Bayramiç Yeniköy is an NGO aiming to create a self-sustaining village based on permaculture principles and design in the Çanakkale Province in the Marmara region of North-Western Turkey. Yeniköy community is well known for its focus on the production of local seeds, the application of natural farming and alternative economic models based on sharing surplus. Since its inception, Bayramiç Yeniköy has hosted and provided a range of hands-on trainings and workshops about all relevant aspects of ecological living such as permaculture, community building, natural farming, food security and local seed saving, production and exchange. Its educational activities address different target groups, both local, national and international. Like other members of the Turkish EKOYER network, the organisation strives to pioneer a change in how communities sustain a living throughout Turkey. It actively promotes the restoration of agricultural production in rural areas around ecological settlements.
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