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.
Happy 2023! Lou is back with details of our syntropic agriculture experiment and updates on other activities over holidays.
This week Lou, founder of Boodavile, presents the new almond grove and earthworks plan, plus a beautiful idea and reflections on life this week.
Updates from the Food Forest at Boodaville in October 2021
Many thanks to our amazing volunteer Javier Regidor who took our design for Agroforestry in a vineyard to the BiorNE permaculture conference. Read the comments and feedback we received!
In this post we share the initial designs for converting a vineyard in the Vall Rovira into Regenerative Agroforestry and share our plan for consultation sessions. We aim to complete the design at the end of September 2021.
The Rovira Regenerativa team visited Boodaville last weekend for planting, and two very successful COVID friendly workshops on plant associations. Hooray! It IS possible to DO things!
Last weekend we worked on the abandoned terrace project, digging a swale, planting trees and grafting pistachio branches onto “pistachia lentiscus”.
As part of the Rovira Regenerativa project we are experimenting with ways to design productive terraces using regenerative agriculture techniques, with no irrigation in a semi-arid mediterranean climate. This post explains the first steps recuperating an abandoned olive terrace.
In 2017 we implemented a very simple greywater system from the kitchen sink to a mulch basin. Looking at the photos now I can’t believe we didn’t do more for the poor quality soil!
Notes and summary of ideas from the first weekend of the Regenerative Agroforestry course at Mas les Vinyes