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Nothing you see here is real, even though the conversion or the presented background story might be based historical facts. BEWARE!

Some background:

After the success of the Soviet Union’s first carrier ship, the Moskva Class (Projekt 1123, also called „Кондор“/„Kondor“) cruisers in the mid 1960s, the country became more ambitious. This resulted in Project 1153 Orel (Russian: Орёл, Eagle), a planned 1970s-era Soviet program to give the Soviet Navy a true blue water aviation capability. Project Orel would have resulted in a program very similar to the aircraft carriers available to the U.S. Navy. The ship would have been about 75-80,000 tons displacement, with a nuclear power plant and carried about 70 aircraft launched via steam catapults – the first Soviet aircraft carrier that would be able to deploy fixed-wing aircraft.

Beyond this core capability, the Orel carrier was designed with a large offensive capability with the ship mounts including 24 vertical launch tubes for anti-ship cruise missiles. In the USSR it was actually classified as the "large cruiser with aircraft armament".

Furthermore, carrier Project 1153 was cancelled in October 1978 as being too expensive, and a program for a smaller ship called Project 11435, more V/STOL-aircraft-oriented, was developed instead; in its initial stage, a version of 65,000 tons and 52 aircraft was proposed, but eventually an even smaller ship was built in the form of the Kuznetsov-class aircraft carriers in 1985, outfitted with a 12-degree ski-jump bow flight deck instead of using complex aircraft catapults. This CTOL carrier was finally equipped with navalized Su-33, MiG-29 and Su-25 aircraft – and the MiG-SK paved the early way to these shipboard fighters, especially the MiG-29K.

General characteristics:

Crew: One

Length: 13.28 m (43 ft 6 in)

Wingspan: 10.39 m (34 ft)

Height: 3.9 m (12 ft 10 in)

Wing area: 22.6 m² (242.5 ft²)

Empty weight: 5.172 kg (11,392 lb)

Max. take-off weight: 7,560 kg (16,632 lb)

Powerplant:

2× Sorokin R3M-28 turbojets afterburning turbojets, rated at 33.8 kN (7,605 lbf) each

Performance:

Maximum speed: 1,145 km/h (618 knots, 711 mph) at 3,000 m (10,000 ft)

Range: 2,060 km (1,111 nmi, 1,280 mi) with drop tanks

Service ceiling: 17,500 m (57,400 ft)

Rate of climb: 180 m/s (35,425 ft/min)

Wing loading: 302.4 kg/m² (61.6 lb/ft²)

Thrust/weight: 0.86

Armament:

2x 30 mm NR-30 cannons in the wing roots with 75 RPG

4x underwing pylons, with a maximum load of 1.000 kg (2.205 lb)

The kit and its assembly:

This kitbash creation was spawned by thoughts concerning the Soviet Naval Aviation and its lack of CTOL aircraft carriers until the 1980ies and kicked-off by a CG rendition of a navalized MiG-17 from fellow member SPINNERS at whatifmodelers.com, posted a couple of months ago. I liked this idea, and at first I wanted to convert a MiG-17 with a solid nose as a dedicated carrier aircraft. But the more I thought about it and did historic research, the less probable this concept appeared to me: the MiG-17 was simply too old to match Soviet plans for a carrier ship, at least with the real world as reference.

A plausible alternative was the MiG-19, esp. with its twin-engine layout, even though the highly swept wings and the associated high start and landing speeds would be rather inappropriate for a shipborne fighter. Anyway, a MiG-21 was even less suitable, and I eventually took the Farmer as conversion basis, since it would also fit into the historic time frame between the late 60ies and the mid-70ies.

In this case, the basis is a Plastyk MiG-19 kit, one of the many Eastern European re-incarnations of the vintage KP kit. This cheap re-issue became a positive surprise, because any former raised panel and rivet details have disappeared and were replaced with sound, recessed engravings. The kit is still a bit clumsy, the walls are very thick (esp. the canopy – maybe 2mm!), but IMHO it’s a considerable improvement with acceptable fit, even though there are some sink holes and some nasty surprises (in my case, for instance, the stabilizer fins would not match with the rear fuselage at all, and you basically need putty everywhere).

Not much from the Plastyk kit was taken over, though: only the fuselage’s rear two-thirds were used, some landing gear parts as well as fin and the horizontal stabilizers. The latter were heavily modified and reduced in sweep in order to match new wings from a Hobby Boss MiG-15 (the parts were cut into three pieces each and then set back together again).

Furthermore, the complete front section from a Novo Supermarine Attacker was transplanted, because its short nose and the high cockpit are perfect parts for a carrier aircraft. The Attacker’s front end, including the air intakes, fits almost perfectly onto the round MiG-19 forward fuselage, only little body work was necessary. A complete cockpit tub and a new seat were implanted, as well as a front landing gear well and walls inside of the (otherwise empty) air intakes. The jet exhausts were drilled open, too, and afterburner dummies added. Simple jobs.

On the other side, the wings were trickier than expected. The MiG-19 kit comes with voluminous and massive wing root fairings, probably aerodynamic bodies for some area-ruling. I decided to keep them, but this caused some unexpected troubles…

The MiG-15 wings’ position, considerably further back due to the reduced sweep angle, was deduced from the relative MiG-19’s landing gear position. A lot of sculpting and body work followed, and after the wings were finally in place I recognized that the aforementioned, thick wing root fairings had reduced the wing sweep – basically not a bad thing, but with the inconvenient side effect that the original wing MiG-15 fences were not parallel to the fuselage anymore, looking rather awkward! What to do? Grrrr…. I could not leave it that way, so I scraped them away and replaced with them with four scratched substitutes (from styrene profiles), moving the outer pair towards the wing folding mechanism.

Under the wings, four new pylons were added (two from an IAI Kfir, two from a Su-22) and the ordnance gathered from the scrap box – bombs and rocket pods formerly belonged to a Kangnam/Revell Yak-38.

The landing gear was raised by ~2mm for a higher stance on the ground. The original, thick central fin was reduced in length, so that it could become a plausible attachment point for an arrester hook (also from the spares box), and a pair of splayed stabilizer fins was added as a compensation. Finally, some of the OOB air scoops were placed all round the hull and some pitots, antennae and a gun camera fairing added.

Painting and markings:

This whif was to look naval at first sight, so I referred to the early Yak-38 VTOL aircraft and their rather minimalistic paint scheme in an overall dull blue. The green underside, seen on many service aircraft, was AFAIK a (later) protective coating – an obsolete detail for a CTOL aircraft.

Hence, all upper surfaces and the fuselage were painted in a uniform “Field Blue” (Tamiya XF-50). It’s a bit dark, but I have used this unique, petrol blue tone many moons ago on a real world Kangnam Forger where it looks pretty good, and in this case the surface was furthermore shaded with Humbrol 96 and 126 after a black in wash.

For some contrast I painted the undersides of the wings and stabilizers as well as a fuselage section between the wings in a pale grey (Humbrol 167), seen on one of the Yak-38 prototypes. Not very obvious, but at least the aircraft did not end up in a boring, uniform color.

The interior was painted in blue-gray (PRU Blue, shaded with Humbrol 87) while the landing gear wells became Aluminum (Humbrol 56). The wheel discs became bright green, just in order to keep in style and as a colorful contrast, and some di-electric panels and covers became very light grey or bright green. For some color contrast, the anti-flutter weight tips on the stabilizers as well as the pylons’ front ends were painted bright red.

The markings/decals reflect the early Soviet Navy style, with simple Red Stars, large yellow tactical codes and some high contrast warning stencils, taken from the remains of a Yak-38 sheet (American Revell re-release of the Kangnam kit).

Finally, after some soot stains with graphite around the gun muzzles and the air bleed doors, the kit was sealed with a coat of semi-matt acrylic varnish and some matt accents (anti-glare panel, radomes).

A simple idea that turned out to be more complex than expected, due to the wing fence troubles. But I am happy that the Attacker nose could be so easily transplanted, it changes the MiG-19’s look considerably, as well as the wings with (much) less sweep angle.

The aircraft looks familiar, but you only recognize at second glance that it is more than just a MiG-19 with a solid nose. The thing looks pretty retro, reminds me a bit of the Supermarine Scimitar (dunno?), and IMHO it appears more Chinese than Soviet (maybe because the layout reminds a lot of the Q-5 fighter bomber)? It could even, with appropriate markings, be a Luft ’46 design?

HENRY HOLLAND was born on February 12, 1875 at Durham, England, in the home of his Grandfather Tristram, residentiary Canon of Durham. On the paternal side of his family there were also close ties with the Church of England, his father being a parish priest and his father before him Vicar of Walmer Beach and chaplain to the Duke of Wellington. An aunt, Katie Tristram, who went to Japan as an educational missionary, was the first family link with the mission field.

The dominant influence of his life was his energetic mother, whom he remembers as always on the lookout for a way to help others. It was genial and hospitable Canon Tristram's zest for life, interest

in people and moral courage that also set for the boy a pattern of character to follow. He took example, too, from his father's visits and kindness as a parish priest to every family in the community, whether Churchmen or not.

His travels began in infancy when he was taken to Riga, Latvia, where his father served as English chaplain until the boy was five. The father's next appointment to the parish of Cornhill in north Northumberland brought the family back to the seat of three generations of forebears on his mother's side. The Holland home was on the banks of the Tweed and, though considered delicate, the boy reveled in the fishing, riding, and hunting to hounds afforded by the country life. Later, this experience was to serve him well when he would make arduous journeys to remote parts of Baluchistan on camel or pony.

Tutored by his father and two maiden aunts until he was 11, he went to Durham School for one term and then on to his uncle's school, Loretto, near Edinburgh. Training there was in a Spartan tradition, with high educational standards, daily exercise and much time spent in the open air. His son RONALD also attended this school and three grandsons have followed.

At the end of his last term at Loretto, HENRY went by his parents' arrangement but against his will to a two weeks summer camp instituted to bring the claims of Christ before public school boys. The camp provided a full schedule of exercise and each evening ended with an appeal to the boys to give their lives to His service. He resisted until the last evening before making the decision that revolutionized his life.

Deciding to serve God as a doctor, he enrolled at Edinburgh in 1894 for medical training. Prompted by the example of men he came to know who had chosen a missionary vocation, he joined the Student Volunteer Missionary Union, pledging himself to become a missionary doctor. This step, taken toward the end of his undergraduate study, gave his life a new sense of drive and direction. Advised to interrupt the first year of his medical course after several prolonged attacks of influenza, he had spent a six weeks holiday on the Continent when a Liverpool merchant invited him as a traveling companion on a trip to the United States. Two months later, when his benefactor offered to make him his U.S. representative at what seemed to the college student a staggering sum, he declined the offer. Returning to the University, he entered wholeheartedly into missionary activities and by severe self-discipline was able to graduate in 1899, passing among the first eight, with distinction in both second and final examinations.

The next seven months he spent visiting various colleges and universities in Great Britain and Ireland as Traveling Secretary of the Student Volunteer Mission, a position his elder brother had held when he left Oxford. Professionally, he was later to feel acutely his lack of practical experience on a hospital staff, and, when his two sons decided to join him on the Frontier, they took hospital appointments in England before going abroad.

Dr. HOLLAND had offered his services to the Church Missionary Society shortly after graduation and, in March 1900, still with four months left of his contract as Traveling Secretary, he was called to Quetta, on the remote North-West Frontier of India, to take the place of the doctor shortly going on leave. He had three weeks to prepare for his journey to a place he had never heard of.

Traveling by cramped third class overland to Marseilles, he continued on by sea in an airless lower berth, such as was allotted to second class passengers at the turn of the century. A typhoid inoculation beyond Port Said made him severely ill, and he suffered a virulent attack of the fever seven months after reaching Quetta. From Karachi, he completed the last 400 miles by train, climbing from the dust-thickened air over the Sind desert and plains, through the desolate Baluchistan hills to the upland plateau where Quetta stands, ringed by towering peaks, 5,500 feet above sea level. As he left the plains he began to see large, fierce-looking tribesmen who seemed a piece with the harsh surroundings. His first sight of the city-oasis that was to be his home was memorable—arriving on the 6th of May, the weary traveler delighted in the greenness and profusion of blooming roses.

The medical mission at Quetta, established 14 years earlier, was one of a chain of four along the North-West Frontier originally encouraged by British army and political officers to help keep peace among the tribesmen as well as treat their physical ills. To the first outpatient building constructed in 1889, had been added four wards with 28 beds for inpatients, one operating room and a dark room for ophthalmoscopic work. It was a small but brave assertion of Christian care and compassion in the heart of a hostile land, for killing an infidel as a way to attain Paradise was common practice among fanatical Muslims in those early days.

The Frontier it served was a bleak and isolated land of rugged mountains and great stretches of arid, rocky plains. Apart from the railway to Quetta, there were few roads and only rough trails across the wastelands and through the passes. Excepting the British garrison and government officers at Quetta and the few other stations, the inhabitants were mostly scattered tribespeople who changed their dwellings with the season. Separated by deserts and mountain ranges, the various tribes seldom mixed together. Education in a formal sense was unknown, and there was little desire for schooling among those living in or near the Frontier stations to whom it was available.

Dr. HOLLAND found the hospital in full swing; spring and autumn were the busiest, when caravans could move without hindrance of snow and freezing temperatures or the intolerable summer heat. Among the patients were small-statured Brahui, of supposed Dravidian stock, who came in droves after their winter sojourn to the plains south of Sibi on their way back to the uplands. Tall, hardy Pathans, the Afghan tribes living on the then British side of the border, came down from the mountains to the north. A Pushtu-speaking Semitic people, they claimed descent from the 10 lost tribes of Israel. Baluchi arrived as the weather warmed, from the southern foothills and plains running east from Sibi to the Punjabi frontier. Also a Semitic people and often of fine physique, their language was a form of Persian. Journeying up from the plains were Sindhis and Punjabis.

The doctor was not put off by the Muslim fanaticism, blood feuding and raiding that characterized a part of the tribesmen's way of life. Seeing their strength in adversity and the obvious need for medical attention, he quickly took up the challenge of adjusting to life in entirely strange surroundings.

Work for the young medical graduate began at once. Dysentery and malaria were common ills. Surgical needs were great though limited facilities permitted treatment mostly of hemorrhoids, tubercular glands and cataracts. As he had not had hospital experience, he spent several hours each day working with the doctor he was soon to replace, learning surgical technique. Otherwise learning by doing, he was soon administering treatment for all manner of ailments. Later, he was able to widen his knowledge through visits to hospitals in Kashmir, the Punjab and Sind.

By adhering to a rigorous daily regimen of work and study, he passed examinations in Urdu, Persian and Pushtu and mastered the rudiments of Brahui, Baluchi, Punjabi and Sindhi. Whenever the hospital work slackened, the adventurous doctor made treks into the outlying countryside, sometimes hunting and always learning more about the lives of the tribespeople and their medical needs. Cataracts and eye infections were endemic to the area, induced by glaring heat, searing winds, dust, flies, vitamin deficiency in the diet and calcium-laden water. Perhaps because the plight of the blind touched him most, he developed a special talent for eye surgery. On his return to Quetta in 1907, after a serious illness had necessitated an extended leave, he was given charge of the medical mission.

In the autumn of 1909, a wealthy Hindu merchant and philanthropist invited Dr. HOLLAND to spend the winter weeks treating patients at Shikarpur, in North Sind, offering to cover all expenses. The doctor and his two colleagues refused payment for their services, but agreed to return if the merchant would provide a building for their operative work. The small hospital that was ready the following year has now grown into one of the largest eye clinics in the world, able to care for 600 patients at a time. Though some other surgical cases are treated, the main work is ophthalmic.

Since 1920, some 150 eye specialists have come from India, Pakistan, the Continent, the United Kingdom and the United States to observe and work at Shikarpur. They pay their own traveling expenses and board and room for the privilege of working there. In a mutually beneficial exchange, the visiting doctors have brought the latest developments in surgical technique and themselves had valuable operative experience, performing up to 200 cataract operations in a month's stay, whereas two or three a week would be the average in most clinics elsewhere. Other medical missionaries also have come each year to join in the work. This outside help has meant that four doctors could each operate six hours a day. With such teamwork, as many as 3,000 operations have been performed during one two-month season at Shikarpur, of which 1,400 were for cataracts.

A second clinic was later established at Khairpur, also in North Sind, and for a time a clinic was operated for a few weeks each year in Karachi under the auspices of the Poor Patients' Relief Society. As other doctors joined the mission, stations were set up in the surrounding countryside to which medical and nursing staff were regularly assigned.

The main base was still Quetta, and the hospital there grew steadily, chiefly due to the increase of eye work. Facilities were better adapted to local custom with the addition of wards where patients could be accompanied by relatives with cooking pots. Between 1904 and 1930, 14 such wards were built for patients who would rather pay a rupee a day than go into a public ward; all were the gifts of grateful patients. Similar accommodations for very poor families were provided free. Patients often came from long distances, and to have their relatives with them during convalescence with a family camel, donkey or goat in the courtyard was a natural arrangement they appreciated.

The tradition of service was strengthened at Quetta by the building of a Christian nursing profession and the institution, in 1926, of a full-fledged training program for male nurses. From 1931, the mission hospital also trained a succession of dispensers. An X-ray unit had been purchased, in 1925, with donations from local sirdars and chieftains. By 1934, the number of beds had been increased to 124 and that year inpatients numbered 3,447 and major operations totalled 3,760. With the exercise of much faith and patience in a Muslim environment, old suspicion and distrust had given way to confidence, notably regarding surgery.

All of this painstakingly built physical plant was destroyed, in May 1935, when a disastrous earthquake laid Quetta in ruins, killing some 25,000 people in the city and environs. After five days in a hospital recuperating from a back injury sustained when he was pinned under falling beams, Dr. HOLLAND was appointed Chief Medical Officer of Baluchistan, in charge of rescue work, making provision for casualties and prevention of epidemics. This task completed, the intrepid doctor then faced the problem of reconstruction. "Striking while the iron was hot," he made a trip to England to raise funds. Other support for the Rebuilding Fund came from not then partitioned India. Temporary structures were in operation in 1936 and two years later the first permanent buildings went up. The new hospital was completed on the same site on May 6, 1940, 40 years from the day of his first arrival at Quetta.

In 1936, the doctor had been made a Knight-Bachelor in recognition of the work of the mission hospital and his contribution to ophthalmology. He had previously received the decoration of the Kaiser-i-Hind gold medal and bar and, in 1929, the Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (C.I.E.) in tribute of his service to the tribespeople of Baluchistan.

His medical work on the Frontier meanwhile was becoming a family affair. Effie Tunbridge, the second nursing sister to join the Quetta mission became Dr. HOLLAND's wife four years later in 1910. Their elder son, Harry, joined his father in 1935. The second son, RONALD, born in Quetta in 1914, followed suit in 1940, after completing his medical training at Edinburgh. Marriage interrupted the plans of their daughter, Esme, also to serve on the Frontier. RONALD's wife, Joan, has carried on as a nurse, keeping hospital accounts and becoming an expert anesthetist though, stricken with paralytic polio a year after their marriage in 1940, she has the full use of only one arm and is unable to walk. When malaria, contracted marching through the Burma jungle in wartime, continued to undermine his health, Harry returned to England and, in 1953, started the Oversea Service, a pioneer venture under the auspices of the British Council of Churches and the Conference of British Missionary Societies to spread a sense of Christian responsibility among laymen going to assignments abroad. RONALD has taken his father's place in charge of the medical mission work in Pakistan. Excelling also in general surgery, he is recognized as the most skillful ophthalmic surgeon of the family. He has learned the many languages of Baluchistan and otherwise has carried on unbroken his father's legacy of compassionate service. Though even more patients than in his father's time are treated during the crowded winter months at Shikarpur and Khairpur and during the spring and autumn at Quetta, Dr. RONALD HOLLAND continues to visit the outlying areas. Setting up mobile clinics along the way he, too, performs delicate eye operations and treats assorted other ailments for poor tribespeople to whom no other help is available.

In treating the thousands who come each year to their hospitals and clinics the HOLLANDS developed mass operative techniques that have relevance for surgeons elsewhere who may be called upon to meet large-scale disasters. Where it was no uncommon experience to see 200 to 300 outpatients a day, the choice was made to forego elaborate treatment for a few and take care of as many as possible. Both father and son have done up to 70 cataract operations a day. Records were not as detailed as they would like, but each patient was recorded as to diagnosis, treatment, operation, operator, complications and result. Methods were simplified to the extreme, but the essential preoperative technique has been maintained and postoperative care adapted to the resources available and the mores of the people, proving, for example, that a cataract case can move about within hours after surgery without harmful effect. Despite severe handicaps, these careful adjustments to field conditions have produced excellent results. Though the Shikarpur clinic operates only two months each year, it can record more than 150,000 eye operations, including 80,000 cataract extractions of which 97 per cent have proved successful.

Feeling that the scientific part of their work should be brought before the profession, both Sir HENRY and Dr. RONALD HOLLAND have contributed articles to leading medical journals in India, Britain and the United States and read papers at the Oxford Ophthalmic Congress.

Following partition in 1947, Quetta and Shikarpur fell within the borders of West Pakistan. The hospitals helped through the difficult period of adjustment and now are continuing their good work. Beside the goodwill among the people and the tribal chieftains, based on trust, has been a growing appreciation of the Christian qualities of concern and integrity for which the hospitals have stood through the years.

Sir HENRY's retirement, due according to the rules of his mission society in 1940, was postponed for the duration of World War II and again delayed until conditions were settled enough for him to hand over to his sons and his Pakistani Christian assistant. In those postwar years, he served on Government Commissions, on Church and Mission councils and committees, sharing in the planning of medical policy both for the Church and the Government of India.

Finally leaving active service in March 1948, he was promptly called back again to treat the King of Afghanistan. Two years later and until his own eyesight began to fail in 1956, grateful tribesmen, led by a Baluch chief, made up a purse to pay his traveling expenses for an annual visit to his hospitals. During the remainder of those years, he traversed England raising funds, recruiting missionaries and encouraging young people to think less of themselves and more of service to others. Now 85, he came to Pakistan again this year to celebrate his golden jubilee among his beloved tribespeople.

Simple and unassuming in manner, this father and son bely their splendid record as two of the world's foremost eye surgeons. Both have been offered professional opportunities with high standing and handsome stipends but have chosen to devote their skills as medical missionaries among an isolated people. Of those who come to work or be treated at their hospitals, no question is asked as to their faith, but the doctors' own lives are a continual Christian challenge to all who know them.

Each day's work is preceded by prayer. In operating for hours on end visitors, too, have sensed the therapeutic value of the spiritual atmosphere thus created. To the HOLLANDS, prayer and healing go together, for healing to them "speaks" the same message as Christ's teaching—the love of God in whose sight every individual is important.

Reus, 6 d'octubre de 2012

CAPTION: "Community gardeners working the Keya Wakpala Garden, part of the Sicangu Community Development Corporation (CDC) Food Sovereignty Initiative."

NRCS ARTICLE 4/2020: There’s a sense of pride that comes with doing something for yourself, and growing food is a major part of being self-sustaining, healthy and whole.

A one-acre community garden on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in south-central South Dakota is connecting tribal members with the land, with food, and with their past.

“It’s about food sovereignty. It’s about having the choice of where and how you get your food, knowing how to feed yourself,” said Matte Wilson. “If that grocery store wasn’t here, would you know how to feed yourself and your family?”

Born and raised on the Rosebud Indian Reservation, Wilson is now director of the recently re-branded Sicangu Community Development Corporation (CDC) Food Sovereignty Initiative. One of its major projects is the Keya Wakpala Garden. Since moving back home in 2018, food sovereignty has played a major part of Wilson’s life.

“It is something that really excites me, something I could see myself doing for the rest of my life,” he said.

Vegetable Harvest on table

The food sovereignty movement has gained significant momentum throughout the country in recent years and is largely being led by indigenous communities. According to Wilson, you don’t have to be indigenous to appreciate delicious, locally grown foods.

“Food has the power to bring people together – it’s always been an essential part of all of our social interactions, whether or not you are Lakota,” he said.

For Keya Wakpala garden manager Ed Her Many Horses, the garden and learning how to grow food has been nothing short of trans-formative.

“It’s impacted me in a lot of different ways,” he said. “It helped give me a reason to get up in the morning – it still does. There is so much to appreciate in the garden.”

But it’s more than food, he’s found. Caring for a garden fosters community. The Keya Wakpala Garden is a place where interns, volunteers, community members and children come together to work, and they take pride in the outcome.

“It’s a beacon of hope, I think,” Her Many Horses said.

The Boys and Girls Club brings kids to the garden where they can plant, pick vegetables and even harvest indigenous foods such as ceyaka, wild mint, in the nearby wetlands. They learn to identify foods as they’re grown and harvested, and follow up field work with cooking sessions. Starting with young kids, the project aims to make gardening and producing food something that’s second nature – something they’re able to pass on to future generations.

Learning by doing is key, according to Wilson.

“When they are able to see it in person and participate in the process, it is really powerful. It makes people appreciate food and agriculture more,” he said.

Garden Row signs in lakota

Foster Cournoyer-Hogan is a student at Stanford University from the Rosebud Indian Reservation who interned for the summer at the Keya Wakpala Garden. His additions to the garden plot included the signs that identified the plants with Lakota words. There was wagmu (squash), tinpsilazizi (carrots), phangi sasa (beets) and mastincatawote (lettuce).

Using the Lakota language is a way to stay connected to traditional culture. That’s especially important when children and elders visit the garden, he said.

Along with strengthening connections to culture and community, the garden is helping solve another issue on the reservation – addressing health challenges. Diabetes and diet related illness is high on the Rosebud Indian Reservation, but the produce from the garden gives people access to nourishing food.

“Our food is everything,” Cournoyer-Hogan said.

“Food is medicine,” added Wilson: “The way we treat our garden, the way we treat the land is how we treat ourselves … we take care of the land, and it takes care of us.”

The group has some expert resources when it comes to taking care of the land and the plants. Master Gardeners and university extension experts have volunteered their time and advice, and the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) provides support and funding through soil health programs.

The mission of NRCS is “helping people help the land.” That land usually refers to range land and farm acres, but the same programs and principles can apply to community gardens.

“We're trying to get people together to go back to some of the things that were important years ago to our people for self-sustainability,” said Mary Scott, a Rosebud Indian Reservation member and tribal liaison with NRCS.

Student gardner holding out herbs for the camera

The reservation’s growing environment presents some significant challenges. The garden site had been a conventional field, growing sunflowers, corn, soybeans and wheat. The heavy clay soils made it difficult to hold enough water for the garden, especially given the sloping hillside where it sits. Long, hot days would burn up the plants one day, and they next they’d be hit by torrential downpours, hail and wind.

“There are a lot of things outside of our control,” said Her Many Horses, “and that can be tough in such an extreme weather environment”

Rather than give up, however, the team has simply learned to adapt and make the most of what they have.

“We have to be really strategic about how we plan out our year to make the most of this short window,” Wilson said. “We have branched into utilizing some year-round growing structures to expand our season.”

The garden is tended with organic methods, using fish emulsion and compost for fertilizer. Local ranchers have donated hay bales – the more beaten-up and weather-worn the better. As ground cover, they help with weed control. Adding mulch or organic matter has helped break up the hard, clay soil and has been a huge asset for moisture retention as well.

We’re using a regenerative approach to agriculture,” said Her Many Horses. “We’re always trying to give back to our soil.

The garden also incorporates time-honored growing techniques of the tribal community. Produce is grown with the three sister’s method – beans, corn and squash grow in rows and benefit from one another.

“Beans help fertilize the soil by providing nitrogen,” Wilson explained. “The corn, when it grows up the stalk, the beans are able to wrap around the stalk, and the squash actually helps keep out pests and other weeds.”

7 workers talking in the garden

It’s one of many ways the garden is bringing the community back to its roots. It also brings youth and elders together, sharing a positive outlook while producing something for the whole community. It connects people with land and community, giving them knowledge to pass along wherever they go.

Sharing knowledge is a big part of the project, Scott said, because it’s how cultures and traditions are kept alive.

“Growing our own produce is very important, so that this community can become self-sustaining, not only as a people, but as a tribe,” she said.

The ultimate goal is to completely change the food system on the Rosebud Indian Reservation.

“My vision is that our community becomes a food center where we have restaurants and food trucks sourcing their foods locally,” Wilson said, “and the garden is the first step to helping change our community mindset about food.”

But it goes even deeper than that.

“I hope that our community can be healthy and happy, that we can be sovereign,” said Her Many Horses. “And for us, that starts with everyone knowing where their food comes from.”

- Written by Janelle Atyeo

This is what you do if you blow an engine in the middle of nowhere.

I asked the owner if he had ever taken an engine apart before. “No, I’m learning by doing.” (loose translation)

Pretty sure I’d call AAA.

Cambodians are the ultimate in resource and creativity.

There’s a sense of pride that comes with doing something for yourself, and growing food is a major part of being self-sustaining, healthy and whole.

A one-acre community garden on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in south-central South Dakota is connecting tribal members with the land, with food, and with their past.

“It’s about food sovereignty. It’s about having the choice of where and how you get your food, knowing how to feed yourself,” said Matte Wilson. “If that grocery store wasn’t here, would you know how to feed yourself and your family?”

Born and raised on the Rosebud Indian Reservation, Wilson is now director of the recently re-branded Sicangu Community Development Corporation (CDC) Food Sovereignty Initiative. One of its major projects is the Keya Wakpala Garden. Since moving back home in 2018, food sovereignty has played a major part of Wilson’s life.

“It is something that really excites me, something I could see myself doing for the rest of my life,” he said.

Vegetable Harvest on table

The food sovereignty movement has gained significant momentum throughout the country in recent years and is largely being led by indigenous communities. According to Wilson, you don’t have to be indigenous to appreciate delicious, locally grown foods.

“Food has the power to bring people together – it’s always been an essential part of all of our social interactions, whether or not you are Lakota,” he said.

For Keya Wakpala garden manager Ed Her Many Horses, the garden and learning how to grow food has been nothing short of trans-formative.

“It’s impacted me in a lot of different ways,” he said. “It helped give me a reason to get up in the morning – it still does. There is so much to appreciate in the garden.”

But it’s more than food, he’s found. Caring for a garden fosters community. The Keya Wakpala Garden is a place where interns, volunteers, community members and children come together to work, and they take pride in the outcome.

“It’s a beacon of hope, I think,” Her Many Horses said.

The Boys and Girls Club brings kids to the garden where they can plant, pick vegetables and even harvest indigenous foods such as ceyaka, wild mint, in the nearby wetlands. They learn to identify foods as they’re grown and harvested, and follow up field work with cooking sessions. Starting with young kids, the project aims to make gardening and producing food something that’s second nature – something they’re able to pass on to future generations.

Learning by doing is key, according to Wilson.

“When they are able to see it in person and participate in the process, it is really powerful. It makes people appreciate food and agriculture more,” he said.

Garden Row signs in lakota

Foster Cournoyer-Hogan is a student at Stanford University from the Rosebud Indian Reservation who interned for the summer at the Keya Wakpala Garden. His additions to the garden plot included the signs that identified the plants with Lakota words. There was wagmu (squash), tinpsilazizi (carrots), phangi sasa (beets) and mastincatawote (lettuce).

Using the Lakota language is a way to stay connected to traditional culture. That’s especially important when children and elders visit the garden, he said.

Along with strengthening connections to culture and community, the garden is helping solve another issue on the reservation – addressing health challenges. Diabetes and diet related illness is high on the Rosebud Indian Reservation, but the produce from the garden gives people access to nourishing food.

“Our food is everything,” Cournoyer-Hogan said.

“Food is medicine,” added Wilson: “The way we treat our garden, the way we treat the land is how we treat ourselves … we take care of the land, and it takes care of us.”

The group has some expert resources when it comes to taking care of the land and the plants. Master Gardeners and university extension experts have volunteered their time and advice, and the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) provides support and funding through soil health programs.

The mission of NRCS is “helping people help the land.” That land usually refers to range land and farm acres, but the same programs and principles can apply to community gardens.

“We're trying to get people together to go back to some of the things that were important years ago to our people for self-sustainability,” said Mary Scott, a Rosebud Indian Reservation member and tribal liaison with NRCS.

Student gardner holding out herbs for the camera

The reservation’s growing environment presents some significant challenges. The garden site had been a conventional field, growing sunflowers, corn, soybeans and wheat. The heavy clay soils made it difficult to hold enough water for the garden, especially given the sloping hillside where it sits. Long, hot days would burn up the plants one day, and they next they’d be hit by torrential downpours, hail and wind.

“There are a lot of things outside of our control,” said Her Many Horses, “and that can be tough in such an extreme weather environment”

Rather than give up, however, the team has simply learned to adapt and make the most of what they have.

“We have to be really strategic about how we plan out our year to make the most of this short window,” Wilson said. “We have branched into utilizing some year-round growing structures to expand our season.”

The garden is tended with organic methods, using fish emulsion and compost for fertilizer. Local ranchers have donated hay bales – the more beaten-up and weather-worn the better. As ground cover, they help with weed control. Adding mulch or organic matter has helped break up the hard, clay soil and has been a huge asset for moisture retention as well.

We’re using a regenerative approach to agriculture,” said Her Many Horses. “We’re always trying to give back to our soil.

The garden also incorporates time-honored growing techniques of the tribal community. Produce is grown with the three sister’s method – beans, corn and squash grow in rows and benefit from one another.

“Beans help fertilize the soil by providing nitrogen,” Wilson explained. “The corn, when it grows up the stalk, the beans are able to wrap around the stalk, and the squash actually helps keep out pests and other weeds.”

7 workers talking in the garden

It’s one of many ways the garden is bringing the community back to its roots. It also brings youth and elders together, sharing a positive outlook while producing something for the whole community. It connects people with land and community, giving them knowledge to pass along wherever they go.

Sharing knowledge is a big part of the project, Scott said, because it’s how cultures and traditions are kept alive.

“Growing our own produce is very important, so that this community can become self-sustaining, not only as a people, but as a tribe,” she said.

The ultimate goal is to completely change the food system on the Rosebud Indian Reservation.

“My vision is that our community becomes a food center where we have restaurants and food trucks sourcing their foods locally,” Wilson said, “and the garden is the first step to helping change our community mindset about food.”

But it goes even deeper than that.

“I hope that our community can be healthy and happy, that we can be sovereign,” said Her Many Horses. “And for us, that starts with everyone knowing where their food comes from.”

- Written by Janelle Atyeo

CAPTION: "Signs in the Lakota language identifying plants, enriching connection to traditional culture."

NRCS ARTICLE 4/2020: There’s a sense of pride that comes with doing something for yourself, and growing food is a major part of being self-sustaining, healthy and whole.

A one-acre community garden on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in south-central South Dakota is connecting tribal members with the land, with food, and with their past.

“It’s about food sovereignty. It’s about having the choice of where and how you get your food, knowing how to feed yourself,” said Matte Wilson. “If that grocery store wasn’t here, would you know how to feed yourself and your family?”

Born and raised on the Rosebud Indian Reservation, Wilson is now director of the recently re-branded Sicangu Community Development Corporation (CDC) Food Sovereignty Initiative. One of its major projects is the Keya Wakpala Garden. Since moving back home in 2018, food sovereignty has played a major part of Wilson’s life.

“It is something that really excites me, something I could see myself doing for the rest of my life,” he said.

Vegetable Harvest on table

The food sovereignty movement has gained significant momentum throughout the country in recent years and is largely being led by indigenous communities. According to Wilson, you don’t have to be indigenous to appreciate delicious, locally grown foods.

“Food has the power to bring people together – it’s always been an essential part of all of our social interactions, whether or not you are Lakota,” he said.

For Keya Wakpala garden manager Ed Her Many Horses, the garden and learning how to grow food has been nothing short of trans-formative.

“It’s impacted me in a lot of different ways,” he said. “It helped give me a reason to get up in the morning – it still does. There is so much to appreciate in the garden.”

But it’s more than food, he’s found. Caring for a garden fosters community. The Keya Wakpala Garden is a place where interns, volunteers, community members and children come together to work, and they take pride in the outcome.

“It’s a beacon of hope, I think,” Her Many Horses said.

The Boys and Girls Club brings kids to the garden where they can plant, pick vegetables and even harvest indigenous foods such as ceyaka, wild mint, in the nearby wetlands. They learn to identify foods as they’re grown and harvested, and follow up field work with cooking sessions. Starting with young kids, the project aims to make gardening and producing food something that’s second nature – something they’re able to pass on to future generations.

Learning by doing is key, according to Wilson.

“When they are able to see it in person and participate in the process, it is really powerful. It makes people appreciate food and agriculture more,” he said.

Garden Row signs in lakota

Foster Cournoyer-Hogan is a student at Stanford University from the Rosebud Indian Reservation who interned for the summer at the Keya Wakpala Garden. His additions to the garden plot included the signs that identified the plants with Lakota words. There was wagmu (squash), tinpsilazizi (carrots), phangi sasa (beets) and mastincatawote (lettuce).

Using the Lakota language is a way to stay connected to traditional culture. That’s especially important when children and elders visit the garden, he said.

Along with strengthening connections to culture and community, the garden is helping solve another issue on the reservation – addressing health challenges. Diabetes and diet related illness is high on the Rosebud Indian Reservation, but the produce from the garden gives people access to nourishing food.

“Our food is everything,” Cournoyer-Hogan said.

“Food is medicine,” added Wilson: “The way we treat our garden, the way we treat the land is how we treat ourselves … we take care of the land, and it takes care of us.”

The group has some expert resources when it comes to taking care of the land and the plants. Master Gardeners and university extension experts have volunteered their time and advice, and the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) provides support and funding through soil health programs.

The mission of NRCS is “helping people help the land.” That land usually refers to range land and farm acres, but the same programs and principles can apply to community gardens.

“We're trying to get people together to go back to some of the things that were important years ago to our people for self-sustainability,” said Mary Scott, a Rosebud Indian Reservation member and tribal liaison with NRCS.

Student gardner holding out herbs for the camera

The reservation’s growing environment presents some significant challenges. The garden site had been a conventional field, growing sunflowers, corn, soybeans and wheat. The heavy clay soils made it difficult to hold enough water for the garden, especially given the sloping hillside where it sits. Long, hot days would burn up the plants one day, and they next they’d be hit by torrential downpours, hail and wind.

“There are a lot of things outside of our control,” said Her Many Horses, “and that can be tough in such an extreme weather environment”

Rather than give up, however, the team has simply learned to adapt and make the most of what they have.

“We have to be really strategic about how we plan out our year to make the most of this short window,” Wilson said. “We have branched into utilizing some year-round growing structures to expand our season.”

The garden is tended with organic methods, using fish emulsion and compost for fertilizer. Local ranchers have donated hay bales – the more beaten-up and weather-worn the better. As ground cover, they help with weed control. Adding mulch or organic matter has helped break up the hard, clay soil and has been a huge asset for moisture retention as well.

We’re using a regenerative approach to agriculture,” said Her Many Horses. “We’re always trying to give back to our soil.

The garden also incorporates time-honored growing techniques of the tribal community. Produce is grown with the three sister’s method – beans, corn and squash grow in rows and benefit from one another.

“Beans help fertilize the soil by providing nitrogen,” Wilson explained. “The corn, when it grows up the stalk, the beans are able to wrap around the stalk, and the squash actually helps keep out pests and other weeds.”

7 workers talking in the garden

It’s one of many ways the garden is bringing the community back to its roots. It also brings youth and elders together, sharing a positive outlook while producing something for the whole community. It connects people with land and community, giving them knowledge to pass along wherever they go.

Sharing knowledge is a big part of the project, Scott said, because it’s how cultures and traditions are kept alive.

“Growing our own produce is very important, so that this community can become self-sustaining, not only as a people, but as a tribe,” she said.

The ultimate goal is to completely change the food system on the Rosebud Indian Reservation.

“My vision is that our community becomes a food center where we have restaurants and food trucks sourcing their foods locally,” Wilson said, “and the garden is the first step to helping change our community mindset about food.”

But it goes even deeper than that.

“I hope that our community can be healthy and happy, that we can be sovereign,” said Her Many Horses. “And for us, that starts with everyone knowing where their food comes from.”

- Written by Janelle Atyeo

CAPTION: "Rather than give up, however, the team has simply learned to adapt and make the most of what they have."

NRCS ARTICLE 4/2020: There’s a sense of pride that comes with doing something for yourself, and growing food is a major part of being self-sustaining, healthy and whole.

A one-acre community garden on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in south-central South Dakota is connecting tribal members with the land, with food, and with their past.

“It’s about food sovereignty. It’s about having the choice of where and how you get your food, knowing how to feed yourself,” said Matte Wilson. “If that grocery store wasn’t here, would you know how to feed yourself and your family?”

Born and raised on the Rosebud Indian Reservation, Wilson is now director of the recently re-branded Sicangu Community Development Corporation (CDC) Food Sovereignty Initiative. One of its major projects is the Keya Wakpala Garden. Since moving back home in 2018, food sovereignty has played a major part of Wilson’s life.

“It is something that really excites me, something I could see myself doing for the rest of my life,” he said.

Vegetable Harvest on table

The food sovereignty movement has gained significant momentum throughout the country in recent years and is largely being led by indigenous communities. According to Wilson, you don’t have to be indigenous to appreciate delicious, locally grown foods.

“Food has the power to bring people together – it’s always been an essential part of all of our social interactions, whether or not you are Lakota,” he said.

For Keya Wakpala garden manager Ed Her Many Horses, the garden and learning how to grow food has been nothing short of trans-formative.

“It’s impacted me in a lot of different ways,” he said. “It helped give me a reason to get up in the morning – it still does. There is so much to appreciate in the garden.”

But it’s more than food, he’s found. Caring for a garden fosters community. The Keya Wakpala Garden is a place where interns, volunteers, community members and children come together to work, and they take pride in the outcome.

“It’s a beacon of hope, I think,” Her Many Horses said.

The Boys and Girls Club brings kids to the garden where they can plant, pick vegetables and even harvest indigenous foods such as ceyaka, wild mint, in the nearby wetlands. They learn to identify foods as they’re grown and harvested, and follow up field work with cooking sessions. Starting with young kids, the project aims to make gardening and producing food something that’s second nature – something they’re able to pass on to future generations.

Learning by doing is key, according to Wilson.

“When they are able to see it in person and participate in the process, it is really powerful. It makes people appreciate food and agriculture more,” he said.

Garden Row signs in lakota

Foster Cournoyer-Hogan is a student at Stanford University from the Rosebud Indian Reservation who interned for the summer at the Keya Wakpala Garden. His additions to the garden plot included the signs that identified the plants with Lakota words. There was wagmu (squash), tinpsilazizi (carrots), phangi sasa (beets) and mastincatawote (lettuce).

Using the Lakota language is a way to stay connected to traditional culture. That’s especially important when children and elders visit the garden, he said.

Along with strengthening connections to culture and community, the garden is helping solve another issue on the reservation – addressing health challenges. Diabetes and diet related illness is high on the Rosebud Indian Reservation, but the produce from the garden gives people access to nourishing food.

“Our food is everything,” Cournoyer-Hogan said.

“Food is medicine,” added Wilson: “The way we treat our garden, the way we treat the land is how we treat ourselves … we take care of the land, and it takes care of us.”

The group has some expert resources when it comes to taking care of the land and the plants. Master Gardeners and university extension experts have volunteered their time and advice, and the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) provides support and funding through soil health programs.

The mission of NRCS is “helping people help the land.” That land usually refers to range land and farm acres, but the same programs and principles can apply to community gardens.

“We're trying to get people together to go back to some of the things that were important years ago to our people for self-sustainability,” said Mary Scott, a Rosebud Indian Reservation member and tribal liaison with NRCS.

The reservation’s growing environment presents some significant challenges. The garden site had been a conventional field, growing sunflowers, corn, soybeans and wheat. The heavy clay soils made it difficult to hold enough water for the garden, especially given the sloping hillside where it sits. Long, hot days would burn up the plants one day, and they next they’d be hit by torrential downpours, hail and wind.

“There are a lot of things outside of our control,” said Her Many Horses, “and that can be tough in such an extreme weather environment”

Rather than give up, however, the team has simply learned to adapt and make the most of what they have.

“We have to be really strategic about how we plan out our year to make the most of this short window,” Wilson said. “We have branched into utilizing some year-round growing structures to expand our season.”

The garden is tended with organic methods, using fish emulsion and compost for fertilizer. Local ranchers have donated hay bales – the more beaten-up and weather-worn the better. As ground cover, they help with weed control. Adding mulch or organic matter has helped break up the hard, clay soil and has been a huge asset for moisture retention as well.

We’re using a regenerative approach to agriculture,” said Her Many Horses. “We’re always trying to give back to our soil.

The garden also incorporates time-honored growing techniques of the tribal community. Produce is grown with the three sister’s method – beans, corn and squash grow in rows and benefit from one another.

“Beans help fertilize the soil by providing nitrogen,” Wilson explained. “The corn, when it grows up the stalk, the beans are able to wrap around the stalk, and the squash actually helps keep out pests and other weeds.”

7 workers talking in the garden

It’s one of many ways the garden is bringing the community back to its roots. It also brings youth and elders together, sharing a positive outlook while producing something for the whole community. It connects people with land and community, giving them knowledge to pass along wherever they go.

Sharing knowledge is a big part of the project, Scott said, because it’s how cultures and traditions are kept alive.

“Growing our own produce is very important, so that this community can become self-sustaining, not only as a people, but as a tribe,” she said.

The ultimate goal is to completely change the food system on the Rosebud Indian Reservation.

“My vision is that our community becomes a food center where we have restaurants and food trucks sourcing their foods locally,” Wilson said, “and the garden is the first step to helping change our community mindset about food.”

But it goes even deeper than that.

“I hope that our community can be healthy and happy, that we can be sovereign,” said Her Many Horses. “And for us, that starts with everyone knowing where their food comes from.”

- Written by Janelle Atyeo

CAPTION: “When they are able to see it in person and participate in the process, it is really powerful. It makes people appreciate food and agriculture more.”

NRCS ARTICLE 4/2020: There’s a sense of pride that comes with doing something for yourself, and growing food is a major part of being self-sustaining, healthy and whole.

A one-acre community garden on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in south-central South Dakota is connecting tribal members with the land, with food, and with their past.

“It’s about food sovereignty. It’s about having the choice of where and how you get your food, knowing how to feed yourself,” said Matte Wilson. “If that grocery store wasn’t here, would you know how to feed yourself and your family?”

Born and raised on the Rosebud Indian Reservation, Wilson is now director of the recently re-branded Sicangu Community Development Corporation (CDC) Food Sovereignty Initiative. One of its major projects is the Keya Wakpala Garden. Since moving back home in 2018, food sovereignty has played a major part of Wilson’s life.

“It is something that really excites me, something I could see myself doing for the rest of my life,” he said.

The food sovereignty movement has gained significant momentum throughout the country in recent years and is largely being led by indigenous communities. According to Wilson, you don’t have to be indigenous to appreciate delicious, locally grown foods.

“Food has the power to bring people together – it’s always been an essential part of all of our social interactions, whether or not you are Lakota,” he said.

For Keya Wakpala garden manager Ed Her Many Horses, the garden and learning how to grow food has been nothing short of trans-formative.

“It’s impacted me in a lot of different ways,” he said. “It helped give me a reason to get up in the morning – it still does. There is so much to appreciate in the garden.”

But it’s more than food, he’s found. Caring for a garden fosters community. The Keya Wakpala Garden is a place where interns, volunteers, community members and children come together to work, and they take pride in the outcome.

“It’s a beacon of hope, I think,” Her Many Horses said.

The Boys and Girls Club brings kids to the garden where they can plant, pick vegetables and even harvest indigenous foods such as ceyaka, wild mint, in the nearby wetlands. They learn to identify foods as they’re grown and harvested, and follow up field work with cooking sessions. Starting with young kids, the project aims to make gardening and producing food something that’s second nature – something they’re able to pass on to future generations.

Learning by doing is key, according to Wilson.

“When they are able to see it in person and participate in the process, it is really powerful. It makes people appreciate food and agriculture more,” he said.

Foster Cournoyer-Hogan is a student at Stanford University from the Rosebud Indian Reservation who interned for the summer at the Keya Wakpala Garden. His additions to the garden plot included the signs that identified the plants with Lakota words. There was wagmu (squash), tinpsilazizi (carrots), phangi sasa (beets) and mastincatawote (lettuce).

Using the Lakota language is a way to stay connected to traditional culture. That’s especially important when children and elders visit the garden, he said.

Along with strengthening connections to culture and community, the garden is helping solve another issue on the reservation – addressing health challenges. Diabetes and diet related illness is high on the Rosebud Indian Reservation, but the produce from the garden gives people access to nourishing food.

“Our food is everything,” Cournoyer-Hogan said.

“Food is medicine,” added Wilson: “The way we treat our garden, the way we treat the land is how we treat ourselves … we take care of the land, and it takes care of us.”

The group has some expert resources when it comes to taking care of the land and the plants. Master Gardeners and university extension experts have volunteered their time and advice, and the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) provides support and funding through soil health programs.

The mission of NRCS is “helping people help the land.” That land usually refers to range land and farm acres, but the same programs and principles can apply to community gardens.

“We're trying to get people together to go back to some of the things that were important years ago to our people for self-sustainability,” said Mary Scott, a Rosebud Indian Reservation member and tribal liaison with NRCS.

The reservation’s growing environment presents some significant challenges. The garden site had been a conventional field, growing sunflowers, corn, soybeans and wheat. The heavy clay soils made it difficult to hold enough water for the garden, especially given the sloping hillside where it sits. Long, hot days would burn up the plants one day, and they next they’d be hit by torrential downpours, hail and wind.

“There are a lot of things outside of our control,” said Her Many Horses, “and that can be tough in such an extreme weather environment”

Rather than give up, however, the team has simply learned to adapt and make the most of what they have.

“We have to be really strategic about how we plan out our year to make the most of this short window,” Wilson said. “We have branched into utilizing some year-round growing structures to expand our season.”

The garden is tended with organic methods, using fish emulsion and compost for fertilizer. Local ranchers have donated hay bales – the more beaten-up and weather-worn the better. As ground cover, they help with weed control. Adding mulch or organic matter has helped break up the hard, clay soil and has been a huge asset for moisture retention as well.

We’re using a regenerative approach to agriculture,” said Her Many Horses. “We’re always trying to give back to our soil.

The garden also incorporates time-honored growing techniques of the tribal community. Produce is grown with the three sister’s method – beans, corn and squash grow in rows and benefit from one another.

“Beans help fertilize the soil by providing nitrogen,” Wilson explained. “The corn, when it grows up the stalk, the beans are able to wrap around the stalk, and the squash actually helps keep out pests and other weeds.”

7 workers talking in the garden

It’s one of many ways the garden is bringing the community back to its roots. It also brings youth and elders together, sharing a positive outlook while producing something for the whole community. It connects people with land and community, giving them knowledge to pass along wherever they go.

Sharing knowledge is a big part of the project, Scott said, because it’s how cultures and traditions are kept alive.

“Growing our own produce is very important, so that this community can become self-sustaining, not only as a people, but as a tribe,” she said.

The ultimate goal is to completely change the food system on the Rosebud Indian Reservation.

“My vision is that our community becomes a food center where we have restaurants and food trucks sourcing their foods locally,” Wilson said, “and the garden is the first step to helping change our community mindset about food.”

But it goes even deeper than that.

“I hope that our community can be healthy and happy, that we can be sovereign,” said Her Many Horses. “And for us, that starts with everyone knowing where their food comes from.”

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Digital literacy and participatory multimodal media.

In the 1980's Donald Schon proposed that educational institutions should adapt towards the traditions of pedagogy demonstrated within the creative arts, sport coaching and trade apprenticeships.

Schon emphasised 'learning by doing'.

In his words – by becoming 'The Reflective Practitioner'. ---- The studio classroom -----.

Learning in the 21st century operates within 'open societal systems'. Today's students require a knowledge framework that is relevant to participating within global societies. John Hattie states that the use of computers is more effective when the student, not the teacher, is in control of learning.

More information goo.gl/UP5zp

Ich habe mich ein wenig in Fotoshop ausgetobt um noch ein wenig mehr zu lernen in genau dem Bereich. Learning by doing ist angesagt :D

Tutorial für diesen Effekt:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOYnX2J94zc

Learning by doing.....how to have less seams as you go along....

Park Managers Russell Johnson of York River and Bill Jacobs of Chippokes Plantation learning by doing. Photo by John Gresham

Learn more about this state park here: www.dcr.virginia.gov/state-parks/chippokes-plantation#gen...

Learning by doing season macro ...

On busy Washington, DC streets, it's not uncommon to see someone holding a cardboard sign asking for money. What's different is someone holding a sign offering to give money.

That's exactly the deal Yemi & Tsahai offered one afternoon at Chinatown's 7th & H NW. Their sign read 'Tell us your story. We'll give you a dollar.'

"How many dollars do you give away?" I asked Yemi.

"Until I run out."

"How many do you normally give out in a day?"

"Probably $24."

"What's the most common situation you hear?"

"A lot of them are about struggling and things they've gone through. I guess stuff like them losing their families. Those are the biggest things issues we've heard people going through."

"What do you hope to accomplish?"

"I want to write a book and poetry about the stories and then give out the books. People can read and see that they're other people going through the same things that they are going through. They're not alone."

"It's always been an idea of mine. I've been involved with different nonprofit organizations, and I felt I was getting too old to be relying on other organizations. So I officially started my organization this summer."

"What's the name of your organization?"

Community Engagement Project.

We're in the middle of our conversation, but people are stopping, eager to tell their stories. I sense for many of them that it's not as much about the money as having someone to listen.

About 100 Strangers: The One Hundred Strangers project is a learning group for people who want to improve the social and technical skills needed for taking portraits of strangers and telling their stories. The method is learning by doing.

The challenge:

Take 100 photographs of at least 100 people you don't know. Approach a person or group of people and ask for permission to both take a photo of them and to post it to the group at www.flickr.com/groups/100strangers/.

Get to know your subjects. Take their pictures. Tell their stories.

Title: Individual welding units and the orderly use of classroom space provided Parkside students with the best possible learning-by-doing conditions in their new school in September 1967.

Creator(s): St. Thomas Times-Journal

Bygone Days Publication Date: September 10, 2015

Original Publication Date: September 27, 1967

Reference No.: C8 Sh1 B2 F3 17a

Credit: Elgin County Archives, St. Thomas Times-Journal fonds

Associate Professor in Architecture Franca Trubiano and Lecturer in Historic Preservation Roy Ingraffia introduce Penn Design students to learning by doing, working alongside mason apprentices.

Trubiano’s Masonry Tectonics seminar (sponsored by IMI – International Masonry Institute ) asks how the knowledge of building with materials fosters the design imagination. Students will return to BAC and collaborate once more on the construction of large scale vaults and structural cantilevers.

Transplantation successful! The MiG-23 wing section fits very well on- and into the Jaguar fuselage. Biggest trouble zone is the rear intersection, and the gaps under the wing roots (which come from enthusiastic use of the mini saw, though. Learning by doing...).

Even the intersection to the air intake trunks works fine - my initial idea/plan seems to work out. :D

Zoo Frankfurt

Slowly figuring out the tilt function. Learning by doing.

www.100strangers.com/

The One Hundred Strangers project is a learning group for people who want to improve the social and technical skills needed for taking portraits of strangers and telling their stories. The method is learning by doing.

I first spotted Marianne walking down Camden High Street and immediately wanted to photograph her. She was walking quickly and before I could react she was gone. Later, while on my way home, I spotted her standing outside the tube station and made sure I didn't miss the opportunity again. After I'd explained the project, she told me that she'd done a similar project while at art school so she'd give me a break.

Marianne wanted to know if she should pose or not but I just kept her chatting and snapped away, the intention being to capture the lovely open and natural features that had drawn me to her to begin with. I hope I've done her justice.

She was working, meeting foreign students and taking them shopping round London. Being paid to go shopping all day is a positive in her mind. Glad you have a job that you enjoy and thank you so much for being such a lovely friendly subject.

As a number of people have commented about having a go at light painting, I thought I'd share some of my experiences and the tools I currently use.

Although I've been dabbling in this for a while, the results were mostly disappointing. It was quite an effort to keep myself motivated as I was never able to achieve what I had in mind (and considering you're up the best part of the night, stumbling around in the dark in unfavourable conditions, unable to compose or focus on your subject because there's not enough light to see anything through the viewfinder etc. I was close to giving up).

This changed with the inspirational work of Troy Paiva www.flickr.com/photos/lostamerica/ and his wonderful book "Night Vision". To me, he's the absolute master of this technique (his "Joshua Trees" set is one of my favourites on flickr).

Getting the right equipment has also restored my motivation, so here goes:

1. LEE Filters coloured gels. I bought this set at a reduced price. A collection of 12 wonderful colours, which I cut to size and labelled (you need to find the right one quickly). Before I had these, I made my own from all sorts of coloured plastic… don't even bother trying this, the results were terrible!

2. LED Lenser P14 LED torch. This is probably the most amazing thing I've bought for a long time (OK, they're not cheap). Superb build quality, probably the brightest torch I've ever come across, you can focus the light beam and the batteries last forever (they make a model called the X21 – it has to be seen to be believed).

Proper colour gels absorb a lot of light, so you need a powerful torch. Furthermore, if you like night photography (even without light painting), this torch is invaluable for composing and focusing!

3. Some smaller torches (always good to have handy to find stuff) and a strobe (I got the Canon 430EXII because it was cheaper… not quite powerful enough so probably not the wisest decision).

To me it's still very much work in progress and there's plenty more to learn, but so far I've found that setting an Aperture of 5.6 produces good results. I always use the Manual camera setting (in Bulb mode) and the Canon RC-5 wireless remote. I currently only shoot RAW, so I'm not particularly concerned with any WB settings etc. Apart from that it's "learning by doing" and I guess the sky's the limit… I'm having loads of fun with this and hope you do too!

I'm still trying to find a way to keep my hands warm though, so if you know of something, please let me know sooooooon ;-)

To help prepare students for future work in their chosen fields, classes in the Hurd Science center are designed to be interactive and dynamic.

Two years of Learning by Doing: How easy is it for a big carnivore to catch ants?

Le Gulden Leeuw

Il repart ce mardi après son escale de la Pentecôte bassin Vauban. Les promeneurs du quai Saint-Louis ont pu admirer plusieurs jours l'élégante goélette à hunier à trois-mâts de 70 m de long construite en 1937 pour le ministère danois de l'agriculture et de la pêche. Racheté en 2007, il a été transformé pour devenir un voilier de croisière.

Voilier robuste

Le 'Gulden Leeuw' a été conçu et construit comme navire de catégorie supérieure, capable de naviguer sur les océans. En combinaison avec les gréements choisis, il deviendra un navire rapide et fiable. Nous voulons un navire qui sache vraiment naviguer à la voile. Les gréements ne doivent pas seulement servir de décoration, mais ils doivent aussi réellement disposer de bonnes dispositions pour naviguer à la voile. Le 'Gulden Leeuw' est une goélette à huniers à trois mâts; le mât avant est donc également à voiles carrées. Ces gréements très variés combinent les avantages d'un voilier à voiles carrées à ceux d'un navire à gréements longitudinaux. Vous pouvez naviguez près du vent ou prendre les vents alizés. Avec ce Grand Voilier, nous pouvons naviguer dans toutes les eaux internationales.

L'ambiance des années 30

Le style des années 30 fut caractérisé d'une part, par des matériaux précieux et somptueux, souvent réalisés à la main, décoratifs et luxueux. D'autre part, on recherchait les formes simples et fonctionnelles. Une excellente qualité et un niveau élevé de finition allaient de soi. Notre navire a été construit en 1937. On a pu conserver de très beaux détails authentiques. Nous revenons à nouveau à ces caractéristiques originales, ce qui donne à notre navire une ambiance merveilleuse.

Aménagement du pont

Le 'Gulden Leeuw' a un énorme pont central sur lequel tous les invités peuvent être présents en même temps. Ce pont central jouxte le rouf qui sera pourvu de grandes portes-fenêtres. Ce qui a pour avantage que le rouf et le pont central semblent former un grand espace. L'intérieur et l'extérieur sont réunis. Il sera possible de recouvrir le navire tout entier. Quand nous nous promenons sur le pont, nous passons par de très larges coursives où on placera des petits bancs chargés de nostalgie. Rien qu'à l'extérieur, on a déjà créé 170 places assises. Vous atteignez le sun-deck via le pont arrière.

Disposition à l'intérieur

Notre 'captains-VIP-lounge' jouxte le pont arrière. C'est un vaste espace avec un feu ouvert, habillage Chesterfield et une grande variété de bons whiskys et de cigares. C'est un endroit où on passe un moment à bavarder. Quand nous allons plus loin, nous passons devant le vestiaire dans le grand rouf, où vous trouvez un bar au centre. Si vous descendez l'escalier, vous arrivez à la salle à manger multifonctionnelle. Toutes les tables, toutes les chaises et toutes les banquettes peuvent être enlevées en un minimum de temps ou disposées d'une autre manière. Il est donc possible d'utiliser ce grand espace comme salle de danse, salle de séminaire ou dortoir, par exemple,

The Gulden Leeuw is one of the world's largest three-mast-topsail schooners, built under architecture, she has perfect sailing abilities. The ship has very high safety standard because of strict Dutch additional safety requirements on top of SOLAS requirements. Our professional crew consists of very well trained and experienced sailors which hold all required certificates. The (deck) layout of the Gulden Leeuw guarantees a safe learning environment. The Gulden Leeuw was built with the function of sail training in mind. We are passionate about sail training and are eager to "show you the ropes." As soon as you step on board we consider you as "one of the crew." On board our ship, we appreciate team spirit and an open atmosphere. Sailing is great! We also understand that you are there to meet others, see the world and have fun. We get that. You are very welcome to join us and become part of the team.

The ultimate goal is for the trainees to take over the ship. Therefore, everything is done by the trainees – from watch keeping to cleaning the deck. We believe it should be your vessel and your challenge. Our program makes it possible to find out what you like and where your qualities and personal challenges lie. Throughout the course of the journey, the trainees are provided with a sense of seafaring tradition and values, which are indispensable for life on board and within a close community. The group on board is an independent community, almost like a small town in terms of the challenges that it faces, which cannot be ignored and must be overcome. In doing so, personal commitment is promoted and reinforced. Due to the small size of the team in comparison to those on board large freight vessels, the trainees are able to assist in every area on board – from the ship’s management, right through to route planning. Learning by doing is what we do. Depending on the duration of a trip, it is also possible to go into further detail in some areas. Here, a primary focus is on training and encouraging the aspects of community and team-spirit.

The “Gulden Leeuw” is a big, sturdy sailing ship reminiscent of the 30’s and with the deck layout of a classic yacht.

This ship was built in 1937 on behalf of the Danish Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. The DANA was designed and built as an ocean-going ice class ship. During her period of service for the Danish government, she was frequently used for marine biological research, not only in Danish waters but also in international ones. The ship has a rich history. She sailed as a researcher, supplier and even as a training ship for a Danish nautical college.

In the past two years the ship has been converted into a three-masted topsail schooner, so the foremast is also yard-rigged. This very versatile rigging combines the advantages of a square-sailed ship and a fore-and-aft rigged ship.

The “Gulden Leeuw” offers space for up to 200 passengers on day sails and for 56 trainees on longer voyages. We are passionate about sail training and are eager to “show you the ropes”. On board our ship we appreciate team spirit.

The ship has a luxurious flair and is therefore also very suitable for corporate hospitality, seminars and day trips.

Le Gulden Leeuw

Il repart ce mardi après son escale de la Pentecôte bassin Vauban. Les promeneurs du quai Saint-Louis ont pu admirer plusieurs jours l'élégante goélette à hunier à trois-mâts de 70 m de long construite en 1937 pour le ministère danois de l'agriculture et de la pêche. Racheté en 2007, il a été transformé pour devenir un voilier de croisière.

Voilier robuste

Le 'Gulden Leeuw' a été conçu et construit comme navire de catégorie supérieure, capable de naviguer sur les océans. En combinaison avec les gréements choisis, il deviendra un navire rapide et fiable. Nous voulons un navire qui sache vraiment naviguer à la voile. Les gréements ne doivent pas seulement servir de décoration, mais ils doivent aussi réellement disposer de bonnes dispositions pour naviguer à la voile. Le 'Gulden Leeuw' est une goélette à huniers à trois mâts; le mât avant est donc également à voiles carrées. Ces gréements très variés combinent les avantages d'un voilier à voiles carrées à ceux d'un navire à gréements longitudinaux. Vous pouvez naviguez près du vent ou prendre les vents alizés. Avec ce Grand Voilier, nous pouvons naviguer dans toutes les eaux internationales.

L'ambiance des années 30

Le style des années 30 fut caractérisé d'une part, par des matériaux précieux et somptueux, souvent réalisés à la main, décoratifs et luxueux. D'autre part, on recherchait les formes simples et fonctionnelles. Une excellente qualité et un niveau élevé de finition allaient de soi. Notre navire a été construit en 1937. On a pu conserver de très beaux détails authentiques. Nous revenons à nouveau à ces caractéristiques originales, ce qui donne à notre navire une ambiance merveilleuse.

Aménagement du pont

Le 'Gulden Leeuw' a un énorme pont central sur lequel tous les invités peuvent être présents en même temps. Ce pont central jouxte le rouf qui sera pourvu de grandes portes-fenêtres. Ce qui a pour avantage que le rouf et le pont central semblent former un grand espace. L'intérieur et l'extérieur sont réunis. Il sera possible de recouvrir le navire tout entier. Quand nous nous promenons sur le pont, nous passons par de très larges coursives où on placera des petits bancs chargés de nostalgie. Rien qu'à l'extérieur, on a déjà créé 170 places assises. Vous atteignez le sun-deck via le pont arrière.

Disposition à l'intérieur

Notre 'captains-VIP-lounge' jouxte le pont arrière. C'est un vaste espace avec un feu ouvert, habillage Chesterfield et une grande variété de bons whiskys et de cigares. C'est un endroit où on passe un moment à bavarder. Quand nous allons plus loin, nous passons devant le vestiaire dans le grand rouf, où vous trouvez un bar au centre. Si vous descendez l'escalier, vous arrivez à la salle à manger multifonctionnelle. Toutes les tables, toutes les chaises et toutes les banquettes peuvent être enlevées en un minimum de temps ou disposées d'une autre manière. Il est donc possible d'utiliser ce grand espace comme salle de danse, salle de séminaire ou dortoir, par exemple,

The Gulden Leeuw is one of the world's largest three-mast-topsail schooners, built under architecture, she has perfect sailing abilities. The ship has very high safety standard because of strict Dutch additional safety requirements on top of SOLAS requirements. Our professional crew consists of very well trained and experienced sailors which hold all required certificates. The (deck) layout of the Gulden Leeuw guarantees a safe learning environment. The Gulden Leeuw was built with the function of sail training in mind. We are passionate about sail training and are eager to "show you the ropes." As soon as you step on board we consider you as "one of the crew." On board our ship, we appreciate team spirit and an open atmosphere. Sailing is great! We also understand that you are there to meet others, see the world and have fun. We get that. You are very welcome to join us and become part of the team.

The ultimate goal is for the trainees to take over the ship. Therefore, everything is done by the trainees – from watch keeping to cleaning the deck. We believe it should be your vessel and your challenge. Our program makes it possible to find out what you like and where your qualities and personal challenges lie. Throughout the course of the journey, the trainees are provided with a sense of seafaring tradition and values, which are indispensable for life on board and within a close community. The group on board is an independent community, almost like a small town in terms of the challenges that it faces, which cannot be ignored and must be overcome. In doing so, personal commitment is promoted and reinforced. Due to the small size of the team in comparison to those on board large freight vessels, the trainees are able to assist in every area on board – from the ship’s management, right through to route planning. Learning by doing is what we do. Depending on the duration of a trip, it is also possible to go into further detail in some areas. Here, a primary focus is on training and encouraging the aspects of community and team-spirit.

The “Gulden Leeuw” is a big, sturdy sailing ship reminiscent of the 30’s and with the deck layout of a classic yacht.

This ship was built in 1937 on behalf of the Danish Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. The DANA was designed and built as an ocean-going ice class ship. During her period of service for the Danish government, she was frequently used for marine biological research, not only in Danish waters but also in international ones. The ship has a rich history. She sailed as a researcher, supplier and even as a training ship for a Danish nautical college.

In the past two years the ship has been converted into a three-masted topsail schooner, so the foremast is also yard-rigged. This very versatile rigging combines the advantages of a square-sailed ship and a fore-and-aft rigged ship.

The “Gulden Leeuw” offers space for up to 200 passengers on day sails and for 56 trainees on longer voyages. We are passionate about sail training and are eager to “show you the ropes”. On board our ship we appreciate team spirit.

The ship has a luxurious flair and is therefore also very suitable for corporate hospitality, seminars and day trips.

All the safety in the world can't accomodate for developing a human sense of danger. There were some quite steep passages on this boulder, but easily managed if you apply the right attitude. It's amazing how quickly kids learn how to do this.

And let me shout this, mothers of the world: They learn it by DOING IT, not by NOT DOING IT!

Uiuiui, ich gebe ja zu, es war kein sonniger Tag, aber dennoch hätte ein ISO 200 Film es eigentlich tun müssen ...

Der schlanke Teufel ist fest eingestellt auf Blende 11 und 1/125s

Aber ISO 200 ist einfach nicht genug, und pushen / pullen geht bei Farbfilmen ja leider nicht ...

Aber da heute ja eh keiner guckt kann ich ja auch mal so ein Rohrkrepierer posten ;)

Camera: Black Slim Devil

Film: Fuji Superia 200 (Expired 2006)

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Le Gulden Leeuw

Il repart ce mardi après son escale de la Pentecôte bassin Vauban. Les promeneurs du quai Saint-Louis ont pu admirer plusieurs jours l'élégante goélette à hunier à trois-mâts de 70 m de long construite en 1937 pour le ministère danois de l'agriculture et de la pêche. Racheté en 2007, il a été transformé pour devenir un voilier de croisière.

Voilier robuste

Le 'Gulden Leeuw' a été conçu et construit comme navire de catégorie supérieure, capable de naviguer sur les océans. En combinaison avec les gréements choisis, il deviendra un navire rapide et fiable. Nous voulons un navire qui sache vraiment naviguer à la voile. Les gréements ne doivent pas seulement servir de décoration, mais ils doivent aussi réellement disposer de bonnes dispositions pour naviguer à la voile. Le 'Gulden Leeuw' est une goélette à huniers à trois mâts; le mât avant est donc également à voiles carrées. Ces gréements très variés combinent les avantages d'un voilier à voiles carrées à ceux d'un navire à gréements longitudinaux. Vous pouvez naviguez près du vent ou prendre les vents alizés. Avec ce Grand Voilier, nous pouvons naviguer dans toutes les eaux internationales.

L'ambiance des années 30

Le style des années 30 fut caractérisé d'une part, par des matériaux précieux et somptueux, souvent réalisés à la main, décoratifs et luxueux. D'autre part, on recherchait les formes simples et fonctionnelles. Une excellente qualité et un niveau élevé de finition allaient de soi. Notre navire a été construit en 1937. On a pu conserver de très beaux détails authentiques. Nous revenons à nouveau à ces caractéristiques originales, ce qui donne à notre navire une ambiance merveilleuse.

Aménagement du pont

Le 'Gulden Leeuw' a un énorme pont central sur lequel tous les invités peuvent être présents en même temps. Ce pont central jouxte le rouf qui sera pourvu de grandes portes-fenêtres. Ce qui a pour avantage que le rouf et le pont central semblent former un grand espace. L'intérieur et l'extérieur sont réunis. Il sera possible de recouvrir le navire tout entier. Quand nous nous promenons sur le pont, nous passons par de très larges coursives où on placera des petits bancs chargés de nostalgie. Rien qu'à l'extérieur, on a déjà créé 170 places assises. Vous atteignez le sun-deck via le pont arrière.

Disposition à l'intérieur

Notre 'captains-VIP-lounge' jouxte le pont arrière. C'est un vaste espace avec un feu ouvert, habillage Chesterfield et une grande variété de bons whiskys et de cigares. C'est un endroit où on passe un moment à bavarder. Quand nous allons plus loin, nous passons devant le vestiaire dans le grand rouf, où vous trouvez un bar au centre. Si vous descendez l'escalier, vous arrivez à la salle à manger multifonctionnelle. Toutes les tables, toutes les chaises et toutes les banquettes peuvent être enlevées en un minimum de temps ou disposées d'une autre manière. Il est donc possible d'utiliser ce grand espace comme salle de danse, salle de séminaire ou dortoir, par exemple,

The Gulden Leeuw is one of the world's largest three-mast-topsail schooners, built under architecture, she has perfect sailing abilities. The ship has very high safety standard because of strict Dutch additional safety requirements on top of SOLAS requirements. Our professional crew consists of very well trained and experienced sailors which hold all required certificates. The (deck) layout of the Gulden Leeuw guarantees a safe learning environment. The Gulden Leeuw was built with the function of sail training in mind. We are passionate about sail training and are eager to "show you the ropes." As soon as you step on board we consider you as "one of the crew." On board our ship, we appreciate team spirit and an open atmosphere. Sailing is great! We also understand that you are there to meet others, see the world and have fun. We get that. You are very welcome to join us and become part of the team.

The ultimate goal is for the trainees to take over the ship. Therefore, everything is done by the trainees – from watch keeping to cleaning the deck. We believe it should be your vessel and your challenge. Our program makes it possible to find out what you like and where your qualities and personal challenges lie. Throughout the course of the journey, the trainees are provided with a sense of seafaring tradition and values, which are indispensable for life on board and within a close community. The group on board is an independent community, almost like a small town in terms of the challenges that it faces, which cannot be ignored and must be overcome. In doing so, personal commitment is promoted and reinforced. Due to the small size of the team in comparison to those on board large freight vessels, the trainees are able to assist in every area on board – from the ship’s management, right through to route planning. Learning by doing is what we do. Depending on the duration of a trip, it is also possible to go into further detail in some areas. Here, a primary focus is on training and encouraging the aspects of community and team-spirit.

The “Gulden Leeuw” is a big, sturdy sailing ship reminiscent of the 30’s and with the deck layout of a classic yacht.

This ship was built in 1937 on behalf of the Danish Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. The DANA was designed and built as an ocean-going ice class ship. During her period of service for the Danish government, she was frequently used for marine biological research, not only in Danish waters but also in international ones. The ship has a rich history. She sailed as a researcher, supplier and even as a training ship for a Danish nautical college.

In the past two years the ship has been converted into a three-masted topsail schooner, so the foremast is also yard-rigged. This very versatile rigging combines the advantages of a square-sailed ship and a fore-and-aft rigged ship.

The “Gulden Leeuw” offers space for up to 200 passengers on day sails and for 56 trainees on longer voyages. We are passionate about sail training and are eager to “show you the ropes”. On board our ship we appreciate team spirit.

The ship has a luxurious flair and is therefore also very suitable for corporate hospitality, seminars and day trips.

BOB TAYLOR goes to Germany, Summer 2006

Ludwigsburg/ Berlin, Deutschland

Bob Taylor had his internship following Producer Kristine Knudsen on the shoot of the feature film REINE GESCHMACKSACHE.

What do I do? Kristine Knudsen describes her job

I am a filmproducer based in Berlin. This summer I had the great chance of shooting the first selfproduced feature film.

A filmproducer is resposible for the financing, planning and execution of a filmproject. As the person responsible for the development and/or choice of sujets and scripts, for the aquisition of the necessary financial means, putting together the organising, the artistic and technical team and doing the marketingplans and distribution strategy, the producer makes decisions fundamental for the success or failure of a movie.

My interest for films started growing in my homecountry Norway. Being curious on another country I decided to study Filmproducing in Germany- at the Filmakademie Baden- Württemberg in Ludwigsburg. During the 4 years- study we learned filmmaking the real way - learning by doing. On no-budget & lowbudget experimenting with other filmmakers, learning to tell stories in pictures and sound.

The strange thing about filmmaking is the long periods where one develops and finances a project. It takes only few persons but loads of time, normally between 1-3 years.

And then, within the 2 months of preparation and most drastically the 5 weeks of shooting a whole circus is on the road. An uncontrollable mass of artist, technicians and helpers who by some wonder work harmonically towards one goal.

Our first film has the working title REINE GESCHMACKSACHE, translates PURELY A MATTER OF TASTE.

It is a lowbudget feature film of ca 100min.

45 persons im team, 5 main actores, 20 smalles roles,

It is shot on ca 13.000 meter S- 16 mm Kodak filmmaterial, in 25 days on ca 35 locations.

Facts about the Film

The Team:

Producers: Kristine Knudsen & Boris Michalski, Director: Ingo Rasper, Screenplay: Tom Streuber & Ingo Rasper, Director of Photography (DOP): Marc Achenbach, Editor: Patricia Rommel, Music: Martina Eisenreich, Production Design: Christian Strang, Costume Design: Bettina Marx.

The Principal Cast:

Edgar Selge, Florian Bartholomaei, Franziska Walser, Roman Knizka, Traute Hoess.

The Story:

First-time feature director and co-author Ingo Rasper hits the road with Reine Geschmackssache (translation: Purely A Matter Of Taste), a buddy comedy about a father and son who are no longer able to avoid each other and really get into trouble.

This is the story of Wolfgang, an `old school´ sales agent, who sells clothing to `Best Ager´-boutiques, catering for women aged thirty-five and above. When he loses his driving licence he commandeers his son, Karsten, to drive him around the province with a car loaded with next year’s fashions.

What nobody except Wolfgang knows, is that he’s both bankrupt and under threat from a younger and increasingly successful rival. What nobody knows is that Karsten is not only desperate to leave the family home and party in Spain, but he also has a very big secret of his own. Things come, as they must, to a head.

INTERVIEW - what Bob wanted to know about Kristine Knudsen and her professional life

- Why are you the best Ð If you are?

Because I love my job. When I have a mission and a vision, it gives me energy to push the project a little bit further every day.

Being a filmproducer is like being a big fat mama for a audiovisual project. Embracing the vision, planting ideas, help them grow and finally let them go - into the world, to the audience.

I truly enjoy my profession when a project is financed. Only problem is it takes so long for a filmproject to be ready for shooting.

Most problems that then arrive are solvable, either through persuation and motivation or compromises. When the train is rolling there is no way to stop it, just to do the maximun possible with the means one have.

Im am good at being a producer because I am a generalist. I know something about many areas, but let other people do the specialization.

It is my job to keep the overview and stay true to the underlying vision.

Combined with a strong attitude of knowing what I want and a gut feeling. Often it is hard to make so many decitions, and one must trust the own instincts.

- What is your special spirit Ð if you have one?

Being positive and believing that everyone is the architect of ones on fortune.

- What drives you professionally Ð if you are?

Curiousity.

On life, on people, on film handcraft and film form.

Search.

Film can be a treasure search in human nature, there are no borders for what stories to tell. The own imagination is the only limit.

An out-of daily routine searching for cast and locations for a film.

Being on the search for something makes one sensible for the environment, makes one see more than in daily routine.

Sometimes life is more exiting than fiction. Letting fiction and real life inspire each other.

The creative urge

and want to tell a story to an audience.

Pulling the Threads

Enjoying the role of being a thread- puller, achieving the best resulats by giving the partners creative freedom within the frames of time and budget.

Setting the frames, then letting the heads of department play withing those frames. Like watching children play in the sandbox.

- When do you get most inspired Ð if you get that?

From a idea, story, theme, moment that moves me emotionally, either makes me laugh or cry.

From people. The fine, sensible machinery of a cast and a crew of ca 50 people coming together for some months, working under hard circumstances, trying to achive something remarkable. When actors give life to the written charcters we only know from the paper over 1-2 year of script development. When the crew push each other further and solve problems as they pop up.

- What is most important to you Ð if anything is?

Passion for ones job. Going for the maximun, but not at all costs.

Doing business with style. Staying grounded. Beeing a “ maximum” person.

- Why is your product better than othersÕ Ð if it is?

We want to entertain and move people, also stimulate to think about their lives.

I like the humour in our project, it is very german but not so often seen in cinema here.

- How do you use knowledge Ð If you do?

The best way can. Listening to the knowledge of the old masters and trying to learn from my own mistakes as I go along.

- Why are you different from others Ð If you are?

Here I am a little bit different because I am a foreigner from a neighbour country.

- Why are you more innovative than others Ð If you are?

I don’t know if I am, but I should be in the distribution.

Our film hopes to be classical good, intelligent entertainment.

- Why is it you and not others that receive and INturn Ð because it is?

Because Bob just really wanted to go to Germany since it is so wunderful in the summer and German films are starting to kick ass again!

A project from 2006, at EGM's.

This project got published several times in Holland (de Architect October 2007, "A Tradition of Change" Staro Nai publishers January 2009), due to it being the built form of a new educational approach making it a somewhat experimental school building. Experiential learning, or 'learning by doing', are the central teaching methods. The central study and work spaces show most clearly this philosophy. These areas form the core of the four storey building.

Colour is used to represent each professional field: red represents expression, blue stands for maths, physics and chemistry, orange for languages and green for 'Man & Society " (geography, history).

The domains are arranged as an open space surrounded by instructional and class rooms that are partly open, partly closed off, and staff rooms. In the class rooms complex topics are explained and tests conducted. Other tasks can optionally be done in the open spaces or in the main workspace provided.

For small groups a "work unit" was designed, emphasized by a striped carpet. Perpendicular to this element long wooden work benches provide individual as well as group study possibilities.

The budget was tight so the spacial solutions as well as the choice of materials had to be economical and also done inventively to prevent the school from becoming bland and uninspiring.

A lot of industrial materials were used, but only so to make an unusual use of them, for example the ceilings were done by using reinforcement steel grids, used normally to strengthen concrete. Acoustics were dealt with by means of a special plaster on the ceilings, partly made of shredded recycled paper. Light fixtures are held into position with tie-wraps. Walls are made up of underlayment board and oriented strand board, floors are coated with concrete paint. The building's facades are made of stucco, Hardi plank (a very cheap cement board with a dark brown coating), and blue coated, moulded polyester panels, hiding the multi coloured sunscreen rolls. The furniture design was partly done by Hollandse Nieuwe, a dutch design firm.

Although succesful in many ways the school is currently suffering from a lack of space for housing the ever rising number of new pupils each year...

Photographed in the early 70s. I received an extraordinary education at Dewey, for which this statue is an icon.

John Dewey High School was an experimental school begun in 1969, and run on the "learning by doing" philosophy of John Dewey. If 14 students wanted a class and a teacher was willing to teach it, that class was born. Students could take subjects on independent study; those ambitious and thorough enough could design their own courses. Extended hours gave students the choice of spending time at a resource center, where teachers were on hand to mentor. Alternatively, you could spend that extra time in the library, the labs, or the campus grounds (where I improved my handball game considerably). If you had a good chunk of time, you could scoot off to Coney Island a single subway stop away. A girl like myself could take Mechanical Drawing instead of Home Economics, and fulfill part of my phys. ed. requirement by taking Bowling. Creative arts reigned, along with a well-rounded liberal arts curriculum. By the time I graduated in 1975, the first budget cuts were being lowered on the NYC Board of Education; two decades after Dewey fell victim to those cuts, local school boards across the country started reinventing the wheel with charter schools. They'd have done well to keep the original blueprint for a successful revolution in education. That blueprint, in my opinion, was and still is Dewey.

5DMKII - 24mm TS-E

I've been wanting to do the 100 Strangers Project for a while now. But, I've been nervous to just start asking strangers if I can take their picture. Well, today I got over that and met Anne.

Anne was in the area visiting her parents. Today, on her way back to Philly, she had some time to kill before her flight, so she came down to the Old Market.

She was so nice and so helpful, making sure she was in a place with good light, even making some posing suggestions.

Thanks Anne.

About 100 strangers

Step out of your comfort zone to a new level of portrait photography. Start by taking 100 portraits of people you don't know.

The idea: The One Hundred Strangers project is a learning group for people who want to improve the social and technical skills needed for taking portraits of strangers and telling their stories. The method is learning by doing.

The project is lots of fun and improves photojournalistic skills. During the process you might expand your every day living experience - and who knows, maybe you will even get a couple of new friends during the process.

We welcome both beginner and advanced photographers. You may be new to photographing strangers or already have experience of this type of photography.

The challenge: Take 100 photographs of at least 100 people you don't know. Approach a person or group of people and ask for permission to both take a photo of them and to post it to this group. Get to know your subjects. Who are they? What is their life like?

Try to tell a small story with each photo you take. This may be a story about the person or how you felt approaching that particular individual. You may have, for example, tried a new approach or used a new photographic technique. Try to learn something from every encounter you make.

The first exercise allowed participants to watch back short films they made so they can learn from their mistakes. This learning-by-doing technique helped with the groups confidence.

Le Gulden Leeuw

Il repart ce mardi après son escale de la Pentecôte bassin Vauban. Les promeneurs du quai Saint-Louis ont pu admirer plusieurs jours l'élégante goélette à hunier à trois-mâts de 70 m de long construite en 1937 pour le ministère danois de l'agriculture et de la pêche. Racheté en 2007, il a été transformé pour devenir un voilier de croisière.

Voilier robuste

Le 'Gulden Leeuw' a été conçu et construit comme navire de catégorie supérieure, capable de naviguer sur les océans. En combinaison avec les gréements choisis, il deviendra un navire rapide et fiable. Nous voulons un navire qui sache vraiment naviguer à la voile. Les gréements ne doivent pas seulement servir de décoration, mais ils doivent aussi réellement disposer de bonnes dispositions pour naviguer à la voile. Le 'Gulden Leeuw' est une goélette à huniers à trois mâts; le mât avant est donc également à voiles carrées. Ces gréements très variés combinent les avantages d'un voilier à voiles carrées à ceux d'un navire à gréements longitudinaux. Vous pouvez naviguez près du vent ou prendre les vents alizés. Avec ce Grand Voilier, nous pouvons naviguer dans toutes les eaux internationales.

L'ambiance des années 30

Le style des années 30 fut caractérisé d'une part, par des matériaux précieux et somptueux, souvent réalisés à la main, décoratifs et luxueux. D'autre part, on recherchait les formes simples et fonctionnelles. Une excellente qualité et un niveau élevé de finition allaient de soi. Notre navire a été construit en 1937. On a pu conserver de très beaux détails authentiques. Nous revenons à nouveau à ces caractéristiques originales, ce qui donne à notre navire une ambiance merveilleuse.

Aménagement du pont

Le 'Gulden Leeuw' a un énorme pont central sur lequel tous les invités peuvent être présents en même temps. Ce pont central jouxte le rouf qui sera pourvu de grandes portes-fenêtres. Ce qui a pour avantage que le rouf et le pont central semblent former un grand espace. L'intérieur et l'extérieur sont réunis. Il sera possible de recouvrir le navire tout entier. Quand nous nous promenons sur le pont, nous passons par de très larges coursives où on placera des petits bancs chargés de nostalgie. Rien qu'à l'extérieur, on a déjà créé 170 places assises. Vous atteignez le sun-deck via le pont arrière.

Disposition à l'intérieur

Notre 'captains-VIP-lounge' jouxte le pont arrière. C'est un vaste espace avec un feu ouvert, habillage Chesterfield et une grande variété de bons whiskys et de cigares. C'est un endroit où on passe un moment à bavarder. Quand nous allons plus loin, nous passons devant le vestiaire dans le grand rouf, où vous trouvez un bar au centre. Si vous descendez l'escalier, vous arrivez à la salle à manger multifonctionnelle. Toutes les tables, toutes les chaises et toutes les banquettes peuvent être enlevées en un minimum de temps ou disposées d'une autre manière. Il est donc possible d'utiliser ce grand espace comme salle de danse, salle de séminaire ou dortoir, par exemple,

The Gulden Leeuw is one of the world's largest three-mast-topsail schooners, built under architecture, she has perfect sailing abilities. The ship has very high safety standard because of strict Dutch additional safety requirements on top of SOLAS requirements. Our professional crew consists of very well trained and experienced sailors which hold all required certificates. The (deck) layout of the Gulden Leeuw guarantees a safe learning environment. The Gulden Leeuw was built with the function of sail training in mind. We are passionate about sail training and are eager to "show you the ropes." As soon as you step on board we consider you as "one of the crew." On board our ship, we appreciate team spirit and an open atmosphere. Sailing is great! We also understand that you are there to meet others, see the world and have fun. We get that. You are very welcome to join us and become part of the team.

The ultimate goal is for the trainees to take over the ship. Therefore, everything is done by the trainees – from watch keeping to cleaning the deck. We believe it should be your vessel and your challenge. Our program makes it possible to find out what you like and where your qualities and personal challenges lie. Throughout the course of the journey, the trainees are provided with a sense of seafaring tradition and values, which are indispensable for life on board and within a close community. The group on board is an independent community, almost like a small town in terms of the challenges that it faces, which cannot be ignored and must be overcome. In doing so, personal commitment is promoted and reinforced. Due to the small size of the team in comparison to those on board large freight vessels, the trainees are able to assist in every area on board – from the ship’s management, right through to route planning. Learning by doing is what we do. Depending on the duration of a trip, it is also possible to go into further detail in some areas. Here, a primary focus is on training and encouraging the aspects of community and team-spirit.

The “Gulden Leeuw” is a big, sturdy sailing ship reminiscent of the 30’s and with the deck layout of a classic yacht.

This ship was built in 1937 on behalf of the Danish Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. The DANA was designed and built as an ocean-going ice class ship. During her period of service for the Danish government, she was frequently used for marine biological research, not only in Danish waters but also in international ones. The ship has a rich history. She sailed as a researcher, supplier and even as a training ship for a Danish nautical college.

In the past two years the ship has been converted into a three-masted topsail schooner, so the foremast is also yard-rigged. This very versatile rigging combines the advantages of a square-sailed ship and a fore-and-aft rigged ship.

The “Gulden Leeuw” offers space for up to 200 passengers on day sails and for 56 trainees on longer voyages. We are passionate about sail training and are eager to “show you the ropes”. On board our ship we appreciate team spirit.

The ship has a luxurious flair and is therefore also very suitable for corporate hospitality, seminars and day trips.

Le Gulden Leeuw

Il repart ce mardi après son escale de la Pentecôte bassin Vauban. Les promeneurs du quai Saint-Louis ont pu admirer plusieurs jours l'élégante goélette à hunier à trois-mâts de 70 m de long construite en 1937 pour le ministère danois de l'agriculture et de la pêche. Racheté en 2007, il a été transformé pour devenir un voilier de croisière.

Voilier robuste

Le 'Gulden Leeuw' a été conçu et construit comme navire de catégorie supérieure, capable de naviguer sur les océans. En combinaison avec les gréements choisis, il deviendra un navire rapide et fiable. Nous voulons un navire qui sache vraiment naviguer à la voile. Les gréements ne doivent pas seulement servir de décoration, mais ils doivent aussi réellement disposer de bonnes dispositions pour naviguer à la voile. Le 'Gulden Leeuw' est une goélette à huniers à trois mâts; le mât avant est donc également à voiles carrées. Ces gréements très variés combinent les avantages d'un voilier à voiles carrées à ceux d'un navire à gréements longitudinaux. Vous pouvez naviguez près du vent ou prendre les vents alizés. Avec ce Grand Voilier, nous pouvons naviguer dans toutes les eaux internationales.

L'ambiance des années 30

Le style des années 30 fut caractérisé d'une part, par des matériaux précieux et somptueux, souvent réalisés à la main, décoratifs et luxueux. D'autre part, on recherchait les formes simples et fonctionnelles. Une excellente qualité et un niveau élevé de finition allaient de soi. Notre navire a été construit en 1937. On a pu conserver de très beaux détails authentiques. Nous revenons à nouveau à ces caractéristiques originales, ce qui donne à notre navire une ambiance merveilleuse.

Aménagement du pont

Le 'Gulden Leeuw' a un énorme pont central sur lequel tous les invités peuvent être présents en même temps. Ce pont central jouxte le rouf qui sera pourvu de grandes portes-fenêtres. Ce qui a pour avantage que le rouf et le pont central semblent former un grand espace. L'intérieur et l'extérieur sont réunis. Il sera possible de recouvrir le navire tout entier. Quand nous nous promenons sur le pont, nous passons par de très larges coursives où on placera des petits bancs chargés de nostalgie. Rien qu'à l'extérieur, on a déjà créé 170 places assises. Vous atteignez le sun-deck via le pont arrière.

Disposition à l'intérieur

Notre 'captains-VIP-lounge' jouxte le pont arrière. C'est un vaste espace avec un feu ouvert, habillage Chesterfield et une grande variété de bons whiskys et de cigares. C'est un endroit où on passe un moment à bavarder. Quand nous allons plus loin, nous passons devant le vestiaire dans le grand rouf, où vous trouvez un bar au centre. Si vous descendez l'escalier, vous arrivez à la salle à manger multifonctionnelle. Toutes les tables, toutes les chaises et toutes les banquettes peuvent être enlevées en un minimum de temps ou disposées d'une autre manière. Il est donc possible d'utiliser ce grand espace comme salle de danse, salle de séminaire ou dortoir, par exemple,

The Gulden Leeuw is one of the world's largest three-mast-topsail schooners, built under architecture, she has perfect sailing abilities. The ship has very high safety standard because of strict Dutch additional safety requirements on top of SOLAS requirements. Our professional crew consists of very well trained and experienced sailors which hold all required certificates. The (deck) layout of the Gulden Leeuw guarantees a safe learning environment. The Gulden Leeuw was built with the function of sail training in mind. We are passionate about sail training and are eager to "show you the ropes." As soon as you step on board we consider you as "one of the crew." On board our ship, we appreciate team spirit and an open atmosphere. Sailing is great! We also understand that you are there to meet others, see the world and have fun. We get that. You are very welcome to join us and become part of the team.

The ultimate goal is for the trainees to take over the ship. Therefore, everything is done by the trainees – from watch keeping to cleaning the deck. We believe it should be your vessel and your challenge. Our program makes it possible to find out what you like and where your qualities and personal challenges lie. Throughout the course of the journey, the trainees are provided with a sense of seafaring tradition and values, which are indispensable for life on board and within a close community. The group on board is an independent community, almost like a small town in terms of the challenges that it faces, which cannot be ignored and must be overcome. In doing so, personal commitment is promoted and reinforced. Due to the small size of the team in comparison to those on board large freight vessels, the trainees are able to assist in every area on board – from the ship’s management, right through to route planning. Learning by doing is what we do. Depending on the duration of a trip, it is also possible to go into further detail in some areas. Here, a primary focus is on training and encouraging the aspects of community and team-spirit.

The “Gulden Leeuw” is a big, sturdy sailing ship reminiscent of the 30’s and with the deck layout of a classic yacht.

This ship was built in 1937 on behalf of the Danish Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. The DANA was designed and built as an ocean-going ice class ship. During her period of service for the Danish government, she was frequently used for marine biological research, not only in Danish waters but also in international ones. The ship has a rich history. She sailed as a researcher, supplier and even as a training ship for a Danish nautical college.

In the past two years the ship has been converted into a three-masted topsail schooner, so the foremast is also yard-rigged. This very versatile rigging combines the advantages of a square-sailed ship and a fore-and-aft rigged ship.

The “Gulden Leeuw” offers space for up to 200 passengers on day sails and for 56 trainees on longer voyages. We are passionate about sail training and are eager to “show you the ropes”. On board our ship we appreciate team spirit.

The ship has a luxurious flair and is therefore also very suitable for corporate hospitality, seminars and day trips.

Le Gulden Leeuw

Il repart ce mardi après son escale de la Pentecôte bassin Vauban. Les promeneurs du quai Saint-Louis ont pu admirer plusieurs jours l'élégante goélette à hunier à trois-mâts de 70 m de long construite en 1937 pour le ministère danois de l'agriculture et de la pêche. Racheté en 2007, il a été transformé pour devenir un voilier de croisière.

Voilier robuste

Le 'Gulden Leeuw' a été conçu et construit comme navire de catégorie supérieure, capable de naviguer sur les océans. En combinaison avec les gréements choisis, il deviendra un navire rapide et fiable. Nous voulons un navire qui sache vraiment naviguer à la voile. Les gréements ne doivent pas seulement servir de décoration, mais ils doivent aussi réellement disposer de bonnes dispositions pour naviguer à la voile. Le 'Gulden Leeuw' est une goélette à huniers à trois mâts; le mât avant est donc également à voiles carrées. Ces gréements très variés combinent les avantages d'un voilier à voiles carrées à ceux d'un navire à gréements longitudinaux. Vous pouvez naviguez près du vent ou prendre les vents alizés. Avec ce Grand Voilier, nous pouvons naviguer dans toutes les eaux internationales.

L'ambiance des années 30

Le style des années 30 fut caractérisé d'une part, par des matériaux précieux et somptueux, souvent réalisés à la main, décoratifs et luxueux. D'autre part, on recherchait les formes simples et fonctionnelles. Une excellente qualité et un niveau élevé de finition allaient de soi. Notre navire a été construit en 1937. On a pu conserver de très beaux détails authentiques. Nous revenons à nouveau à ces caractéristiques originales, ce qui donne à notre navire une ambiance merveilleuse.

Aménagement du pont

Le 'Gulden Leeuw' a un énorme pont central sur lequel tous les invités peuvent être présents en même temps. Ce pont central jouxte le rouf qui sera pourvu de grandes portes-fenêtres. Ce qui a pour avantage que le rouf et le pont central semblent former un grand espace. L'intérieur et l'extérieur sont réunis. Il sera possible de recouvrir le navire tout entier. Quand nous nous promenons sur le pont, nous passons par de très larges coursives où on placera des petits bancs chargés de nostalgie. Rien qu'à l'extérieur, on a déjà créé 170 places assises. Vous atteignez le sun-deck via le pont arrière.

Disposition à l'intérieur

Notre 'captains-VIP-lounge' jouxte le pont arrière. C'est un vaste espace avec un feu ouvert, habillage Chesterfield et une grande variété de bons whiskys et de cigares. C'est un endroit où on passe un moment à bavarder. Quand nous allons plus loin, nous passons devant le vestiaire dans le grand rouf, où vous trouvez un bar au centre. Si vous descendez l'escalier, vous arrivez à la salle à manger multifonctionnelle. Toutes les tables, toutes les chaises et toutes les banquettes peuvent être enlevées en un minimum de temps ou disposées d'une autre manière. Il est donc possible d'utiliser ce grand espace comme salle de danse, salle de séminaire ou dortoir, par exemple,

The Gulden Leeuw is one of the world's largest three-mast-topsail schooners, built under architecture, she has perfect sailing abilities. The ship has very high safety standard because of strict Dutch additional safety requirements on top of SOLAS requirements. Our professional crew consists of very well trained and experienced sailors which hold all required certificates. The (deck) layout of the Gulden Leeuw guarantees a safe learning environment. The Gulden Leeuw was built with the function of sail training in mind. We are passionate about sail training and are eager to "show you the ropes." As soon as you step on board we consider you as "one of the crew." On board our ship, we appreciate team spirit and an open atmosphere. Sailing is great! We also understand that you are there to meet others, see the world and have fun. We get that. You are very welcome to join us and become part of the team.

The ultimate goal is for the trainees to take over the ship. Therefore, everything is done by the trainees – from watch keeping to cleaning the deck. We believe it should be your vessel and your challenge. Our program makes it possible to find out what you like and where your qualities and personal challenges lie. Throughout the course of the journey, the trainees are provided with a sense of seafaring tradition and values, which are indispensable for life on board and within a close community. The group on board is an independent community, almost like a small town in terms of the challenges that it faces, which cannot be ignored and must be overcome. In doing so, personal commitment is promoted and reinforced. Due to the small size of the team in comparison to those on board large freight vessels, the trainees are able to assist in every area on board – from the ship’s management, right through to route planning. Learning by doing is what we do. Depending on the duration of a trip, it is also possible to go into further detail in some areas. Here, a primary focus is on training and encouraging the aspects of community and team-spirit.

The “Gulden Leeuw” is a big, sturdy sailing ship reminiscent of the 30’s and with the deck layout of a classic yacht.

This ship was built in 1937 on behalf of the Danish Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. The DANA was designed and built as an ocean-going ice class ship. During her period of service for the Danish government, she was frequently used for marine biological research, not only in Danish waters but also in international ones. The ship has a rich history. She sailed as a researcher, supplier and even as a training ship for a Danish nautical college.

In the past two years the ship has been converted into a three-masted topsail schooner, so the foremast is also yard-rigged. This very versatile rigging combines the advantages of a square-sailed ship and a fore-and-aft rigged ship.

The “Gulden Leeuw” offers space for up to 200 passengers on day sails and for 56 trainees on longer voyages. We are passionate about sail training and are eager to “show you the ropes”. On board our ship we appreciate team spirit.

The ship has a luxurious flair and is therefore also very suitable for corporate hospitality, seminars and day trips.