The farm El Cerro is a local project of creating new Natural and agrocultural reserve. The project is pilot and unique in whole province of Madrid. The work of volunteers will be manual and diverse, Monday i Friday, aprx. 5-6 hours per day. The type of tasks: to clean and maintain ecologic garden, construction of bird boxes, troughs for feeding animals, walls, mantaining touristic paths and making marks for these, and so on.
Accomodation & food:
Accomodation: provided in big shared tents (rooms for 2 or 3) to share within participants, in the Camping Monte Holiday (http://www.monteholiday.com/en/home), with toilet area, hot water, washing machines and recreation areas, swimming pool and wi-fi connection contained. You need to bring mat and sleeping bag. Food will be prepared by volunteers themselves, using camping gas.
Location & leisure:
The workcamp takes place in Gargantilla del Lozoya, small village of Sierra Norte about 80km far away from Madrid. Gargantilla is part of several municipalities of the Valley of Lozoya, most of these are little villages but you can find all you need to live. It s near Buitrago del Lozoya or Rascafria, these are larger villages, and there you can find banks and greater shops as well. Also, the distance from Madrid is approximately 80 Km, and you can reach the capital in an hour more or less.
Requirements:
Mat and sleeping bag required
Age:
1-99
Location:
Gargantilla del lozoya, madrid
Language(s):
English
Airport:
MAD: Barajas (Madrid, Spain)
Trainstation:
Madrid barajas
Extra Fees:
€100.00 (Euros)Whole families, with kids, are allowed.
The farm El Cerro is a local project of creating new Natural and agrocultural reserve. The project is pilot and unique in whole province of Madrid. The work of volunteers will be manual and diverse, Monday i Friday, aprx. 5-6 hours per day. The type of tasks: to clean and maintain ecologic garden, construction of bird boxes, troughs for feeding animals, walls, mantaining touristic paths and making marks for these, and so on.
Accomodation & food:
Accomodation: provided in big shared tents (rooms for 2 or 3) to share within participants, in the Camping Monte Holiday (http://www.monteholiday.com/en/home), with toilet area, hot water, washing machines and recreation areas, swimming pool and wi-fi connection contained. You need to bring mat and sleeping bag. Food will be prepared by volunteers themselves, using camping gas.
Location & leisure:
The workcamp takes place in Gargantilla del Lozoya, small village of Sierra Norte about 80km far away from Madrid. Gargantilla is part of several municipalities of the Valley of Lozoya, most of these are little villages but you can find all you need to live. It s near Buitrago del Lozoya or Rascafria, these are larger villages, and there you can find banks and greater shops as well. Also, the distance from Madrid is approximately 80 Km, and you can reach the capital in an hour more or less.
Requirements:
Mat and sleeping bag required.
Age:
18-28
Location:
Gargantilla del lozoya, madrid
Language(s):
English
Airport:
MAD: Barajas (Madrid, Spain)
Trainstation:
Madrid barajas
Extra Fees:
€100.00 (Euros)Whole families, with kids, are allowed.
Huerto de la Cora is an associtaion to promote the implementation of Agroecology. Probably you are asking yourself what exactly Agroecology stands for? We can say it is a Science, not an ideology, for the development of agriculture in harmony with the ecosystems and the social and culture heritage. It is a kind of mixture of agrology, environment and antropology but we must state that to develop it the scientific method is the only tool used, and it is the consequence of research and investigations done by university professors. The opposite to Huerto de la Cora is Monsantos policy with Genetically Modified Seeds. These seeds represent the inadequate way to develope agriculture not taking into consideration the environment, culture and food sovereignty.
Huerto de la Cora tries to recover the local seeds for vegetables, which represent an inmense World heritage created during centuries and centuries of the Human kind, investigates the plants produced and distributes the seeds in a free open way among people interested in self gardening and food sovereign. They use the method of the arabic gardens in the islamic Spain from the VII to XIV century when theis culture managed to introduce so many vegetables in Europe coming from Asia - all sorts of garlic, onions, leaks, paprika, lettuce, carrot etc. Just think that the only original vegetable of Europe is cabbage. The rest is imported. This arabic garden is called Garden of La Cora or Huerto de la Cora. Huerto de la Cora has managed to find more than 500 species from different veggies from Spain. Next step was to gather seeds coming from the rest of the World, basically from America where we got also a big ammount of new products (potatoes, corn, tomatoes, avocados, etc).
Project:
So the second phase of this project is to create a new Garden or Huerto del Mundo or Graden of the World, which was actually sarted in 2013 by some volunteers from Spain, France and Germany in a Youth Exchange called Pilla la Semilla y Acribilla.
Huerto de la Cora is conected to the Universite Pablo Olavide of Sevillla. http://www.esenciatv.es/video.php?id=245
Work:
The volunteers will help to construct the different parts of Huerto del Mundo. That is moving stones, sand and cenment. That means constructing and aso planting. It means hard work, and devotion for the work been done. The idea is gathering volunteers that like constructing or that like agriculture but basicly volunteers motivated about the horrible consecuences of a policy which can lead us to a lost of food soveriegnety. Therefore work will be very hard, but at the same time very meaningfull.
Accommodation:
To be determinate but probably at a high school or sports centre. The living conditions are basic, please bring a sleeping bag and a mat as there is no camp beds. The centre is equipped with showers and WC. The volunteers will prepare their breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Location:
Jodar is a beatiful village located close to Jaen. The main economical activity is agriculture and it is located surrounded by the Natural Park of Sierra Magina which is a natural area with high quality lansdcape, pure and nearly virgin. Volunteers will have excellent possibilities to visit Cordoba/Granada or Seville and othe spots like Jaén (Arabic baths and cathedral), Ubeda and Baeza. There is also a chance of doing the hiking route through the Serrezuela and the Sierra Magina and even to have a parapente experience in Pegalajar Easy excursions to Granada, Cordoba and maybe Seville after the workcamp.
Terminal:
Granada-Jaen FGL (GRX). Others Malaga Costa del Sol (AGP), Sevilla (SVQ) and Madrid Adolfo Suarez Barajas (MAD).
Special requirements:
Motivation, interest in ecology and agriculture. Activists are more than welcome.
Take into consideration the following features:
- Participants are really asked to be very motivated. It is a project where volunteer work is NEEDED. - It will be hot in the day and hot in the night. The landscape of Jodar is dry. Be prepared for over 40º Celsius temperature. Nevertheless it will be possible to go to the river and swim.
« I would recommend participating in a workcamp, especially with VAP, who ensured that I found a project to suit me and provided essential training for me in preparation for my trip. Being part of a workcamp really is a life-changing experience, oh, and it looks great on your CV! »
