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Plans for Boodaville

Update on the current situation and on the future projects

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Oct 25 2019

What actually happened in 2018 with the legal issues?

The police first came by during the fiesta in May 2018 and they told us to stop any camping on site. But then they came back, and kept coming back every few weeks to ask questions and make us feel uncomfortable. This was a big wake up call to re-activate the process of permission for the buildings, but we ran into problems and had a rather distressing realisation: that the eco-village plan is not a legal possibility. In September we started thinking about a new path for the project, and then in October 2018 we received a fine for 400 euros and decided to close up for winter.

What is the grand plan you have now?

We have a new proposal for a project that is BIG, I shared it at Maranya Festival and now it’s time to take the first steps…

We want to change education, change farming, and regenerate the ecosystem in the Vall Rovira. (doesn’t everyone? I mean the world isn’t going great right now)

We are looking for a small dedicated team of people to create a substantial long-term project. This includes funding, permaculture design, education, bioconstruction, farming, management, organisation and motivated hardworking people.

If you think this sounds amazing, it is! READ MORE HERE

What activities are you doing this year 2019?

This year we ran a youth exchange with participants staying in the local village, but it was very difficult logistically and we are not in a rush to repeat it. We also have 4 long term volunteers who live in the village and go by bike to Boodaville every morning. Part of their job is to share and educate about permaculture via social media, since no-one actually comes to visit!

We upscaled the festival and moved to a new and brilliant location, it is now the Maranya Festival, and it took place in May 2019.

In the end it has been outstandingly positive to collaborate with the local village Caseres. We are sharing our permaculture designs with the locals and working together with the mayor and the local government there. The idea of “community” has shifted from being an “eco-village” of a few people in the valley, to being a collaboration with a wider network of people. In the end, if there are empty houses in the village, and it’s only 15 mins by bike to the site… do we really need to build houses in the valley? Is the whole project richer for being more open and collaborative, and impacting local people?

What is the future of the Boodaville site?

The long-term vision of what will happen at Boodaville has changed, and we are now looking towards a future as an educational demonstration site offering 2 or 3 courses a year, and undergoing the rest of the activities as day visits only. The process to do this legally is underway, but will take months or longer. We are developing a “Social Interest Report” to demonstrate to the local council why our activities should continue, and we will then work with Rafa, a man who knows about planning permission, and the local mayor, to agree on what measures need to be taken for health and safety to do this.

Next year, 2020 we are planning a quiet year on site, with no volunteers and no activities while we go through this process.

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Oct 25 2019

¿Qué sucedió en 2018 con los problemas legales?

La policía vino por primera vez durante la fiesta en mayo de 2018 y nos dijeron que detuviéramos cualquier campamento en el sitio. Pero luego regresaron, y seguían regresando cada pocas semanas para hacer preguntas y hacernos sentir incómodos. Esta fue una gran llamada de atención para reactivar el proceso de autorización de los edificios, pero tuvimos problemas y nos dimos cuenta de que el plan de ecoaldea no era una posibilidad legal. En septiembre comenzamos a pensar en un nuevo camino para el proyecto, y luego en octubre 2018 recibimos una multa por 400 euros y decidimos cerrar por el invierno.

¿Cuál es el gran plan que tienes ahora?

Tenemos una nueva propuesta para un proyecto GRANDE, la compartí en el Festival de Maranya y ahora es el momento de dar los primeros pasos …

Queremos cambiar la educación, cambiar la agricultura y regenerar el ecosistema en la Vall Rovira. (¿No es la visión de todxs? Que el mundo no está yendo genial en este momento)

Estamos buscando un pequeño equipo de personas para crear un proyecto sustancial a largo plazo. Esto incluye financiación, diseño de permacultura, educación, bioconstrucción, agricultura, gestión, organización y personas trabajadoras motivadas.

Si crees que esto suena increíble, ¡lo es! LEER MÁS AQUÍ

¿Qué actividades está haciendo este año 2019?

Este año realizamos un intercambio de jóvenes con participantes que se quedaron en el pueblo local, pero fue muy difícil logísticamente y no tenemos prisa por repetirlo. También tenemos 4 voluntarios a largo plazo que viven en el pueblo y van en bicicleta a Boodaville todas las mañanas. Parte de su trabajo es compartir y educar sobre la permacultura a través de las redes sociales, ¡ya que nadie viene a visitarnos!

Mejoramos el festival y nos mudamos a una nueva y brillante ubicación, ahora es el Maranya Festival, y tuvo lugar en mayo de 2019.

Al final, ha sido muy positivo colaborar con el pueblo local de Caseres. Estamos compartiendo nuestros diseños de permacultura con gente local y trabajando juntos con el alcalde y el ayuntamiento allí. La idea de “comunidad” ha pasado de ser una “ecoaldea” de unas pocas personas en el valle, a ser una colaboración con una red más amplia de personas. Al final, si hay casas vacías en el pueblo, y son solo 15 minutos en bicicleta hasta el sitio … ¿realmente necesitamos construir casas en el valle? ¿Es todo el proyecto más rico por ser más abierto y colaborativo e impactar a la gente local?

¿Cuál es el futuro del sitio de Boodaville?

La visión a largo plazo de lo que sucederá en Boodaville ha cambiado, y ahora estamos mirando hacia el futuro como un sitio de demostración educativa que ofrece 2 o 3 cursos al año, y se somete al resto del actividades como visitas de un día solamente. El proceso para hacer esto legalmente está en marcha, pero tomará meses o más. Estamos desarrollando un “Informe de Interés Social” para demostrar al consejo local por qué nuestras actividades deberían continuar, y luego trabajaremos con Rafa, un hombre que sabe sobre permisos de planificación, y el alcalde local, para acordar qué medidas deben ser tomado por salud y seguridad para hacer esto. El próximo año, 2020, estamos planeando un año tranquilo en el sitio, sin voluntarios y sin actividades mientras pasamos por este proceso.

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¡¡Boodaville Random Prize Raffle!!

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Post date February 4, 2019
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Boodaville is fundraising this month with a prize raffle

Posted on Feb 4, 2019

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…..Fundraising – Campaign deadline 17 March….

We are fundraising this month with a prize raffle – offering you the chance to win a selection of random and wonderfully creative prizes.

As you know we are a registered not-for-profit environmental association, and this fundraiser is to cover the costs of the next step in the development of our permaculture demonstration site and education centre. Our long term goal is the development of a working example of an eco-community that live regeneratively – leaving the world better than they find it.

We will be drawing the raffle in Poble Sec, Barcelona on the 17th March. You are all welcome to join us at this celebration of the project where you can learn more about our future!

Raffle tickets are only 1 euro each, so maximise your chances and grab a few!! We have members of the Boodaville team selling tickets all over the place, or contact Anna Boodaville via facebook. We will happily accept online payments direct to the Association if you want to support us that way!

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A little story about this year..

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Post date November 14, 2017
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visit of Can Masdeu and life in Boodaville

Posted on Nov 14, 2017

One Sunday in September I went up towards the eco-community at Can Masdeu on a mission. It was before the open days had started for this season, and even after my best attempts at persuasion, Kira and Bernat weren’t that keen to come with me, so they got off the metro early and went to the Labyrinth park. I carried on, went quickly and sweatily up the track to Can Masdeu to collect cuttings and seeds from the Italian Buckthorn trees up there in the food forest. I didn’t see anyone, did the job, then went to find the family in the park. I can’t say it was a bad day.

At home the next day I put some lentils on wet kitchen paper in a tupperware and left them to germinate.

A few days later I arrived at Boodaville with happy tree cuttings in water, sprouting lentils, and a link to the youtube video that shows you exactly how to mix them together so those lentil sprouting enzymes can help the cuttings grow into new trees.

Sadly the volunteers on site weren’t so happy. There had been arguments, expressed and unexpressed differences of opinion, and everyone seemed tired. I couldn’t offer them more than material they needed to work, youtube videos, a list of how to run the site, and to be on the end of the phone. That was just a few days before all the volunteers left, leaving site empty for the last two weeks of the season. Those cuttings are now dead in their pot and the story of this year is that although many amazing jobs did get done, there is so much left on the list…

BUT

Even with care and lentil enzymes would those cuttings have survived anyway? Who knows! And that is the pattern of a project like this, up and down, but with passion and soul behind it to keep trying, keep learning and know that permaculture is the right path.

Today I’m going back to Boodaville, with family, Maja and other friends, and we will stay in a warm and welcoming house rented from a local in Calaceite. We will harvest the olives, keep going with the unfinished planting jobs, enjoy the richness and complexity of nature and of this ongoing, incredible, soul-filling, rollercoaster of a project.

I’m not sure of the exact date, but it is almost a year to the day that I saw OJ for the last time. I miss him.

I am filled with gratitude to all the people who have stepped in when things got tough this year, especially in recent months Kate, Rob, Kerry, Bernat, Maja and Oriol. And we are looking for people who have passion and love Boodaville to join us for more adventures next year and into the future!

18th December 2018

I wrote an email to Women’s Permaculture Guild and this came out :

Hi Heather,

Thanks for all your amazing work on this. You are doing an excellent job of creating engagement.

I honestly have a little problem with the “women only” aspect. While i recognise completely that this is a “reformative” measure based on the current imbalance, I look forward to the time in the future where we can create a “revolutionary” platform representing the equal situation we are ultimately aiming for.

What do I want from your free online course?

I would like to offer the resources from the course to volunteers who come through Boodaville so they have access to your amazing network and resources

I would like to learn a good base in permaculture myself, and I don’t have much time for reading books. I did my PDC in my second language when my daughter Kira was 3 months old so I’d like some more info and to fill in the gaps.

I also want to produce a book, or several books, about what has happened at Boodaville over the years, one with photos of the project, and the designs, one with a kind of connections map about how far and wide Boodaville has had an impact, and thirdly a written book which describes in a clearer way the objectives, particularly with regards to non-formal education and the pedagogical theory behind the methods we use, (especially in the context of our current global situation with climate change, echo chambers and young rich people suffering incredibly high rates of mental illness) and the holistic design of the whole project (which includes a LOT of people care, and a big chunk of Fair Share). I’m inspired by the recently published “Children in Permaculture” book I’m reading written by Lusi, Didi and a third person i’ve not met, and who’s name escapes me. (sorry!)

A deeper reflection on Boodaville leaves me wondering how to fit “design” into the story of Boodaville, because although it is built entirely on the the three ethics, with decisions always taken on this basis, at the beginning certainly, we didn’t have a long-term design. Maybe the future of the project is to see how much better we can do after the last few years working beyond the ethics with “Permaculture DESIGN”.

I’m not sure that’s the answer you were looking for,

I wish I had more time to write more and read more!!

Abrazo

Anna

25th October 2019

La idea de “comunidad” ha pasado de ser una “ecoaldea” de unas pocas personas en el valle, a ser una colaboración con una red más amplia de personas. Al final, si hay casas vacías en el pueblo, y son solo 15 minutos en bicicleta hasta el sitio … ¿realmente necesitamos construir casas en el valle? ¿Es todo el proyecto más rico por ser más abierto y colaborativo e impactar a la gente local?

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Boodaville Fete of Fun – Party in Barcelona

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Post date February 27, 2017
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we organised an event to raise money !

Posted on Feb 27, 2017

So many people gave their time to help organise and run this event – huge thanks to Marina, Sara, Guim, Laura, Mike, Duncan, Edgar, Alice, Prithika, Orla, Aoife, Polly, Frank, Alessandro, Helen, Gilard, Roger, Aroa, Ricki and to everyone who came along and got involved to make it so much fun and to run so smoothly. Thank you to each and every one of you who contributed at the event.. we feel blessed to have so many supporters to make awesome things happen here in Barcelona and from April at the Boodaville site during 2017. A special mention to Barbara who let us use her local for the party and a very special mention to my family – Bernat who is always working really hard to support the project as well as providing photos and videos, and Kira who is just happy and joins in with us all. (as we saw from her dancing on the table….)

What does Anna think about it all?

I shouldn’t spend too much time writing a long article about this.. we still have a crowdfunding campaign and a Youth in Permaculture project to work on! But I can’t stop myself from sharing a few reflections, and thinking about the impact of the event.

Overall that was a pretty intense way to raise 500 euros, a lot of work preparing and organising as best I could (not perfectly by any means) but what really strikes me about the event is that it was the permaculture way to raise money! The event was so much more than euros – we are building and strengthening a beautiful Boodaville community, we had loads of fun, people are making real and strong connections by getting together at events like this.

I hope you noticed the lack of disposable cups at the fete! The negative ecological impact of doing this was absolutely minimal – we didn’t break a single glass and I spent forty minutes on Sunday washing them up, which was a pleasure because of the plastic I knew was being saved. I also believe that designing tasks like washing up into your day makes life more balanced (tip – design to have time to do it as well!).

We generated about 2 plastic bags full of cans and about 12 glass bottles, which went for recycling obviously, and maybe some people had napkins with their focaccia! Very few people travelled by car to arrive. We printed 20 sheets of paper and burst a few balloons. All the prizes were donated, the dough the kids played with was organic material only, and all the left over stuff has been donated to charity or recycled. There were a few bags of ice. All the bread was organic from the local bakery and the apple juice organic too! (although bought from Lidl..)

On a positive note many of us peed in the park – that helps the plants, honest!! People came to a park and enjoyed the view and a sort of natural setting for the afternoon.

The thing that has really stuck with me from the event is a reflection about stuff, consumption and economics. To see all the perfectly good stuff that people don’t want, yet don’t know what to do with, highlights a huge fault in the economic system. Forget money, the real subject of economics is to share the resources we have so that people can cover their needs and wants. It is insane that there is not a more obvious standard way to shift all this stuff around in a way that doesn’t waste it. There are people who want kids shoes, and a funky dress, or a costume for a day, or toys.. but how are you supposed to get all this stuff to them?? You want to create employment? there’s a chance right there! Even in our ridiculous age of consuming cheap low quality crap, there is an insane amount of perfectly good stuff which is being wasted. Well luckily Oxfam accepted the clothes, and they are a genuinely good organisation, and Polly accepted the costume stuff for her awesome cabaret event next week.

Go enjoy yourselves people.. if it’s not fun it’s not sustainable!

Love

Anna

2 weeks ago…

Mar 14, 2017

It’s exactly two weeks since OJ passed away. Just two weeks since he was partying and dancing. I can think back to the horror of the phone call when I found out. Yesterday I walked past the exact spot I was standing when I heard the words “he’s dead”. I can think of the conversation I had with Maja about how it felt the moment when they switched off the machines in the hospital while she was holding his hand. His ashes will be taken back to his home city of Brno and scattered next to the grave of his father. Who died at 30 years old. I can think about his mother, but I cannot imagine what she is going through. With my own daughter, just three years, I already share so much love and so many memories, multiply that by nine then imagine having it ripped away from you. I only knew OJ (Ondra) for 20 months.

But I am also starting to look forward. I’ve been through shock, disbelief, asking why, and now I am deeply sad that when I look to the future I won’t be sharing it with him at Boodaville. I really loved him. I’m thinking about how much I looked forward to seeing him pick me up from the station, and how connected I felt to him. I would like to create a suitable to memorial to him.

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Earthworks and paths

applying for a long term permaculture design

In September 2016 17 we worked with Oriol Fernandez with a very small group to apply more of the long term permaculture design. The work was landscaping and creating gardens in front of the kitchen and dome, and earthworks – planning a swale to bring water off the road.

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EU funded Youth Exchange – Build Your Future – Construction of geodesic dome

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Post date August 28, 2016
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the proposal "Build Your Future" youth exchange as been approved !

August 2016

The forces of Spanish bureaucracy came together meaning that the delay in approving our status as an Association equalled the delay at INJUVE in reading and approving the “Build Your Future” youth exchange proposal. The proposal was submitted the 24th April, the registration papers for the association should have arrived by the 10th May. On the 17th June I got the paperwork for the association and the very same day an angry email from INJUVE saying I must have those papers uploaded within 24 hours to qualify for funding. The dome was meant to be!

I am extremely happy to have managed to constitute the association and get €13,350 funding in 2016, and obviously I couldn’t have done this without the support of an amazing team of people, especially Alessandro and Carlos who are the other two members of the association.

The course involved 25 participants from Spain, Portugal, Italy and Bulgaria plus our expert dome builder and designer Jordi Cavaller. We did sessions on design, building, permaculture and ecology while working each day on the construction of this huge structure which will be a dining area and workshop space in 2017.

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Investment for Boodaville

Apr 6, 2016

An investor just put 2500 pounds into Boodaville Bonds! It’s great that people who have money want to put it to good use instead of in investment funds.. (the “ethical” ones still invest in environmentally damaging projects like large-scale hydro, not to mention fossil fuels, banks, nestle “we want to privatise water”)

I’ve already spent it a few times over in my head, but realistically will put it towards

the larger infrastructure projects, the roof structure / water tank is budgeted at 5000 euros, but I can try to cut that and get it done. This is a loan, so will go towards capital investments rather than activities.

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Boodaville Association

Boodaville is officially an association !

Mar 27, 2016

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In celebration of the fact that I’ve finally learned how to spell the word association, we have officially formed one!

The Boodaville Association objectives are;

permaculture education via courses and the development of demonstration sites; sharing and promoting ways of living which are sustainable, resilient and respectful of the environment; and promoting fair and supportive socio-economic development. There are currently three members of Boodaville: myself, Carlos and Alessandro. We have our registration number (CIF) and are ready to start raising funds through donations, merchandising and government grants – just as soon as we organise that

Spanish La Asociación de Boodaville tiene como objetivos:

proyectar un cambio de paradigma hacia una sociedad resiliente, solidaria y respetuosa con el medio ambiente, organizar actividades de sensibilización y educación sobre temáticas de Permacultura y medio-ambiente y crear espacios demostrativos, promover un desarrollo socioeconómico más sostenible, solidario y justo. De momento somos 3 miembros de Boodaville: Carlos, Alessandro y yo. Tenemos nuestro CIF y estamos preparados para conseguir donaciones, vender merchandising, y buscar subvenciones – en cuanto encontramos tiempo para organizarlo.

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Boodaville Fete of Fun

crowdfunding campaign for Boodaville

we are crowdfunding!!

Posted on Feb 9, 2017

See the campaign and the amazing video Bernat made here

Boodaville Fete of Fun

Posted on Feb 27, 2017

So how much did we raise?

This event, and the crowdfunding campaign, is so that Boodaville will be able to open again in April and continue working towards a better future for people and planet through permaculture education and the development of a working example of an eco-community that live regeneratively – leaving the world better than they find it.

The key to this is design, ecology, understanding how a whole system works so it can be nourished. Permaculture ideas are radical – focusing on the sharing economy, ideas of abundance, and working with nature to produce high yields in terms of meeting needs, caring for the environment and having a positive social impact.

Come and visit us, or read up on Permaculture to see more about how permaculture design can shape your life – and for now we really appreciate any support reaching our target!!

We raised 521 euros from the event and that brings us to 52% of the cowdfunding target!!

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Boodaville Bonds vs banks making profit out of money they’ve created

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“Boodaville Bonds” - an opportunity to invest in a great project and utilise a method of finance which is built on community, trust, and genuine social responsibility from both borrower and lender.

Posted on Nov 17, 2015

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This post is to say a huge thank you to one of my Boodaville Bonds investors who has reinvested the first repayment of €250. After consideration of what this could be used for the best option is to take the cash to the bank and pay down part of the loan I took out. (I didn’t get enough investors to cover the full amount needed!) By paying down the loan I am paying less interest to a financial system I don’t want to support and spending (slightly) more of it on moving forward with Boodaville. Here’s some more about why I believe in alternative finance:

As some of you may know I recently completed the online masters level MOOC “Money and Society” with IFLAS The Institute for Leadership and Sustainability. Jem Bendall, one of the professors on the course, criticises our money system and talks about alternatives in this TED video. Matt Slater, the other professor on the course is a nomad who helps and consults on setting up alternative currencies (as well as geeky stuff like coding software for running alternative currencies)

I was already committed to looking for alternatives to the system before the course because permaculture includes applying the basic ethics of caring for people and planet to different domains of our lives and Finances and economy is one of these domains. After completing the Money and Society course I am even more deeply committed to avoiding loans and speculative investments. I highly recommend taking the course! Some of the suggested ideas are alternative currencies, ethical investments, local markets and sharing when we have surplus. This is what I wrote when I launched the Boodaville Bonds in 2014 :

The Boodaville Project is a socially, environmentally and economically responsible project that is educating people about sustainable living and leading by example. As problems with the current economic system are increasingly obvious I am hoping to reach the level of financing I need via an alternative to the traditional banking system, here are two statistics I would like to highlight :

– More than 97% of all money in the global economy is created by banks when they make loans, and most of this goes into speculation and not into the real economy. This benefits the rich and increases inequality. (positivemoney.org and Bernard Lietaer “The Future of Money”)

– The overall effect of interest payments is that 10% of the population get richer, while 80% get poorer. (Margrit Kennedy. “Money without interest and inflation” p.35)

“Boodaville Bonds” are an opportunity to invest in a great project and utilise a method of finance which is built on community, trust, and genuine social responsibility from both borrower and lender. The returns I offer are stated in the payment plan I created.

FAQs

What is The Boodaville Project?

Have a look here

Why should I trust you?

I have been dedicated to this project for 6 years, we are now an official Association and I’m at a point where I really need some finance to get to the next stage and be able to comfortably host guests, teachers and volunteers. The loan repayments are secured by the fact that I will sell 75% of the project, including land and buildings, when we become a Cooperative in 2018. You can see the development of the project during the last 6 years on the blog and can see my long-term dedication to the project. I am confident that the financial plan to sell the 75% share stated will be successful. If, however, there is a problem with this I can personally assure you that there will be enough money to cover the loan payments due in 2018.

Why don’t you borrow from an ethical bank?

I am looking to pay back the loans at a fixed date in the future. I am trying this approach first. If i need to, I will look into ethical banking options.

Why not use the Coopfunding initiative which is exactly what you need?

As an association we will look into this idea, but still have the problem of wanting to pay all the money back on the sale of the project later.

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