Inspirational idea: Finding new in the old, reviving former links between forest and agricultural land

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Geographical scope	Spain Galicia
Keywords	Farming practice organic farming sustainable forestry practice

Innovation usually makes us think of new ideas, something ground breaking and never done before. But innovation can also come about when we develop previous methods or revive a technique that has long been forgotten. Abonos Lourido is a company producing organic potting soil and fertilisers in Galicia (Spain) which drew inspiration from former farming techniques for forest and agricultural land. It led them not only to come up with many new entrepreneurial ideas, but it also contributed to preventing forest fires as well as reducing the use of chemical fertilisers by reinstating the natural nutrient cycle.

Find out how they did this by reading the full article

Publication date:

Monday, 11 August, 2014 - 09:45

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