Katharina Hagenhofer, on Land Access for New Farmers, all videos
Table Of Contents:
(0:15-1:58) FARM ACQUISITION OUTSIDE THE FAMILY
-- Growing up around Industrial Agriculture (0:45)
-- Interest in Nature Conservation and Animal Rights (1:00)
-- Involved in Fair Trade and learned of Organic (1:15)
(1:59-5:00) LEARNING ORGANIC
-- Volunteered for Organic Farm through Program in Austria (1:59)
-- Romantic image of farms (2:54)
-- Love of Food and Connection to food production for community (3:25)
-- Studied Agricultural Sciences (3:40)
(5:10-7:58) DECIDING TO FARM FOR A CAREER AND ACQUIRING LAND
-- Family Farms are too stressful (5:13)
-- Collective / Community farm Interests (5:35)
-- Dutch Biodynamic Association program to get land (5:41)
-- Access to land for community farms and young farmers (6:45)
(7:59-10:41) RESEARCH ON LAND SUCCESSION AND ACQUISITION
-- Little Data, encourage students to study and retrieve data (8:06)
-- Actors and Organizations trying to help new farmers (9:13)
-- Factors supporting and hindering actors work (9:58)
(10:42-19:25) VALUES THAT LED IN THIS FARMING DIRECTION
-- Education about destruction of nature (12:12)
-- Parents Christian values about helping people (13:42)
-- Mother grew up on a farm, spent some time there as a kid (14:22)
-- Nostalgia (14:44)
-- Organic moving forward, not back (15:13)
-- Not materialistic, conscious consumption (16:10)
-- Student Exchange / study abroad in Ireland on organic farm (17:02)
-- Physical contact with growing produce (18:14)
(19:26-22:35) FAIR TRADE IN DEVELOPED WORLD / GLOBALIZATION
-- Church had a Fair Trade Group (19:26)
-- Organic as new dimension (19:44)
-- Fair Trade about farmers “here” (19:54)
-- Globalization (20:36)
-- Food Chains / Supply Chains (21:31)
-- Different kinds of Organic farmers (22:01)
(22:36-27:33) WAS SCHOOL SUPPORT FOR GROWING UP?
-- Primary school influences (23:29)
-- High School Study Abroad Experience (25:48)
-- Only one in her class that did Natural Sciences (27:12)
(27:37- 31:22) IMPORTANCE OF HOBBIES AS LEARNING TOOLS
-- Reading (28:17)
-- Had a vegetable garden (28:34)
-- Traveling (29:29)
(31:23-32:34) THEORETICAL EDUCATION VERSUS EXPERIENCE ON ORGANIC FARMING
(32:35-35:33) CONNECTING TO A PLACE
-- Nature and Human Impact (33:32)
-- Community and Nature Relationship (33:46)
(35:34-38:53) IDEAL FARM AND BEYOND FARMING
-- Small community farm (35:49)
-- Subsistence farming (36:08)
-- Farming as a community activity as opposed to a job (36:47)
-- Sustainable communities (37:39)
-- Community Supported Agriculture and Direct Marketing (38:04)
-- Community Outreach, Engagement and Education (39:06)
(38:54-41:50) BEYOND ORGANIC LABELING
-- Joys of farming and ecological farming more important than organic certification (39:01)
-- Not interested in large-scale organic (40:46)
(41:51-44:06) IDEAL COMMUNITY
-- Exploring Methods for Communication and organization (43:18)
(44:11-49:53) LONG ROAD TO FARM OWNERSHIP AND PURSING THE DREAM
-- Learned many different approaches to land access (45:17)
-- Optimistic about future of farming (45:22)
-- France organization helping start-up farmers with advising and land access (46:03)
-- German knowledge network links farmers to potential new farmers (47:28)
-- Austria local initiatives for direct purchase (48:55)
(49:53-52:12) FUTURE SOLUTIONS
-- Optimistic, but obstacles (50:02)
-- Research is important (50:32)
-- Public and Policies, Political Support (50:45)
(52:13-57:44) OPINION ON: MINNESOTA CULTURE OF YOUNG GENERATIONS SELLING THE FARMLAND, QUITTING
-- Rising age of farmers (54:36)
-- Unattractive job of farming (54:50)
-- Difficulties for Small-holder farmer’s Association (55:28)
-- Doors for New Farmers (56:36)
(57:45-62:43) NEW AGE FARMERS AND WHERE TO START
-- Subsidy system lacks support (62:10)
