Visiting Carlos Márquez’s farm last week, is nestled deep in a valley just a few kilometres from the Mediterranean coast East of Malaga, I was struck by the abundance of the land despite the incredibly dry season they are having here. While Carlos and all the farmers around have been forced to occasionally irrigate their […]
Carlos shows us how he uses vetiver grass to mulch his avocado trees.
Vetiver grass with Carlos Márquez
A living countryside. A vibrant rural culture. A beautiful agro-ecological landscape. All good things that most people, whether urban, suburban or rural, would like to see. Yet, almost everywhere we look in Europe, the opposite is happening: as the young leave, the life of the countryside is not able to regenerate itself, the rural culture
The key to reversing rural depopulation
I am lucky enough to live in Andalusia, in Southern Spain, where I work with an amazing group of small farmers with whom I founded a cooperative, Tierra y Libertad. Our aim is not just to support small scale organic farmers financially, by selling their products at a fair price, but to support the whole
Tierra y Libertad visits Jose González at Tropicultura in Jete, province of Granada in Spain. In this video we see the stark difference between his regenerative agricultural techniques and his nieghbours conventional techniques. See immediately the difference between regenerative agriculture that nurtures life and creates abundance, and conventional agriculture which… doesn’t.
The difference between regenerative and conventional orchards
