Please read our 5th Newsletter in Hungarian, about our International project meeting in the Czech Republic. 

The Diversity Foundation arranged the project's 4th Focus group meeting in September. It focuses on the used marketing and sales strategies of social farms. How a social farm be able to work in a sustainable way, what are the good examples, what are the obstacles, what they struggle with. What kind of knowledge is missing in the field of eceonomic viability, financial, marketing, sales? All the participants let know the audience concerning the above mentioned topics how it works in their organisation. 
​Participants:
Patrónus Ház
Earth Country House Social Coopperative
Összefogás Nonprofit Kft
Gödöllői Civil Kerekasztal Egyesület
Felemás Egyesület
Nefelejcs Értelmi Sérültek Nappali Foglalkoztatója
Farm Alapú Nevelés Egyesület
Fébé Evangélikus Otthon
Zsámboki biokert
Zöld Edit biogazdálkodó
Illés Eszter, waldorf oktató-kertész

Here you can watch the video about our training in Agricoltura Capodarco, the good example Social Farm in Italy. They work from 40 years near to Rome. 

The Social Garden Gödöllő works nicely, here is a video about. 

We come to you with our 4th newsletter. It is in Hungarian, about our training week in the UK at Plas Dwbl Coleg in Wales.

Good news in our project life. Our project partner (Diverzitás Alapítvány) just opened the gate of the Social Garden in Gödöllő. Enjoy this short film about the beginnings.
Also, if you are interested in social farming and how they do it in Gödöllő, please follow them on facebook: ​https://www.facebook.com/diverzitasalapitvany/

Our 3rd Focus group meeting was arranged in the middle of March 2019. The topic was about the cooperation between the Hungarian social actors. The participants were asked about their already existing cooperation activities and also we asked their oppinion about the operation of the future mentor-network. Varga Tamás, the head of WWOOF Hungary, introduced the technical possibilities about it, and the participants shared with us their views. We got feedbacks like they would need professionals in the networks, who could be asked by the participants. Also they thought the place of it would be good the LLOOF website, the form of it a "forum" kind. We also discussed about the cooperation in sale, we shared our existing experiences in cooperation and the non existing social farming law. Participants were the Earth Country House Szociális Szövetkezet, Patrónus Ház, Dombtető Póni klub, GDCKE and the Nyitott Kert Alapítvány

This video is about Ruskin Mill Trust and the PSTE method, that was invented by Aonghus Gordon and his staff. The video was made during our training in May 2018. This method gives the basis of our training, enjoy and learn. 

We are happy can let you know about the good news, our partner organisation (Diversity Foundation) starts to operate the Social Garden of Gödöllő in 2019. They are enthusiastic and full with plans. They will organize volunteer days where waiting for similar enthusiastic garden lovers. Follow them here: https://www.facebook.com/diverzitasalapitvany

The 2nd focus group meeting focused on the applied/well-established methods with disabled and/or disadvantaged people by the farm management. Discussed questions on the 2nd focus group meeting were:
- Are there any development method for disadvantaged/disabled people in your institute?
- What’s your methodology and how can you measure it’s efficiency? Do you consider suitable the current methods?
The participants were interested in the measurement method (Three Stage Process) of Ruskin Mill Trust. Matthew Hayes participated and he let us know briefly in the topic as he spent the last two years in the UK as employee of the RMT. Participants agreed, social farms in Hungary are developing in other system than in Western Europe, they grow rather from social institutes than farms. Social farms need to stand on several legs, for example work out services for paying costumers (e.g. addicted people) as well.
Besides that there was some useful suggestions about the pilot training timing. The participants prefer February, March, April as the most suitable months for the training and somebody suggested would be effective if 2 participants could take part from one institute (financial expert, social expert).

Participants:
Értelmi Sérültek Gyöngyház Egyesülete;
ESSRG Kutatócsoport;
Fóti Waldorf iskola;
Patrónus Ház;
Nefelejcs Értelmi Fogyatékosok Napközi Otthona;
Farm Alapú Nevelésért Egyesület;
FELE-MÁS Egyesület;
Zsámboki Biokert;
Csömöri Összefogás Nonprofit Kft.