Rainbow of Hope Horizons
traceability | care | trust | nourishment | participation | integration | regeneration
可追源｜关心｜信任｜营养｜参与｜结合｜恢复重生
Commitments
Good, Clean, Fair
- Ensuring competitive income for farm families
- Promoting good agricultural practices: permaculture,ecological,natural,traditional and regenerative farming
- No chemical fertilizers or pesticides, excessive antibiotics or growth hormones will ever be used in the growing of foods by supported farmers
- We do not plant or harbor GMOs
Our Near-Term Goals
Earth Care, People Care, Fair Share
- Increased diversity of heirloom products
- More competitive costs; make good food available to more people
- Food grown closer, reducing the carbon footprint and logistics costs
- Provide comfortable, traditional-style lodging on farms so our members and friends can visit to enjoy the production; stay longer to enjoy the scenery and pristine environment
- Engage professionals, encourage our urban and rural communities to establish recycling and reuse programs
Our Long-Term Goals
Global Regeneration
- Make our operations carbon neutral by providing renewable community-scale energy at our farms
- Scale regenerative farming practices by expanding the farming cooperatives network
- 100% reusable, recyclable or biodegradable packaging, free of harmful constituents.
- Make it easy for anyone to create and operate a CSA in any community - providing tools to make it run smoothly
FOUNDER
Stay tuned as we prepare to introduce our community sponsors,
farm caretakers, and the rest of the founding team!
请勿走开，我们即将介绍我们的社区支持人，农场管理以及创始团队！
Fred Young
杨宗强
Founder
菜园望守者
Formerly an English teacher and real-estate consultant, Fred Young is a passionate individual with an inspiring dream.
杨宗强曾经做过英语教师，从事过房地产咨询行业，是一个充满激情和梦想的人。
He spends most of his time promoting a vision of eco-communities that enrich both urban and rural lifestyles, and teaching about farming, community organizing, and NGO management. In the future, Fred hopes to spend more time nourishing, coordinating and educating the farm community.
他花费了自己大部分时间用来推广他的生态社区理念，用生态社区来丰富城市和乡村的生活方式，引导大家进行社区营造、耕种以及管理民间组织。杨宗强希望未来用更多的时间来培育、协调和引导乡村社区的发展。
The first youth of his village to attend university, Fred retired from the corporate world in 2008 and fearlessly returned to his hometown in West Hunan, giving back to his community by creating an organic farming business and the Rainbow of Hope program.
2008年杨宗强离开公司白领工作的世界，毅然决然回到他向西深山老家，通过创立有机农业产业和阳光三农计划来回报他们的老家。
