fredag 6. august 2010

BERGEN THE FUTURE CITY FOR AGRO TOURISM?

Ever heard of agro tourism?

It´s been going on for decades, going to Lofoten for fishing cod, Hardangervidda to harvest blueberries, Ulvik to see the fruit gardens, stay overnight in a cabin and get plums and apples,  Austevoll to find Chanterelle in the forests, while the wild sheep scare you to death surprising you behind a tree. If you grew up with an eager mother or father chanses are you have been an agro-tourist your self.

UNESCO is working, along side world heritages lists, to establish areas and sites to become BIOSPHERE RESERVES. The purpose of creating Biosphere Reserves is to encourage sustainable development and economic development in areas of particularly high landscape values.

The Moors with extent from Austevoll  to Lofoten along the coast of Norway, and from Portugal to England on the other side of the Atlantic has a cultural history of 5000 years. Wild sheep is part of keeping this landscape healthy, and the sheep raised on moors is exceptionally tasty.

Will the Moors of the West coast of Bergen achieve Biosphere Reserve status and can this and other projects become attractive targets for agro-tourism in the 22nd century?

Will Bergen become known as the city of rhubarb, potatoes and forest gardening rather than "the city of rhododendron"?




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