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ESC volunteering 2024

Permaculture volunteering opportunities in 2024 with Boodaville - the call is open for European Solidarity Corps volunteers!

BOODAVILLE CASERES

(Scroll down to read about Boodaville Barcelona)

WHO?

This is a placement for participants with a maximum age of 30 as it is funded by the European Solidarity Corps. We are looking for people who are highly motivated to learn and apply Permaculture, who are responsible and have an interest in nature and outdoor activities and education projects with young children. Applicants should have good communication skills and be ready to live in a small community. They should be prepared for quiet village life, and be ready to explore the area by bicycle.

We also invite participants with fewer opportunities.

WHERE?

For 24 hours a week volunteers will be at Boodaville Kindergarten, a developing family permaculture centre in the Matarranya region of Spain. Visitors learn about this permaculture education project applying, effective & sustainable design techniques in a place with challenging climate conditions.

Boodaville started in 2008 with the purchase of 1.5 hectares of olive terraces and pine forests in a stunning, tranquil location. Over the years, many people in an ever-growing international community have become involved and we’ve learned about, and applied, permaculture design during the development of the original site and the site of the new family project.

The long term goal is to create a working example of permaculture principles in action and create an eco-education centre with plenty of space for workshops and courses.

Volunteers will live in a fully-equipped caravan at the family project during the week, and have a room in rented accommodation in the small village of Caseres available for weekends and for 6 hours of online work related to the ESC program (youthpass diaries, writing up reports, organising and sharing dissemintion material).

Caseres is a rural village about 3 km from the demonstration site of Boodaville, and 6km from the family permaculture site. It is a small village of about 300 people located next to the Algars River where you can bathe.

See more about Caseres here : http://www.caseres.altanet.org/

WHAT?

The volunteer will have the role of assisting the Boodaville Kindergarten during the school time (from 9.00 to 15.00), and occasionally he/she will have the option to work in the permaculture project belonging to the school families, or the Boodaville Finca, nr Caseres – In which the main activities are Regenerative Agriculture and taking care of 4Ha of olives, almond trees and a vegetable garden. The permaculture and educational practice, meetings and other activities take place during 30 hours per week.

There are three main activities within the volunteer project:

1) Training in natural environment education, creating and developing activities focused on nature pedagogy and outdoor education.

2) Learn practical permaculture skills, communication, group cohesion, sharing ideas, facilitation and developing self-confidence.

3) Reflection work, write blog posts, post photos.

WHY?

This European Solidarity Corps program is an opportunity to make something for you and for the world. All basic living expenses are covered as well as the expenses to travel to Caseres, and you receive monthly pocket money.

You will be living and learning ethical design, as well as experiencing life in a rural Spanish village. There are all sorts of possible day to day activities, please read the infopack for more information and if you are eligible you can start the application process by filling in this form.

APPLY HERE!

WHEN?

From the 10/01/2024 to the 10/07/2024

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BOODAVILLE BARCELONA

WHO?

This is a placement for participants with a maximum age of 30 as it is funded by the European Solidarity Corps. We are looking for people who want to support our management of European Projects, who have a passion for social media, and are highly motivated to learn and apply Urban Permaculture. The ideal candidate is responsible and has an interest in ecosocial transition. Applicants should have good communication skills in Spanish as there will be networking and social media tasks. They should be prepared to come to the Poble Sec neighbourhood to work at least three days a week.

WHERE?

Volunteers will live in, or close to, Barcelona and will work in the Poble Sec neighbourhood to create regenerative projects. They will work in a variety of locations including co-working spaces, the offices of collaborating organisations, urban gardens and outdoor public spaces.

WHAT?

Volunteers will work on three two main tasks 1) Support with online work – mainly Instagram/Website/Project Management 2) Working in the neighbourhood implementing ecosocial design in the Poble Sec neighbourhood.

The volunteers will help Boodaville Association grow by engaging young people and sharing opportunities, both online, and in person in the neighbourhood.

Volunteers can choose independent work, or take part collaborating with exisiting groups. There are also opportunities to be involved with permaculure networks across the city and at a regional, national and international level.

Volunteers will work closely with Anna Louise Gurney the coordinator and Emma Riboli the mentor for this project.

WHY?

This European Solidarity Corps project is an opportunity to engage in promoting ecosocial design with long-term effects in a city neighbourhood. All basic living expenses are covered as well as the expenses to travel to Barcelona, and you receive monthly pocket money.

You will be living and learning ethical design, as well as experiencing life in an urban neighbourhood. There are all sorts of possible day to day activities, please read the infopack for more information and if you are eligible you can start the application process by filling in the google form.

WHEN?

From the 10/07/2024 to the 10/06/2024

Interviews for shortlisted applicants will be held via zoom with Anna Louise, project coordinator

1) Training in natural environment education, creating and developing activities
focused on nature pedagogy and outdoor education.

Lou

Lou - I started on the Boodaville path when I bought the land in Matarranya in 2008 and have dedicated an incredible amount of time, and not very many euros, to building up the project over the years.

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Data: Food forest study and soil analysis

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Post date September 14, 2023
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Data: Food forest study and soil analysis

Results of our Food Forest Productivity Study and the anaylsis of the microbiology of the soil by Sam Miller

Sara passed me the results from measuring circumference and height of our Food Forest trees.

Overall 49 of the 68 trees included in the study are still alive. But we have to recognise that 20 of these haven’t got through their first year yet.

When trees reach full size it will be important to switch to measuring productivity of fruit, rather than height. Only one tree we planted is productive, and we didn’t collect data on the original 3 olive trees and 4 almond trees – we probably should!

A conclusion is that we should focus on enriching the guilds that are still alive rather than adding new ones, and we can see how things improve when the wind break grows. At the moment.. it’s alive but not growing very much.

SOIL ANALYSIS

Our wonderful friend and recently qualified soil microbiolgy expert Sam Miller took a sample from the Food Forest and a sample from the Thyme Terrace project. (Search either of those terms on the blog page to find out more)

For the analysis 25 fields of view are considered from a one drop dilution under a microscope slide. At 400X there are over 2000 possible fields of view available to look at, so it is inevitable that it is not 100% accurate without taking hours and hours of work per sample.

For the Nematode analysis, the whole slide is scanned at 100X magnification so I took the opportunity to document some of the organisms that I saw during this part of the analysis. The magnification of the photos should be indicated in the title of each one. Click on the images to get the full sized view and the title.

In summary: Both places have bacteria and nematodes, but the food forest has no fungi and the thyme terrace has some.

This is what I expected as the Food Forest is an attempt to recuperate highly ploughed dead soil, but the Thyme Terrace is a place that has been left alone for over thirty years and has undergone natural succession and regeneration, and has many more bushes and trees.

You can see the spreadsheets for these studies if you want to go deep here and you’ll find some photos and the latest map in there too!

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Update from Rovira Regenerativa (2)…

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Post date June 9, 2023
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Update from Rovira Regenerativa (2)…

Updates from Rovira Regenerativa, our valley scale regenerative agroforestry / community ecosocial transition / education project! Energy and guidance from Permaculture Design.

New team member, James, visited for a week, staying at the house in Caseres. He met Alex and Sara, who gave him a tour of Boodaville and the surrounding valley. Although James was working online in the mornings (giving private English lessons), he helped out with a few gardening tasks in the afternoons. These included:

– Digging a trench next to the tree saplings alongside the (dried up) river and adding a mix of biochar* and compost tea. ** Given the months long drought, the ground was absolutely parched, but as luck would have it, it rained virtually every day after their labours. This should help incorporate the organic matter into the soil and aid its transportation through to the trees’ roots.

– Cutting back some of the dried up wild fennel stalks, for future use as mulch.

– Collected hay and manure from the donkey and horse living in the valley. Alex pointed out that we’ll have to check that neither animal has been treated with particular medication, e.g. antibiotics, which means their faeces could have a deleterious effect on the soil.

Alex and Sara continued the Regenerative Agriculture course at Gandesa. Both feel that the course remains fun and informative, if a little overwhelming at times. Sara was interested to learn that land which has been farmed conventionally for many years requires a transition period before it can be farmed in a fully regenerative way, e.g. soils which have been consistently tilled should not be suddenly subject to a no-dig method. Instead, they should be gradually tilled less often and to a lesser depth over a period of about five years. In this way, the incorporation of organic matter and deep rooted green manures can better improve the soil’s structure, drainage and biodiversity.

Finally, Sara removed one of the mould plates from the two quadrants in the edible forest. The rice contained within the mould had turned a few different colours, predominantly grey, but some grains were orange and green. A wider range of multiple colours would have indicated a more fertile and biodiverse soil, so there’s clearly work to do. Meanwhile, the other plate had mysteriously disappeared! Initially bamboozled as to what could have happened to it, Alex suggested that a search of the site might be in order. Sure enough, the plate turned up about fifty metres away, perched on a wall next to the path running down the valley. The mosquito net in which the mould had been wrapped was also nearby, ripped to shreds, and the plate contained a little remaining rice, but the mould was gone – presumably snaffled up by a local fox or wild boar. Something to bear in mind when releasing the chickens from their pen, or leaving the door open to the house!

* Compost tea is a liquid produced by extracting beneficial microorganisms —bacteria, fungi, protozoa, nematodes, and micro arthropods—from compost using a brewing process. A true compost tea contains all of the organisms that were present in the compost before brewing. The brewed water extract should also have soluble nutrients from the compost. Compost tea is a good overall plant health booster (a little like vitamins for people), and healthy plants are better able to resist pests and diseases.

** Biochar is biomass (wood, leaves, straw, or other biosolids) heated at high temperatures without oxygen. This process, known as pyrolysis, concentrates carbon in a form that is very resistant to biological decomposition. When applied to soil and other products, a large fraction of its carbon content is sequestered for 100+ years.

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Workshop : How to make your own biochar!

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Post date March 15, 2023
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Workshop : How to make your own biochar!

On the 12th March from 11 - 16h in El Pinell de Brai we ran this workshop making Biochar. See fotos and info here!

What is Biochar?

Did you know that this charcoal-like substance improves soil structure, increases water retention and aggregation, reduces acidity and improves porosity?

Biochar is a charcoal-like substance that’s made by burning organic material from agricultural and forestry wastes (also called biomass) in a controlled process called pyrolysis.

What are its benefits?
Enhancing soil structure, increasing water retention and aggregation, improving microbial properties, decreasing acidity, improving porosity, regulating nitrogen leaching, improving electrical conductivity and more.

Here’s a video!

On Sunday the 12th March

11:00 Meet at Jordi’s Farm near El Pinell de Brai, Terra Alta, Tarragona

11:30 – 15:30

– Manifesto “Soil4Life” the importance of our soils (Anna Louise Gurney)

– Theory session on soil : maintenance and regeneration (Nick Park)

– Practical session – light the fire, make biochar step by step together.

We will eat a picnic lunch during the day. We will be in a rural site without any installations, so you need to bring your picnic, drinking water and everything you need for the day. We recommend folding chairs if you have them!

You can’t cook on the biochar fire!! haha (but we can keep warm)

15:30 Close the day and tidy up.

If you want to join for the weekend you can arrive in Caseres on Saturday 11 March, or Friday 10th March, and stay in the flat we have in Caseres village and travel to the workshop in a carshare with Alex from Boodaville.

Videos from the day here!

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Syntropic experiment 1, and wishing you a Happy 2023 (On Fridays I write)

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Post date January 13, 2023
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Syntropic experiment 1, and wishing you a Happy 2023 (On Fridays I write)

Happy 2023! Lou is back with details of our syntropic agriculture experiment and updates on other activities over holidays.

I’m back! and catching up after the long Spanish holiday. With King’s Day on the 6th January, the first day back in the office (read : kids back at school) was 9th January! Alex has moved in to Boodaville Caseres, the cats have mostly moved out, and the place is looking tidier than ever after some intense days clearing out the yearly build up of random stuff.

The children are healthy, energies are restored and I’m even feeling in many ways “back to normal” and my motivation is similar to the good old days. On Monday we are meeting to put projects and objectives into a plan for the year. Any input / ideas are welcome over the weekend.

pooless

Before I say any more about the syntropic agriculture experiment, first I have to make the kind of comment i don’t usually make.

“Never mind what I’m doing with that stick, look at my hair! Doesn’t it look amazing!!”

That was my first thought when I saw the above photo and now I can share with the world that I haven’t washed my hair with shampoo since June 2021. Inspired to action by Paul Wheaton and Shaun Klassen-Koop’s book “Building a better world in your backyard” and the fact I was pregnant and not going to be going out very much, I stopped washing. It took 15 months, but now I never need shampoo again. I use a comb to clean my hair, a nailbrush to clean the comb, and it really does look and feel great. Hooray for reducing the number of chemicals in my house, reducing costs, going the natural way. Not to mention savings by avoiding packaging, transport and prodcution embedded energy, water, fossil fuels and quite probably buying from a huge multi-national company participating in a degenerative economic and financial system. But mainly – it’s easy and it works!

syntropic seeding experiment 1

“Plants grow in community, just like the human beings in villages, and the ground seeks to protect itself from the sun, just like a person at noon wants the shadow of a tree.” – Emilio

We seeded a forest! The theory is that nature decides, based on incredible wisdom and ecosystem knowledge, when the seeds will germinate.

The different species are ready to fill roles in the natural succesion, soil restoration and ecosystem of plants growing together. We are creating conditions for life and more life. The more science based element of the experiment is to see what two adjacent fields will look like in ten years – one with all species planted from seed (although we did put some tree cuttings in there) and the other with the “normal” method of planting trees from a nursery.

The theory is that growing from seed, in company, gives the bushes and trees such an advantage that they will “overtake” the bigger trees next door within ten years. I love learning about theories that are so deeply based in designing as nature with a holistic approach to ecosystems of soil, plants and all living beings. Not only is it beautiful, and regenerative, but we hope to demonstrate how effective these ideas are in practice.

We have a googledoc with exact details of what we introduced. See the titles of the photos and the map below that show what we did.

This was a joint project with seeds and cuttings donated from Sam Miller, Jessica, and Anna Louise at Boodaville. As always we are infinitely grateful to Sam for his brilliantness and generostiy. We did most of the work on 29th December 2022, and will continue to add seeds to the area as they are in season, and whenever we can. On the 4th January we added more seed balls with various species of edible plants thanks to Jack and Jacqueline.

ants

We’ll keep you updated on whether ants take the seeds or not! so far not.. but you don’t see so many of them around on these dark days of winter.

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Boodaville Caseres Site Manager and Volunteer Mentor 2023

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Post date November 18, 2022
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Boodaville Caseres Site Manager and Volunteer Mentor 2023

Apply for Boodaville Caseres Site Manager opportunity 2023

UPDATE

Site Manager – we have the site manager role covered until August 2023 with Alex currently in the role, and Sara ready to take over if he moves on before then. We are looking for applications for the role of Site Manager and Volunteer Mentor starting in September 2023. We will make a new appointment based on the best person for the role between all the applicants. If you are interested in coming to live and work and manage Boodaville Caseres please get in touch to organise visits and training before August to see if you role is for you!

We are seeking a Site Manager and Volunteer Mentor to live onsite at Boodaville Caseres for the 2 year period of Jan 2023- Dec 2024. This is a volunteer position without a salary, all expenses will be covered. The Site Manager will be able to claim expenses for living, running the Boodaville site and general expenses including “pocket money”.

The day to day tasks include, maintaining the food forest and small scale regenerative agriculture project, maintaining buildings and spaces, running a nursery and managing the volunteers weekly timetable. This includes meeting with volunteers and assigning tasks for the volunteers to work 4-5hours from Monday to Friday. Please see the links (below) to the Infopack for the project to know the volunteers roles and expectations as well as the website and Instagram.

Ideally the person who will take this role will visit Boodaville for several days to a week in 2022 to get to know the space and project and meet with Anna Louise, the project coordinator, online or in person..

Links:

Boodaville Volunteer Infopack to know volunteer roles and expectations

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Essential Skills: Driving license, over 25 years old, Spanish and English speaking to conversational level, PDC

Highly desirable: Bilingual Spanish/English, passionate about sharing knowledge and skills, excellent communication skills (via whatsapp), able to efficiently manage the weekly timetable for the volunteers, enjoy nature immersion, interest in community and cultural activities of the Matarranya region, work within a budget and keep all receipts in order for expenses claims, proactive and takes initiative to make events and exciting things happen, self-care skills and practices, effective leadership skills and self-motivation and encouraging the volunteer team, practical experience in agriculture, plant nurseries, bio-construction and water management, recognition of the importance of reflection and evaluation, over 30 years old, peace-making skills, flexibility and keenness to learn from the experience through rough and smooth, accountability for job list, able to give and receive feedback in a constructive manner, a comfortable and flowing relationship with Anna Louise, project coordinator.

APPLY HERE

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Boodaville Barcelona Volunteers 2023

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Post date November 15, 2022
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Boodaville Barcelona Volunteers 2023

Urban Permaculture opportunities in 2023 with Boodaville Barcelona

WHEN?

A 12 month contract starting in January 2022.

(Application deadline 10th December 2021 – these positions have been filled)

WHO?

This is a placement for participants with a maximum age of 30 as it is funded by the European Solidarity Corps. We are looking for people who are highly motivated to learn and apply Urban Permaculture, who are responsible and have an interest in ecosocial transition. Applicants should have good communication skills in Spanish as there will be networking and social media tasks. They should be prepared to come to the Poble Sec neighbourhood to work at least three days a week.

WHERE?

WHAT?

January will be a month of observation, planning and training, after which volunteers can implement projects they choose ranging from: organising events and workshops promoting ecosocial transition, implementing permaculture design in the Poble Sec neighbourhood, communication tasks for Boodaville, collaborating with existing organisations on publicly funded projects, creating the project “Permaculture Poble Sec”, helping the Boodaville Association grow by engaging young people and sharing opportunities.

There are many opportunities for independent work, as well as roles collaborating with exisiting groups. There are also opportunities to be involved with permaculure networks across the city and at a regional, national and international level.

Volunteers will work closely with Anna Louise Gurney the coordinator and mentor for this project

WHY?

Antonia

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Our favourite video from 2021

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Post date October 25, 2022
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Our favourite video from 2021

Our favourite video from 2021 is from the course on regenerative cultures in a beautiful location. Please watch the video!

It’s one year since we published this wonderful video! For information about our activities in 2023, sign up for the newsletter below.

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Food forest and thyme terrace (On Friday’s I write)

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Post date July 15, 2022
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Spot the plants in this picture : quince, cherry, almond, olive, apple, sugar cane,

Food forest and thyme terrace (On Friday’s I write)

Lou has been at the Boodaville Caseres project all week and this week gives updates from Boodaville's food forest and thyme terrace in July 2022

This week I am able to write because Vianna our wonderful Boodaville Barcelona volunteer has already uploaded the photos I sent her a few days ago. In my 15 minute window between taking some cuttings and planting some seeds at the Boodaville finca, and going to pick up Kira and Joanna from their respective child care I will add captions to the photos to explain what is working well and not so well with our design.

We were lucky – or not so lucky – to have a huge 48mm storm 8 days ago, so the ground is still humid to a decent level (this is why we are planting cover crop seeds in july !! – to start gettting some life into the new medicinal herb garden the volunteers have created)

I say not so lucky because the day before the storm a farmer here in town commented to our volunteer Fran “If it didn’t rain again all summer I’d be happy”, and because along with the storm was intense hail which has destroyed all of Marc Boldo’s vineyards (and many other people’s farms as well), that’s 15000 euros of income gone, plus the fact that he’s put an incredible amount of labour already into those fields.

These extreme storms, heatwaves are exactly what models predicted climate breakdown would look like. We are living it, and also living under a crazy system where the media are spreading propaganda and taking us towards catastrophe. This week we’ve seen media continuing to support the Tory party – when internationally Britain is basically seen as a failed state right now; we’ve seen the reality behind the destruction of the Podemos party by the media in Spain uncovered (See Pablo Iglesias on twitter – you won’t find it in MSM!) and we’ve seen media ignoring hugely important news about climate (again!)

Anyway, here’s the food forest update, hooray for solutions to desertification and regenerating soil and LIFE!

Sadly the Robinia has died, we are investigating but there may have been 1) a map error and it didn’t appear combined with 2) a lack of a “sponsor” ie noone on site who deeply loved this tree!!!

Spot the plants in this picture : quince, cherry, almond, olive, apple, sugar cane,

Thyme terrace - these two small cuts across the road make a huge difference to the amount of water that gets to the terraces. Small and slow and effective design solutions.

Thyme Terrace Acacia 1

Thyme Terrace Acacia 2

Thyme Terrace Acacia 3

Thyme Terrace Acacia 4

Thyme Terrace Arbol de Amor / Judas Tree - this looked like a dead stick last year!!

Thyme Terrace - swale and happy fruit trees

Thyme Terrace swale is still damp and muddy, photo taken 5 days of 36º daytime temperatures after the storm.

Thyme Terrace Second section of swale, more happy fruit trees

Food Forest - Pear tree dropped iit's leaves - too dry we think, let's see what happens with the rain.

Food Forest - compost, near the top

Food forest - compost nearer the bottom (better)

Food Forest Cherry tree with leaf-cutter bee damage we think.

Food Forest Madroño 2

Food Forest madroño 3, let's see if they perk up again after the storm.

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Maranya Fest 2022

Our little festival continues in 2022 when we returned to the farm at WildLab for an epic weekend of permaculture, nature and dancing!

Maranya 2022

On June 24th we were back on site at the incredible WildLab farm in Bigues i Riells, arriving in the heat, crammed into the back of Matteo’s party van to set up camp for Maranya 2022.

At the heart of the weekend was our desire to share with you the opportunity to be in nature and to feel our connection with it whilst exploring living permaculture. We had the chance to spend a weekend experiencing community living, sharing and dancing each night in the dome. Beginning our days long after the rooster’s crows, stepping out into the warmth of the sun and sounds of the surrounding forest.

We started Saturday morning with a yoga session which the chickens crept into, meditating and moving our bodies in the morning, and then exploring the offerings that our participants had to share.

The permaculture games hosted by Anna and Juanjo brought out our childlike joy, curiosity and wildly entertaining improv performances from everyone that took part. The vital discussions about soil and food preservation that took place in Sam’s workshops inspired and moved us into new ways of thinking about how we understand and interact with our environment, how we manage our time to create freedom and how we can live in abundance.

We loved the organic flow of skillshares and pop up workshops brought to us: Vadim brought us tea tasting, and brewed pots of tea at just the right times. A Contact Jam movement session from Yuri. Michela shared her passion for reflexology and holistic healing and the gift of healing massages. Valeria set the scene with a gentle, introspective and interactive self-care workshop to bring us home into ourselves on Sunday morning.

A huge special, sparkling shout out for the team of volunteers (Andreea, Ines, Valeria, Luca and Yuri) who supported the event and helped us hold the entire weekend together.

This year saw us running on very Spanish time with a few more obstacles than we could have planned for which had the team stretched whilst we worked to deliver delicious vegetarian meals to the people. We ate well, locally sourced and organic and had plenty of poolside chilling before the music started.

My personal favourite part of Maranya is the music, the dancing and the annual appearance of my tiger suit. The line up was very HOT. Thank you so much to our dear Ines, bringing some feminine energy to the team of DJ’s and huge thanks and love to all the DJ’s who got us dancing for hours and hours: Conxenxa, Mathz, Palladium, Son B2B Raul Naro and Just Luca.

And of course, thank you to each and everyone who came to our little festival! I hope that the magic of Maranya carried into the following days and continues to ripple through our lives.

Much love.

Antonia

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