FreOne News¶

* Daily Nation: Seeds of Gold¶

Published Fri, 16 Oct 2020 05:00:00 GMT

Description: Recommended: Daily Nation - Seeds of Gold. This rubric often has informative articles regarding farming. For instance this article about the growing of garlic.

See: Daily Nation - Growing garlic.

* Project Farming: pilot project in Uganda¶

Published Wed, 14 Oct 2020 18:00:00 GMT

Description: In August Juliet and Moses started to farm garlic on a small piece of land. It’s a low budget project meant to gain experience with small scale farming. First harvest is expected to be possible in November but the cloves will still be very small by then, they will need a couple of more months to mature.

See: Intranet site: Uganda: first steps

* Project Market: introduction¶

Published Thu, 08 Oct 2020 00:00:01 GMT

Description: Project Market is about collecting market prices of crops, in order to help small scale farmers with selling their produce and help to plan what kind of crops to grow next time. Knowledge about the prices, current and from the past, will be helpful in planning.

See: Intranet site: Project Market.

* Project Farming: introduction¶

Published Thu, 08 Oct 2020 00:00:00 GMT

Description: Small scale farming is not an easy thing to do. There are many pitfalls that prevent aspiring farmers from making a profit. This project collects experiences from farmers and offers assistance in order to grow crops successfully.

See: Intranet site: Project Farming.

* Recommended: the Flym RSS Reader¶

Published Wed, 07 Oct 2020 00:01:10 GMT

Description: A RSS reader can be used to read news articles from sites supporting this protocol. There are many RSS readers available, for instance the open source app Flym aimed at Android phones. The nice thing about Flym is that it doesn’t collect userdata nor contains ads and still is completely free to use.

In case you want to give this reader a try:

(this is just my personal favorite at the moment, and not an ad :)

Installation on an Android phone:

Search for “Flym News Reader” in the Google Play Store.
Install and open the app.
Click on “OK” if Flym ask you to add a feed.
Type https://freone.org/rss.xml” in the search field (without the quotes).
Press the magnifier at the right.
Close this search window and open the feed that now has become visible in the welcome screen.
Pull down the image at the center to load the feeds.
Congratulations, you just added the FreOne News feeds to the app.

Tips:

Click on an article to read a synopsis. A click on the “hamburger” at the top right (second icon from the right) will retrieve the whole text of the article.
Articles that you have read will dissapear from the default “Unreads” list. Click the “All” icon at the bottom to view previously read items.
By default read items will be deleted after four days, this can be changed in “settings”.

See: Flym on Google Play.

* First Post of FreOne News¶

Published Wed, 07 Oct 2020 00:01:00 GMT

Description: FreOne News is online. RSS feed: https://freone.org/rss.xml.

Welcome to the first post of FreOne News. You can read our news with help of a RSS-reader if you want. If you don’t have one installed on your (Android) phone yet I recommend an open source reader called Flym.

The news items mostly refer to our intranet site FreOne.Net that’s accessible for FreOnes participants and invited guests.