MISSION POSSIBLE
Our mission is to develop and promote practices that provide food and other resources for humans while enhancing biodiversity.
HOW DO WE DO THIS?
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  • Researching, designing and implementing systems on the ground
  • Providing working examples of our designs at our sites open for the public to visit (by appointment)
  • Providing quality education and training to aspiring growers and landscapers
  • Practicing an open source policy, whereby we disseminate our results freely and share all aspects of our work
  • Growing, selling and promoting the use of plants and plant communities that have high ecological and nutritional value
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OUR GOALS
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  • Encourage people, specifically young people, to get started in business centered around the quality biological production of food in systems that protect and enhance biodiversity
  • Deliver models that require low initial investment and are easy to replicate
  • Expand our research to focus on the productivity and habitat provisions of our perennial polycultures. 
  • Provide inspiration, and high quality training/education to would be start-up producers backed up with effective support in order to facilitate a network of successful biological food producing businesses
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THE TEAM
In 2010 Paul Alfrey founded the Balkan Ecology Project with aims to develop and promote practices that provide nutritious affordable food while enhancing biodiversity and to provide a world class example of a regenerative landscape at their site. Paul, Sophie and their two boys Dylan and Archie moved to Bulgaria from the UK in 2005,  before which Paul worked as an arborist, running a tree care business in the suburbs of South London and Sophie as a registered nurse. Inspired by the widespread practice of locally grown food and the incredible biodiversity of Bulgaria they started to develop a productive ecological garden for themselves and began to share what they were learning. Currently Paul and Dylan are working fulltime on the project.  

Balkan Ecology Project activities currently include; Plant Nursery - Educational Courses - Local Land Stewardship - Polyculture Research - Market Gardening​ - Consultancy and Design ​
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PROFIT PLEDGE
Profits from our activities are used to purchase land with high ecological value. The land, once under our stewardship, is managed with respect for its inherent value and vital ecosystem support.   


Balkan Ecology Project