Hi!
We finally finished our project about "The apple, more than "just" a local product" and we are happy to present the final post on "Befter" right here: https://dontwastemy.energy/2020/01/22/the-apple-more-than-just-a-local-product/
Thanks to all people supporting our team and project with interviews, filming, correcting, sources and of course for the mental support.
We wish you a pleasant reading time and please feel free to leave a comment below!
Best,
Tamara, Simone, Stefanie
Hi you,
You might have read our post from the filming day with a drone. During winter holidays we collected different pieces of videos and the next step was now to put them together to a nice video.
First of all, we had to decide on which pieces we really want to use for the video, we trimmed them to good sizes to make sure everything fits together as well as found a relaxing music track. The video has been put together with the program "Filmora9" with help of a friend (as it was also his program). This part was very time comsuming as it was not as easy as though to decide on "the best" material. After having trimmed them, we adjusted the speed of the different parts and inserted pictures with quotes from the interview, whichs' spelling had been checked by another friend before.
The finale post on befter will follow soon.
Tamara, Simone, Stefanie
Summary Evaluation of the survey on the life cycle of a local product
Costumers are the important people for farmers as they buy their products, that is also why it was important to obtain not only information from experts, but also opinions and views of the population on the subject "Growth of a local product". For this reason, we started a survey in which we wanted to find out the apple varieties known to the population and additional questions about the cultivation and process of production.
More...
Hi guys,
For the next step of my project, I have decided to conduct a survey.
The main goal of this survey is to find people's thoughts on organic farming, chemical fertilizers and harsh farming techniques. Through this survey I am trying to find out whether people think that organic farming could help us and is it sustainable?
Link to the survey, please send it to all your friends and colleagues!
=> https://ee.kobotoolbox.org/::SeeCSYTc
Many thanks for your support!
Sivani from Kerala, India
More...
In addition to the development of an apple, our project also aims to analyse the effects of apple production on the climate. For the necessary information we have contacted the agricultural school Strickhof in Lindau and have done research on the internet to supplement this.
Apple production has both positive and negative effects on the climate. Every production process has a negative impact on the climate, including the use of machinery, pesticides etc. in apple production. But with apple production a new plant grows, which takes the CO2 out of the atmosphere and produces oxygen from it. The change in the climate in apple production is mainly noticeable in the fact that weather extremes such as frost, hail etc. are increasing. Due to climate change, new investments had to be made in the area of weather protection for apple trees. Many plantations have to be irrigated (bewässert) by longer periods of drought. However, climate change is making it possible to grow thermophilic crops such as apricot trees in regions where this was previously not possible. The ecological footprint of an apple depends on the variety. Depending on how long an apple can be kept and which measures are taken to extend its shelf life (Haltbarkeit), more or less greenhouse gases are released. If a lot of effort is put into the shelf life (Haltbarkeit) of an apple, it is quite possible that an apple imported by ship from abroad will emit fewer greenhouse gases. In today's society, we want to have apples and other fruits on offer at any time. This also applies even if it is not in season. In order not to interrupt the supply of apples, we have to store and import apples. For a better ecological footprint, the supply of apples should be limited to the apple season in Switzerland. The production of apples is highly professional. Companies produce apples that meet the requirements of the trade and consumers. Changes would only be possible if the demands of the trade and consumers changed.
Stefanie Kunz, Simone Etter, Tamara Keller, TZ19, Wetzikon
Filming Day on the Farm - drone video
Some weeks ago we did an interview with the Farmer, Mr Keller. As pictures and videos bring closer looks into projects, we decided to go for it. A friend of mine flies drons and offered us new opportunities for the project.
On Thursday, 2nd January 2020 the day finally came, it was an incredibly cold afternoon, after two hours of filming, the feet were already frozen and of course the hands as well. We were really happy and lucky to get a cup of tea afterwards to defrost ourselves.
The filming was very interesting, the drone flew from here to there, back, and did some turns... absolutely flexible! Check our finale post on befter (coming soon) to watch the video.
Cheers,
Simone, Tamara, Stefanie
Summary of the Interview with the local farmer Martin Keller
The journey to the local farm was a great experience as we learned a lot about apples and gained knowledge about farming. Martin Keller didn’t just told us the answers to our questions, he also showed us the apple plantation, other fruit trees and told us about differences between the sorts, he gave us apples and apple cider (Apfelmost) to try and he told us different stories about his job which actually is also a big part of his life.
Arriving at the farm, first of all, Martin showed us around. Interestingly, the local farmer owns more than 12 different sorts of apples as well as pears, cherries, grapes but also horses, cows and the naughty (frech) cat called Flocke.
The lifecycle of an apple trees starts with choosing and growing the baby tree, they are grown in tree nurseries (Baumschulen) and can bought with an age of one or two years. Martin Keller personally tend to buy two years old trees as first apples can be harvested from the apple trees third living-year on. More...
! WE NEED YOUR HELP !
Hi together
We did a survey for our projekt "the lifecycle of a local product".
With our survey we want to find out the behaviour and the view of diffrent humans about the production of apples.
We would appreciate if you could take a few minutes to fill in our online survey.
Here you can find the link to our survey:
survey-local product
Thank you very much for your participation in our survey!
Stefanie Kunz, Simone Etter, Tamara Keller, BM2 Teilzeit 2019
Our ideas work like a "multiplicator-effect" as they go hand in hand..
In our future, there will be more local production raised everywhere in Switzerland, hence, short paths of distribution will be given. Therefore, also direct purchase from farmer to clients will be more promoted than today. Encouraging national products - swiss apples - incstead of imports, will not only help increasing the amount of growing apples but also gross domestic product (GDP/BIP).
Tamara, Simone and Stefanie
What are your today's goals? Who is responsible?
- This post, definition of our goals for this lesson (Simone)
- Do the imagination-step (Stefanie)
- Answering e-mails
- to our teammate from India (Stefanie)
- to Strickhof, Lindau (Tamara)
- Typewrite questions 1 to 5 of the interview we made with a local farmer (Simone)
- Finalize questions for the survey we have planned (Tamara)
At the end of the lesson we will check if we reached our goals:
Goal achieved
Goal not achieved -> we achieved every goal! :-)
Tamara, Stefanie, Simone
Zurich, Switzerland
Have you ever been to a farm checking out how apples are growing? An apple is always worth it since all of us know: "An apple a day keeps the doctor away." We went to a local farmer recently, he showed us the plantation and told us about the harvest. It was very interesting to gain more knowledge about the relation between climate and the apple lifecycle. Stay with us and we keep you posted, cheers!
