News
30.04.2011
A name change of OneWorldalc was scrapped and instead the brand name Nepali Gardens for all products was decided. A german non profit organisation (e.V.) for Himalayan Bio-dynamic developments is in process of registration at the same time with another non profit organisation for the support of a newly developped 3 year training program for nepali deprived youth on biodynamic agriculture on in OneWorldalc project lands. A Curriculum and cost evaluation has been finalized and first funding proposals have been handed in. A first support has been granted for the Chepang nursery development by the German Embassy Micro Project Fund. A deep felt Thank You to the Embassy and all people that have supported. Further grant proposals are in work for the BD Training Programme as well as for the Chepang Demeter conversion project. Nursery land has been leased and planting has begun, a well was dug and from 01.01.2011 conversion of about 100ha has begun.The businessplan has been finalised and survey results have been added. These can be received from the Kathmandu office if interested.
27.10.2010
A change of name is about to take place in 2011.
OneWorld alc will then be named “Nepali Gardens (P) Ltd”.
Two partner companies have been registered in Germany. For marketing/distribution the “Nepali Gardens UG” and for the development of green in vestments in Nepal the “Fair Himalayan Valleys UG”. A non-profit organization called “Bio-Dynamic Developments in the Himalaya e.V.” will be founded in 2011.
Various German and Swiss wholesalers have meanwhile begun to list our products.
A work camp with the anthroposophist youth organization “IDEM” has been conducted in the summer and the extension of the Chepang Initiative is now about to proceed. Land has been allocated for a large nursery and a building s rented. From 2011 an area of about 100ha will be converted to bio-dynamic agricultural techniques.
Until then a 5 Year business plan will be worked out with the help of the German foundation “manager without borders” and a survey will be conducted in order to define the economic and social present situation of the target group of 500 Chepang families with about 500ha of landholdings.
Project proposals to various donor agencies active in rural development in Nepal are in the making for 2011 by the newly founded local non profit organization “Himalyan Bio-Dynamic Developments Trust”.
from the 4.04.2010
At Easter 2010 for the first time bio-dynamic field preparation 500 (horn dung) was harvested at the Land of the Medicine Buddha. Now the cooperatives can be supplied with this vital ingredient. Simultaneously preparation 501 (horn silica) was buried for harvest in autumn 2010.
From the 12.02.2010
The Chepang tribe continues its reforestation:
A project to reforest the 318ha of forest that have been “slashed and burned” is now being financed by a foundation of UN-employees in Geneva. The project shall be financed over the course of 27 months, and is already underway.
On OneWorldalc and further projects:
Our collaboration with the foundation ‘Managers without Borders’ has expanded. Applications have been made for the sponsorship of six different projects, while an application for a seventh project is in the making. In this way over the next two to seven years the 400 families and 2500 people of the endangered Chepang tribe that make up the Praja cooperative will learn the bio-dynamic agricultural method. Step by step they will be able to apply it to their own land.
Other cooperatives will be strengthened or created.
The schooling of the Demeter farmer’s cooperative of Fulbari continues. The cooperative is made up of 150 families and around 800 people, and is supported through numerous marketing initiatives.
A project to protect the cultivation of medicinal herbs as well as the awareness campaign will make the efforts of the various projects sustainable.
The projects shall be executed over the course of three to seven years. The details of the individual projects and their further development shall be updated regularly in the news section of the website.
On the Land of the Medicine Buddha: T
his year’s harvest is now complete. The ayurvedic planting has resulted in a large harvest, although some herbs must be expanded further. Currently we are busy packing Demeter teas, and completing orders from Europe and the USA.
The first of our new variety of incense has now also been sold to Germany, and production on new stock has begun.
The first self-made bio-dynamic preparations are tucked away deep under ground to catch the winter.