Trip to Suchowola, Poland, Podlasie region from 30 August to 1 September 2024

(A travel report by Heike Zeller, PeaceBread member, consultant, presenter and owner aHEU – Regional Marketing Strategies) Six of us travelled to Podlasie – a beautiful region in the east of Poland, bordering Lithuania to the north and Belarus to the east. Ukraine is not far to the south. Arable farming, meadows, fallow land, forests, […]

Rye harvest at the Polish PeaceBread partner

Suchowoła, 08.08.2019: The Harvest Festival in Suchowoła will take place on August, 18th and will be organized this year by a folk art group from Moniek. Below are photos from the harvest of the European PeaceBread rye from 2016 and 2017 in Suchowoła. The harvest festival was organized by a folk art group working at […]

300 Years Suchowola – Polish PeaceBread celebrates anniversary

The mayor of Suchowola awards Dr. Gibfried Schenk, managing director of the PeaceBread Association with the city´s medal of merit Suchowola. June 4th 2017. Around 100 guests of honour of mayors Michal Matyskiel, long-standing partner and ambassador of the European PeaceBread project are meeting together at 10 o’clock in front of the citizens´office in Suchowola. […]

Latvia passes on European PeaceBread

From the former death strip in Berlin via Latvia to Poland Handover ceremony at International Green Week On 17 January 2015 and to the applause of the Latvian Minister of Agriculture Jānis Dūklavs and other high-ranking representatives of Polish and Latvian Ministries of Agriculture, Latvian undersecretary of state Dace Lucaua handed over the European PeaceBread […]

Jointly for peace through agriculture

Members of the association PeaceBread (Friedensbrot e.V.) visit their Polish friends for the harvest of the field of rye in Suchowola Warsaw, Berlin, 30.07.2014. There are special guests in Suchowola, in close proximity to the birthplace of Solidarnosc-priest Jerzy Popiełuszko. Members of the association PeaceBread (FriedensBrot e.V.) Anton Blöth, Dr. Marion Schenk and Dr. Gibfried […]

Minister Marek Sawicki: Together we should take care about taking full advantage of the yield potential of the European agriculture

Warsaw, 29.07.2014: Visit in the Ministry o Agriculture and Rural Development The managing director of PeaceBread Association (FriedensBrot e.V.) Dr. Gibfried Schenk had the opportunity to meet Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development of the Republic of Poland. The meeting was attended by Mr Robert Piłat, Deputy director in the Departement of International Cooperation of […]

German Minister Schmidt thanked Minister Sawicki for Poland’s commitment in the European initiative entitled “Chleb Pokoju” (PeaceBread)

Press Release of Polish Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development from May, 26, 2014 with reference to PeacBread project: Today the Minister Marek Sawicki received the Minister for Food and Agriculture of Germany, Christian Schmidt. The meeting was also attended by the ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Poland, Rolf Nikel. The visit […]

“Pathway to Freedom” – text-music-ensemble composed by students in Suchowola for the sowing of the PeaceBread rye

We have received a report from Artur LAJEWSKI today about an impressive event on the occasion of sowing the rye in Suchowola, Poland: On 19 September 2013, we have sown the rye in Suchowola. From this rye, grain will be grown for the European PeaceBread, then to be shared out in Berlin in 2014. The […]

Sowing of “PeaceBread” rye in Poland on 19 September 2013

Colleagues from the school complex in Suchowola sent out an invitation to “PeaceBread” this week to join the sowing of the Polish “PeaceBread” rye on 19 September 2013. Unfortunately, and due to other appointments, no representative of “FriedensBrot e.V.” (association “PeaceBread”) was able to participate. On behalf of the Board of “Friedensbrot e.V.” (association “PeaceBread”), […]

Minister Stanislaw KALEMBA: “More respect for food!“

During a personal meeting in the Polish Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in Warsaw on 29 July 2013, the general manager of the association FriedensBrot e.V. (Association PeaceBread) had the opportunity to explain the objectives and up-to-date results of the PeaceBread project to Minister Stanislaw KALEMBA. The invitation was initiated through Dorota BIAŁCZAK, member […]