I’ll start with a quote from Jessica. She left a long voice note with news from the finca –

“So that was an 8 minute update of positive things from Boodaville Caseres, we should celebrate these things, it’s a good week – you’re getting paid by Boodaville and things in Boodaville are going well.“

boodaville now has employees

It is true! Starting on Monday I am a contracted employee of the Boodaville Association! This has been years coming. We also got paid the money we’ve been waiting for from the UE (5 hours before the loan we had arranged arrived!) so everyone got reembursed finally this week and I no longer have to mess people around. The list of URGENT economic management tasks has been reduced to 0!!!

rovira regenerativa

The most exciting thing this week was a zoom meeting yesterday to share ideas about the possible Life Funding bid. Thanks so much to the people who expressed interest and came along to support – Alex, Sara, Alessandro, Ana, Gas, Aina. If you are interested pass me your email and I can send the information across. The best thing about the meeting was that the follow-up was to send our idea to the consultancy company and once that was done… my to do list is finished! Ususally a meeting is the beginning of a job list – so this was super!! The idea was well received by the group and the most interesting outcome is that Ana – our neighbour in the Vall Rovira is keen to know more, and has a wealth of information about who the land owners are and who is ready to sell. The “Mas Fantasma” which has always been the ideal spot for building an education centre (since our first visit in January 2020!!) is NOT for sale. In addition to this limiting factor – Mas Fantasma neighbours the land Ana bought in 2021 and she is not best pleased about the idea of the centre being within earshot! So we will meet and talk much more about the project in April and see what options would work for the building, and central hub of the regenertive agriculture project. 

OPPORTUNITIES 2023 AND EU PROJECTS

It has been a good week for getting things done :

• We filled the places for YWT in Portugal (maybe we did that last week actually!!)
• We have enough applicants for Active Permaculture – but are open to receive more applications until 10 April
• We have promoted the RegenerACTion youth exchange in Portugal but are still missing a few people
• For June at Sanilles we will start promotion middle of April
• Volunteering 2023 – We have planned the rest of the year!! We will expand the Boodaville Caseres team and stick with just Emma in Barcelona. We are looking for two volunteers to take positions for 7-9 months and start between the 1 May and the 1 June and 1 volunteers to take a 4 month position starting in September. These are funded positions for young people (under 30) and we can accept applications from Spain and the rest of Europe.  Application deadline 14/04/2023

everybody is gardening

In Poble Sec, Barcelona Emma has taken on a plot in the community garden to run and implement permaculture design for the rest of the year. The other plot that Boodaville manages with the families from Tres Pins school is doing really well and we are eating lettuce, chard and spinach every week. We will organise a workshop there on a Sunday in April to demonstrate our water retention techniques, planting design, and will add compost and biochar to the garden. 

In Boodaville Caseres the volunteers have designed and are now planting out the beds we have on the finca for annual vegetales. We only have two, and they are drought resistant “wicking beds”. We don’t have enough water for more! And we don’t plant in the ground as the soil quality is not good enough and the heat and the plants don’t thrive in the dry hot conditions. 

DOUGHNUT ECONOMICS

The other step forward this week is that I have booked dates for the Doughnut Economics workshops I’m offering as part of the SPARK project. They are trainings of 4 hours with two session and will be in Spanish, 

Save the date!!

Poble Sec: Thursday 20th April and Thursday 4th May 18:30 – 20:30

Fabrica del Sol: Thursday 18th May and Thursday 1st June 18:30 – 20:30

CHARLA Y TALLER PARA PRESENTAR LAS IDEAS DE ECONOMÍA DE DONUT.

ESTE MODELO DE UNA NUEVA ECONOMIA PARA EL SIGLO 21 QUE TIENE COMO OBJETIVO “CUBRIR LAS
NECESIDADES DE LA HUMANIDAD SIN EXCEDER LOS LÍMITES DEL PLANETA”.

LA PRIMERA SESIÓN ES UNA EXPLORACIÓN DEL MODELO Y ADOPTAR LA IDEA DE QUE PROSPERAR NO ES
SINÓNIMO DE CRECER.

LA SEGUNDA SESIÓN ES PARA COMPARITR IDEAS DE “ECONOMÍA REGENERATIVA” Y EJEMPLOS DE COMO SE PUEDE APLICAR ECONOMIA DE DONUT EN UNA EMPRESA.