Activities

A “Hold-Up” is a one hour and a half creativity workshop which gathers fifteen persons maximum and focuses on solving a concrete challenge of a social entrepreneur farmer who is fulltime on his/her project, even if only at the idea stage. Anyone can participate, no need to be an expert. A “Hold-Up” uses design thinking and creativity techniques to help the participants give and share many ideas at first and turn them into three or four applicable solutions at the end. For instance, “Hold-Ups” have helped farmers to design innovative agro-ecological techniques (e.g. growing shiitake mushrooms on brewery waste and breeding insects with the mycelium in Belgium), to organize a crowdfunding campaign to finance the implementation of these innovations (e.g. to buy the animals and learn how to use animal-drawn sledges in Spain), to organize a participatory practical session to apply the innovations on the field (e.g. to build raised garden beds inspired from the Austrian hugelkultur technique, in France), to find solutions to optimize the use of resources (e.g. to create a system to collect the organic waste of a consumers group in order to transform it in organic compost for the farmers).