PCD supports farmers to grow traditional crops and organises an exchange activity on seeds, in which farmers from Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and Guangxi gather to introduce their traditional crops seeds and exchange on knowledge of growing these crops. (Angus Lam/PCD)
Beijing Organic Farmers Market, a PCD partner, arranges farm visits for consumers to check out how crops are grown ecologically. (Beijing Organic Farmers Market)
PCD supports the education activities of urban farming in Beijing where children and adults are ploughing in the farm in spring.
PCD supports the education activities of urban farming in Beijing. Urban farmers delight in their bumper harvest.
Campus farming.
A group of students rejoice at their harvest of vegetables in the campus where they practice farming.
PCD adopts a programme of Ecovillage Design Education (EDE) which has been developed throughout a worldwide environmental movement to train our community facilitators. This is an eco-community built in England, named Findhorn Ecovillage, based on the EDE concept. (By the Findhorn Ecovillage)
PCD adopts a programme of Ecovillage Design Education (EDE) which has been developed throughout a worldwide environmental movement to train our community facilitators. This is a group photo of PCD staff and partners at the EDE training in Thailand.
During the three days from 17 to 19 October 2013, 120 CSA (Community-supported Agriculture) practitioners from Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong gather at the CSA Seminar to share their experience.
On the last day for the CSA (community supported agriculture) Seminar in 2013, participants sit on the lawn in bright sunshine to reflect on what they have learnt.
The rural returnee as well as PCD’s CSA intern Yao Huifeng chooses to return to his home village to engage in farming and community supported agriculture (CSA).
The rural returnee as well as PCD's CSA intern Yao Huifeng commits himself to ecological agriculture in which he raises ducks in his paddy field.
Youth facilitators from Mainland visit Taiwan to learn about community development.
CSA encourages urban rural interaction.
Farmers markets are regularly held in different locations in Beijing.
Second community bazaar on recycled daily items held at Duo Fu Xiang, one of the pilot communities that PCD promotes urban farming in Beijing.
Building a common picture of sustainable living at the local training workshop of EDE.
About 120 participants from Mainland, HK and Taiwan joining the CSA symposium.
Rural youths returning home is advocated in all PCD youth development programme as a way to rebuild vitality in rural China.
PCD supports balcony farming in four residential communities in Beijing. Members of one community start turning the public space in their residential community into a rooftop garden.
Community members in Beijing tending vegetables in their own pots as well as those grown in public space of the roof-top garden.
A full grown roof-top garden in summer in a Beijing community.
Harvesting time, sharing time. Some of the harvests are shared with ‘home-alone’ elderly residents.
As a performer of the Ecological Museum, Wang Caihin (middle) who is also an intern of a PCD-supported programme to conserve local culture, dresses up for traditional Yao dance to welcome visiting tourists.
A PCD intern of CSA Ou Shaomei learns hand-make soybean curds for sale in order to increase income of her CSA organization, Xiangshankeng.