Projects

Working Horses

In recent years a new kind of holiday, based on ecological tourism to organic farms, was pioneered in Poland. This new type of holiday or vacation is associated with the increasing awareness of the importance of the traditional rural environment as a vital natural and cultural resource and treasure that can be both protected and enjoyed. Poland is ideal for such holidays, as it has a variety of regions with beautiful landscapes, rich, bio-diverse environments, and small-scale organic and traditional farms that are ideal vacation spots.

Stryszow is a village located in the south of Poland, 50 km from Cracow. For many years this place has been connected with the activities for the organic agriculture, eco-tourism, renewable technologies and sustainable, family farming, mainly due to the excellent work of Jadwiga Lopata, the Goldman Prize winner in 2002.

(by Julian Rose)

 Objective Designate a “rural development hub” in the County which would act as a model for integrated sustainable development at the local level and catalyst for rural development. Set in motion solutions for a number of key concerns as outlined in the 1999 Oxfordshire Farming Study.