 4th July 2024 we held a webinar hosted in Vienna to introduce people to Hansalim and to hear also from a cooperative in Vienna called Morgenrot which is setting out on its own journey inspired by the example of Hansalim. We gathered over 40 people from across Europe for a 2 hour session with talks by Ok-ja Kwon (president of the Hansalim Federation), Dr Miseong Cho (research director of Hansalim’s Mosim and Salim Research Institute), Dr Jonathan Dolley (Research Fellow at the University of Sussex) and Martin Gerstl (founding member of Morgenrot).

July 4, 2024 Read
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Hansalim Study Tour

Day 1 On Sunday the 13th May Thomas Snellman and I drove the 20 km from my home in Yangju to Bonginsa Temple on the outskirts of Seoul. We were meeting up with Lars Laegreid, John Koeckert and Vilde Karoline who had traveled from Norway a few days earlier to enjoy a brief temple stay before we embarked on our whirlwind tour of Hansalim together. Thomas is an organic farmer in Finland and the inventor of REKO1, an ingeniously simple concept that has grown into a global movement of local self-organised facebook communities who enable direct sales between farmers and consumers.

May 19, 2024 Read