First Hugelkultur garden
The first hugelkultur orchard has been set in the perimeter of the Valldaura house. In our case, the reasons respond to an environmental and functional demand. First, there are a huge amount of…
Mariano Bueno’s Workshop
This 24th, 25th and 26th of May Mariano Bueno has been in ValldauraLabs offering a workshop about biointensive horticulture. He’s an expert, a pioneer and a great divulgator of Ecological Agriculture, Geobiology, Bioconstructions…
Mushrooms Workshop by Ferran Masip
During the 20th of May, Ferran Masip Valls visited Valldaura to teach a Workshop on Edible Mushroom growing. At the beginning, Masip gathered the group of interns, and without further explanation, told them…
Berlin students visit Valldaura
TU-Berlin’s Urban Design & Communication (urbandesign.staedtebau.tu-berlin.de) – together with students from Michigan State University (MSU) and TU-Dortmund – visited IaaC’s Valldaura Campus during a trip to Barcelona. The excursion served as an introductory week to…
Intelligent Beehive done!
Finally, the first of Intelligent Beehives is settled on the Valldaura fields. It is the first of what will be Valldauras’ honeybee hives.
Mapping Valldaura
As part of the International Permaculture Day celebrations at Valldaura Labs, the Action Group started off the days’ events by digitally mapping the walk from Mundet Metro station to Valldaura. The excursion took…
Rocket Heater for the coffee
Preparing coffee may take long in the kitchen. One of the interns, Victor Guber, decided to solve the problem building a rocket heater. A rocket heater is a highly efficient heater, which uses…
Visit of Josep Lluís Martinet
Last Thursday we received the visit of Josep Lluís Martinet, owner of the renowned Bodega Mas Martinet. It’s always great to be influenced by such insightful people.
Josep Mascaró and Collserola
Josep Mascaró, head architect of the Collserola Park, has taken a group of students of Valldaura to the Magerola hill, a close-by location. It is a peculiar place, right at the end of…
Henhouse Routines
Every morning, around 7am, the interns go to the henhouse to open it, so the chiken, ducks and goose can wake up for the day. The aninals then have access to the space…
