Veintidós

Veintidós

intentional communities - some personal thoughts

As Eco Hacker Farm, Veintidos and Kuckucksmuehle all expand and more people get involved with the different projects at different levels and at different frequencies I find myself defining and stepping up my pace to answer questions, exploring new perspectives and considering new areas

I'm finally breaking free! - Help me get over the last hurdle :-D

dear friends :-) It has been such a pleasure to host travellers and dreamers all this last year and a half, together we had impromptu road trips, camping trips, rescue missions, karaoke, new year celebrations, jam sessions, workshops, philosophical discussions, shared experiences and had

dreamboarding on a sunday

pictures by Sam Webb Another successful event with 14 people attending our healthy lunch, dreamboard and meditation session, this has been the 3rd session so far and people always ask

donations

contagious inspiration

One of our visitors who was couchsurfing for a couple of days got to see our donation box in action when we happened to be hosting someone who arrived with

compost

composting todo avante

written by Jason Knight One thing that I noticed once I had seen the garden here at Veintidós was the size of the compost, or rather the lack of size

permaculture

2016 & moving Veintidós

The project has been in Mijas for the last year, with the help of volunteers we have managed to turn an overgrown garden into a terraced beautiful growing space with

recycling

scavenging

written by Jason Knight The word scavenging, isn't something that one normally associates with the green movement or environmentalism. It has a distinctively negative connotation to it, something that is

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Rocking a recycled speaker planter

written by Jason Knight Ecohackerfarm is big on recycling and reusing materials that other people have deemed as useless rubbish and tossed out into the garbage. Almost everything we buy

recycling

the making of a pinboard

written by Jason Knight One of my first tasks when I arrived to Aimee's place was to make a pin board where she could stick all types of things like

Meditation & Dreamboard workshop with tasty vegan lunch

It was interesting to see so many people who attended that were really open minded and interested in the workshop and the project. We started off with a guided meditation

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What a day!

The open day at Veintidós was a great success! We met new nice people and returning visitors to the project. We covered questions in relation to the ever increasing risk of drought in the region, how to conserve water, how to compete naturally with

volunteering

seed organiser

As the seed stock list has now been set up, one of the volunteers was tasked with creating a seed organiser box which she really took in her stride and

volunteering

seed stocklist

As the garden now has many more beds available for planting at Veintidós it's becoming more important to know what seeds we have available and when these can be planted,

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the end of the landscaping project

We started landscaping the garden with the help of volunteers back in November 2015, the garden was so overgrown that we couldn't even see the steps leading up to the upper part of it. I'm so pleased to report that now all the terracing

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seed swapping

During the last few months we were very lucky to attract couchsurfers and visitors to our project who donated seeds either to plant or to be able to swap again.

re-growing vegetables - lettuce

After reading online that you could re-grow lettuce from a stump I just had to try it. Frankly I wasn't too convinced but after 1 day in a cup it was obvious to me that it had worked the lettuce was growing. I think

companion planting in practice - part 2

With help from a volunteer we have finally managed to transcribe the companion planting chart into a filterable spreadsheet. I still need to go through it and test it for accuracy and function but it should be ready to go shortly. I would also

managing workawayers & volunteers

As I work full time in quite a stressful job it is sometimes hard for me to manage both my job and my volunteers at the same time. Having conversations over dinner on what has been done during the day works to both keep

The ball's rolling @Veintidós

At Veintidós we have done quite a lot of progress events being organised to meet people who are interested in the project. It's also attracted the attention of another project which I'm keen to visit. We would like to keep the informal community event

permaculture

Super excited about Veintidós

I can barely contain myself as I type this... after quite a lot of thought and soothing insecurities and fear I finally finished working on the material for Veintidós. The

Researching & Experimenting with plant companions

As I was planting the garden in March I noticed that it was a little difficult for me to not plant the seedlings in a row, it may seem like a insignificant detail but this symptomatic of ingrained learned behaviour about farming that will

companion planting in practice - part 1

In bed 1 I haven' yet got any plants but the ground is ready, I was experimenting in bed 2 with some newspaper mulching - which was basically just layers