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YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE HERE
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The fundraising campaign is hosted at Darujme.cz.

We will use your contribution to purchase seedlings of fruit trees and bushes.

For example:
Walnut Mars – 10 EUR
Apple Rubinola – 20 EUR
Pear Red Clapp's Favorite + Cherry Rivan + Apricot Leskorka + Sea-buckthorn – 33 EUR
Mulberry + Cornelian Cherry Dogwood Lutea + Dotted Hawthorn Aurea + Pomegranate Rowan + Medlar + Sorb Tree – 65 EUR

Thanks to all contributors:
Vratislav Šlajer, Ludmila Jakubův, Filip Cenek, Kateřina Svatoňová, Diana Winklerová, Jitka Píchová, David Fesl, Lucie Kučová, Renata Zámečníková, Milada Souhradová, Helena Vágnerová, Barbora Ciprová, František Šeda, Lea Průchová, Zuzana Blochová, Katherine Kastner, Honza Černý, David Střeleček, Anetta Mona Chisa, Lenka Šmídová, Lucie Rosenfeldová, Kateřina Vaňková, Ruta Putramentaite, Alena Andress, Tereza Hejmová, Vít Havránek, Markus Selg, Petr Pinkas, Dita Lamačová, Petr Zubek, Tomáš Pazderka, Lucie Kotková, Jan Vaněk, Alexandra Vágnerová, Tomáš Pazderka, Daniel Hrabina, Michaela Burešová, Zuzana Janečková, Lenka Vítková

ABOUT THE PROJECT

WOODS – Community for Cultivation, Theory and Art is a space linking creation, research, agricultural work, activism, and rest. With a vision of sharing and communal development, a 2.8-hectare plot of forest and meadow was purchased for these goals in 2019 in the village of Hnátnice in the Orlické Mountains. The purpose of the community is to create a sustainable biodiverse forest amenable to a wide variety of life forms from microorganisms, bacteria, plants, mushrooms, and animals all the way to humans. A farm is gradually being created on the plot, as is a garden founded on permaculture principles and a year-long program of educational and cultural activities.

The project is actively responding to climate change and the accelerating processes associated with it: the degradation of agricultural and forest land and soil, growing drought, and the extinction of small animals. It is also responding to the need to maintain a healthy relationship between the land and those who use it. It is being implemented on the basis of permaculture principles; uses sustainable forms of agriculture, forestry, and water management; and covers the topics of migration, diet, psychology, health, the intelligence of animals, plants, and mushrooms, resistance, and sharing.

We would like to gradually change the ways in which the countryside is used for agriculture, forestry, and leisure activities, moving towards a more interconnected relationship between the land and the people in it. We want to share together new findings on sustainable agriculture and existence in the countryside and encourage the start of similar activities that could, in the future, confront the degradation, caused by monoculture agriculture of not just our rural areas but of the planet as well. In an era of increasing drought, it will also be necessary to reevaluate ways of handling the land and realize the consequences of soil erosion and the dying off of insects, birds, small mammals, and more—which will ultimately even harm the health of us humans. We also want to bring permaculture and ethical principles of land use to the artistic and cultural sphere and our whole lifestyle. By sharing and collaborating with local and artistic communities, we aim to fight against the loss of diversity of flora and fauna on the planet, in the soil, and in the gut. We aim to accomplish this through active care for the land, academic studies, and joint actions of all types and orientations, both for the community and for the public.

PROGRAM

FUTURE
– creating an edible forest under the direction of Denisa Tomášková, instructor at the Permaculture Academy, October 2020 – March 2021
– implementing permaculture design
– artistic and educational actions: residencies, symposia, permaculture courses, 5P permaculture working meetings, animal protection, a library

PREVIOUS
– The edible forest and water management, a permaculture course, May 18–19, 2019
– WE ARE WOODS: The Intelligence of Plants and Interspecies Communication, a symposium about the woods as a communicating and cooperating community of organisms of different species, July 26–28, 2019
– film WE ARE WOODS: The Intelligence of Plants and Interspecies Communication
– Course in Advanced Permaculture Design, June 19–23, 2020
– Resist Like Woods, a symposium focused on the possibility of defending the soil, soil and land communities, and civic activism in the era of climate emergency, July 31–August 2, 2020
– drilling a well and establishing a pasture for goats and sheep, June–July 2020
– 5P – Planting of trees and bushes in a swale, October 9–11, 2020
– film Resist Like Woods
– open rescue of animals, since 2018

COMMUNITY
The community project WOODS was initiated by Are and the Institute of Anxiety. Other contributors include artists, ecologists, activists, specialists from the Permaculture Academy, local residents, members of the association Žijeme spolu v Orlických horách (We Live Together in the Orlické Mountains), and organizations Bubahof and Ovenecka 33.

Current implementing team
Zuzana Blochová, Edith Jeřábková, Barbora Kleinhamplová, Nela Klajbanová, Eva Koťátková, Dita Lamačová, Tereza Porybná, Ida Taušlová

WOODS members
Terézia Belčáková, Václav Belčák, Jana Adamcová and Jakub Adamec, Lenka Vítková, Ondřej Vinš, Václav Girsa, Jiří Kovanda, David Fesl, Marie Lukáčová, Filip Kraus, Dominik Lang, Eva Koťátková, Anna Ročňová, Jan Boháč, Lucie Rosenfeldová, Matěj Pavlík, Jakub Červenka, Tereza Porybná, Borbarla Soos, Teresa Castro, Kateřina Svatoňová, Atanasios Iliopulos, Barbora Kleinhamplová, Vít Lesák, Adéla Sobotková, Noemi Purkrábková, Jiří Sirůček, David Střeleček, Denisa Langrová, Jonáš Richter, Ruta Putramentaite, Dita Lamačová, Nela Klajbanová, Markus Selg, Edith Jeřábková, Zuzana Blochová, Gabriel Baharlia, Mariana Serranová, Andrea Medunová and Marek Meduna, Pavlína Verbíková and Mirek Verbík, Marcela Musilová and Jiří Musil, Vojtěch Novák, Daniela and Linda Dostálková, Nadja Argyropoulou, Chris Vrettos, Iria Vrettou and Tassos Vrettos, Linda Hauerová, Táňa Nikulina, Kristina Fingerland, Olbram Pavlíček, Martin Zet, Markéta Lisá, Filip Cenek, Jan Kolský, Monika Krobová, Petr Vyhnálek, Denisa Tomášková, Nikolas Prokop, Jakob Ráček, Eliška Plechatová, Aliaksandra Yakubouskaya, Markéta Brandejsová, Matěj Verbík, Anetta Mona Chisa, Aleksandra Vajd, Adam Wlazel, Kateřina Vídenová, Tereza and Jaroslav Petruželka, Zdeněk Habarta, Dan Hrabina, Monika Štěpánová, Maja and Reuben Fowkes, Barbora Janečková, Roman Kašťák, Eva Jiřička, Lucie Fryčová, Lucie Doležalová, Lenka Kužvartová, Lukáš Hofmann, Matouš Lipus

WOODS is an open group of people. If you are interested in joining the community, contact us at les@are-events.org.

THANKS AND SUPPORT
Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, State Fund of Culture, GTL, Atanasios Iliopulos, SolidSun, Emblem Hotel

CONTACT
les@are-events.org
tel: +420 724 349 167 (Nela Klajbanová)
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WOODS – Community for Cultivation, Theory and Art
Forest and meadow plot between the villages of Hnátnice and Písečná, Orlické Mountains
Coordinates:
Meadow 50.027355, 16.462956
Forest 50.027306, 16.461111