Location:
Nowina, Henrykow, Poland
Problem Overview:
Small farms, rural way of life threatened
More than a million small Polish farms (less than 7 hectares) are threatened by the coming entry of Poland to the European Union, which favors large conventional farms and methods which are harmful to health and the environment, the traditional landscape and biodiversity, and which would uproot small farmers and create further unemployment, migration to unhealthy, overcrowded cities, and destruction of the rural culture and way of life.
Background:
My name is Jerzy Trawinski. I was born in 1962 and spent my childhood near the Cistertian abbey in Henrykow in Southwestern Poland. Next to the abbey there was an agricultural school where my parents worked as teachers. The school had its own horseback riding club. I was ten when I first rode a horse together with my brothers