Our Own Mortar
On the west side of the house the ground is quite clayey. The interns decided to work on that earth, extract it, to give it a future use. Essentially, they make piles out…
Solar Oven is ready
After quite an amount of work, some thinking and some sweating, the solar oven is ready. Essentially, along the process of building the oven, we’ve come to understand, at a deeper level, how…
“Intelligent Beehives” Part I
Annemie Maes, from ONKO, a Belgian non-profit organization, has visited Valldaura for a few days and conducted the first part of the “Intelligent Beehives” workshop. Through that workshop, the interns have learned the…
Structure for Solar Showers and Dry Toilets
During the next week, both the dry toilets and the solar showers will be built and installed. That is why Oscar Gussinyer and Pepe Valls, from Coop 33, came to build the bases…
Preparing New Plantations
During this week, the interns have been working on the construction of a small greenhouse, were we will be able to plant the seeds and keep them monitored and warmer when the weather…
“Keyhole” orchards
The interns have been working on adapting some of the terraces and fields that surround the house, making them fit for the new orchards. This Friday, they focused on the permaculture “keyhole” design….
Wood Burning Stove and Solar Oven
After a few days, cooking has been improved. On one hand, Juan Gonzalo and Alfred, with the help of other interns, have been working on a solar oven. A concave reflective structure that…
Preparing the Beehives
In a few days the “Intelligent Beehives” workshop will be hold in Valldaura. Meanwhile, Jonathan Minchin, John Rees and Ferran Masip, three students of the FabLab Academy, have been working for weeks on…
Structures for the Beehives
During the next few days Valldaura will hold the workshop “Intelligent Beehives”, the first part of a project on the monitorization of beehives through sensors while exploring different materials and appliances on…
Getting ready for the interns
The first signs of habitability are too obvious now to be ignored. The final touches here and there have been made, and what was before an empty huge edification, appears now as a…
