Hydrological Consulting in Las Majadillas
Cortijo Las Majadillas, a farm with a regenerative vision 600 hectares.A farmhouse.Hundreds of cork oak trees.60 cows of various breeds.5 horses.2 streams, 1 river, 2 springs.One small reservoir and one larger one.About 1,000 mm of annual rainfall.Several geological faults.Three generations of livestock management.Constant hunting activity.Gully erosion, waterlogged areas, and parched areas.Livestock mortality due to drought.Insufficient […]
Hydrological landscape design
WATER IS LIFE The carrying capacity of an ecosystem is the relationship between the availability of available resources and the number of living organisms that can take advantage of them. Although the evaluation of this “Carrying Capacity” is considered “multifactorial”, at the base of every food chain and of every resource availability is… Water. The […]
CDP #ONLINEKNOWLEDGE
Design for Resilience in your own Integral House This is a course to learn how to Design and Implement Regenerative Solutions for Future scenarios. We will lower the ecological footprint of our homes and increase the level of our personal and community resilience. We will reach out to you as you are introduced to Home […]
Gifts for World WATER Day
Water comes from the sky, from the ground…or by truck. March 22nd is World WATER Day. This same week, the UN is also meeting in New York to discuss the topic, in order to accelerate the Water Agenda and be able to cover SDG6. In 2022 we have experienced the hottest summer since 1950 according […]
Design for me
Egocentric? Maybe it’s frowned upon. Designing for me, how bad it sounds. Shouldn’t we be designing for Life, for the Regeneration of Bioregions, for Community? And if we say “also”, it indicates our interdependence. It becomes visible that we are part of a larger system, and this in turn of several even larger fractals. We […]
Design Rationale
Oh, motivation, my motivation! Where are you? I can’t design without you! The design process involves both analyzing functions and elements to meet needs and drawing on creativity and inspiration. After all, it’s like a poem. You arrange words into a sentence (elements of the system), evoke images of the future (you work with beauty […]
Calendar of 01/2023
2022 ANNUAL REPORT
After a very eventful 2021—as you may have read on our blog a year ago—came the “turning point” year, or at least that’s how we feel! So much to share, so much to celebrate! Toward the Horizon We use permaculture to design paths, to reach the place we want to go, and to come to […]
So what now?
You’ve earned your Permaculture Design Certificate—congratulations! COMMUNITY Welcome to a growing global community that has been around for more than 40 years—if we’re talking about the “label” (the term “permaculture” has been in use as a concept since 1978). So what now? Perhaps there are other people around you who feel united under that hashtag, […]
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, […]