Regenerative Agriculture: Polyfarming
Regeneration Requires Much More Than Good Intentions (II). La Casa Integral is not an agricultural or livestock company; we are not direct food producers, but our vision is to design, share, and implement “regenerative solutions for people, homes, and communities.” To effectively support these processes, we must understand the different realities of the entire ecosystem—from […]
Supporting the Transition
Supporting the Transition At La Casa Integral, we are passionate about projects that seek to create new models for how we live in this world. La Fàbrica de la Transició is one of them. For several weeks now, we have been working with this housing cooperative—comprising about 20 families—to apply Regenerative Solutions in the redesign […]
What’s included in your #SABERES2022 package?
What’s included in your #SABERES2022 package? Below is a breakdown of what you’re getting when you sign up for one of the following formats of our #SABERES2022 training program. #SABERES2022 online – €330 Approximately 60 hours of training 10 live virtual sessions (the first Wednesday of each month, from January through October), each lasting 2 […]
Contents #KNOWLEDGE for a Possible Future
What will you learn in our #SABERES certified Permaculture Design training? Exactly—SABERES: knowledge for a possible future! We’ll share information, resources, and skills that will help us navigate our increasingly challenging world. Our goal is to empower ourselves—as individuals and as a community—with the knowledge that enables us to live in harmony with our ecosystem, […]
Training #SABERES
The #SABERES online course is here! We at La Casa Integral are pleased to present a newly designed training program. This course teaches you how to design and implement regenerative and resilient strategies for future scenarios in your daily life—starting right from the first module! Like many others, we take an analytical and critical view […]
A #SIRAR for a Municipal Shelter
Traveling around the peninsula again… This time we traveled to Extremadura to design and build a Comprehensive Wastewater Reuse System—a #SIRAR—for a municipal shelter. The SIRAR will be able to manage wastewater for about 30 people, providing a wide variety of ecosystem services such as irrigation for productive areas, forest growth, shade (which is so […]
Living the Questions
In June, we had the pleasure of taking part in an experience of interdependence and deep connection with people from 16 different countries. We came together for a training program funded by the European Union (Erasmus+) at an incredibly beautiful location, Sanillés in La Cerdanya, in the Catalan Pyrenees. Together, we were learning, sharing, and […]
CDP #SABER in collaboration with Mas Les Vinyes
We were finally able to wrap up, certify, and celebrate the 2020-2021 #SABER CDP at Mas Les Vinyes! A basic training course to earn the Certificate in Permaculture Design (CDP) is at least 72 hours long. There are many formats for taking this course, and we’ve tried several over the past 15 years—Aline with PermaMed […]
Online Workshop: DOMESTIC WASTEWATER
In response to requests from our cross-border audience following the #SABERES Seminar—co-created with the Sembrares team for International Permaculture Day this past May—and following the video our colleague Sergi Caballero from Mas Les Vinyes made for us , we are launching this online workshop: DESIGN AND SIZE YOUR COMPREHENSIVE WASTEWATER REUSE SYSTEM (#SIRAR) We offer: […]
An Erasmus+ Training Program for Youth Workers, Sanillés 2021
At the end of June, I had the opportunity to enjoy a stay in a spectacular place, Sanillés, a former spa resort in La Cerdanya, near Martinet. The buildings were impressive, and the landscape was no less so! Anna Gurney, from the Boodaville project, invited me a few months ago to co-facilitate this training for […]