Recover the Mediterranean Diversity

An important part of our work is done thanks to the hands of hundreds of volunteers who come every year to sow with us. And since last year 2023 we also count on the hands of the young European volunteers of ESc Erasmus +. At the moment we are recruiting the 12 young women who will

Last week was International Forest Day, and also International Water Day. Here in Andalusia both are becoming increasingly scarce, and they are interdependent.
In the picture you can see a technique we tried for example in the Banana Mountain project in Tíjola (Alpujarra of Granada)

So that you can see that if we get together, many good things can be done, we bring you images of the reforestation actions in Los Guájares, a neighboring project with which we collaborate.
After a terrible fire that happened a year and a half ago, as a result of the initiative of

A few days ago we were once again doing some volunteer work. On Saturday 24th we gathered in Bayacas about 15 people to prepare the seed shelters, acorn protectors against mice, which were going to be sown during the following days. On a very pleasant morning we assembled 2500 shelters

Last Sunday 18th we went back to Sierra Lujar to the area we call Olias 2, to continue sowing acorns inside the seedshelters, taking advantage of the water left in the soil by the last rains. It was an intimate day, with a small group of volunteers. We were about 10 people and we

We are celebrating the good rains that have finally arrived and organising reforestation sowings in Sierra Lujar (and other mountains in the province of Granada) for the coming weeks. For Sierra Lujar we have organised several local volunteer days, for which many people are already

A couple of weeks ago our volunteers from the European Solidarity Corps were at the SeedLab last week cleaning and selecting the harvested seeds, mainly acorns and wild olives. In some posts we published last year December, we explained the whole harvesting and preservation process

Knowing how many trees are thriving is fundamental to know the success of different strategies in order to continue with them, improve them, implement other techniques, etc.
Here we have the volunteers of the European Solidarity Corps in the middle of counting seedlings in the

On Saturday, the volunteers of the European Voluntary Corps and members of Semillistas participated in a day of volunteering at Finca La Herradura (Tíjola) where the educational project Banana Mountain is being developed, along with other artistic and land regeneration projects.

For

Volunteers from the European Solidarity Corps that are with us visited last friday the SeedLab.
This is the place in which we study and develop the biotechnology of forest seeds, using techniques known as "priming" and "pelleting" (with or without mycorrhizae), as well as conservation

On Saturday 28th we held the first local volunteering day of the season, in which also the participants of the European Solidarity Corps CES volunteering programme took part. We were more than 30 people working in the area of Camino de los Mineros, in Sierra Lujar, preparing the

Semillistas is organising and hosting 15 young people between 20-30 years old from all over Europe. They have come to Órgiva thanks to the European Solidarity Corps (Erasmus + programme) with the desire to regenerate Sierra Lújar.
For two months they will volunteering reforesting