SUSTAINABLE FARMING
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Growing superfoods on the Canary Islands: Root vegetables
Weather conditions this week, Mogán, Gran Canaria 🌤️ Partly Cloudy Day🌥️ Partly Cloudy Night🌡️ Temperature: 15°C (Night) / 22°C (Day)🌕 Moon Phase: Full Moon I still remember the moment I first realized that food was more than just fuel—it was a mirror of my inner world. After losing my husband three years ago, I found…
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3 Facts Why Our Mangoes Taste Better Than from the Supermarket
Weather conditions this week, Mogán, Gran Canaria 🌤️ Partly Cloudy Day🌥️ Partly Cloudy Night🌡️ Temperature: 16°C (Night) / 22°C (Day)🌔 Moon Phase: Waning Crescent Sometimes, when we offer someone one of our mangoes, they hesitate. “I don’t like mangoes,” they say. They’ve tried them before and didn’t enjoy the taste. But with a little encouragement,…
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From Soil to Table: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Weather conditions this week, Mogán, Gran Canaria 🌫️ Misty Morning☀️ Sunny Days🌡️ Temperature: 18°C (Night) / 24°C (Day)🌘 Moon Phase: Waning Crescent In mindful agriculture, we need to rethink our instinctive judgments about what is “good,” “bad,” and “ugly.” Often, we panic at the sight of insects or plant diseases, fearing they might harm our…
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Rain by Night, Sun by Day: Nature’s Energy Duo for Transformation
Weather conditions this week 🌧️ Rain: Night Showers☀️ Sun: Bright Days🌡️ Temperature: 16°C (Night) / 22°C (Day)🌕 Moon: Full Moon Phase – Rest for the Soil This week in our series, “From Soil to Table: The Path to a Healthy Meal,” nature is offering a balanced rhythm of 🌧️ rain during the nights and ☀️…
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Planting the Seeds of Health: Beginning Our Journey from Soil to Table
Weather conditions this week ☀️ Sun: Full sun🌡️ Temperature: 31°C / 82°F💨 Wind: Calima, hot winds🌒 Rising Moon: Optimal growth phase Welcome to the first article in our series, “From Soil to Table: The Path to a Healthy Meal.” Here, we’ll take you on a journey through the life of the vegetables and fruits grown…
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What does it mean to eat well?
By Fran Garlaz Today, we see in supermarkets: “Milk enriched with Calcium and Potassium,” “Cookies with Vitamins and Minerals”… We have to go to the pharmacy to buy nutritional supplements or medicine… This means we are not eating well; we consume food, but it’s not nourishing us properly. If we ask Grandma: “Grandma, if you…
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To interfere or not to interfere
For us this seems to be the most difficult choices to make in ecological farming. When to interfere in the ecosystem or not. Some say that we have to control it, otherwise a plague can wipe out the whole system. Others say that you have to leave it to nature and that it will automatically…
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EL BOSQUE COMESTIBLE
Vamos a generar un bosque comestible en Gran Canaria mediante técnicas de agroecología, basándonos en la biodiversidad de los ecosistemas locales, para producir alimentos de alta calidad nutricional y alto valor organoléptico.La finca no solo no producirá emisiones contaminantes sino que será sumidero de carbono. Estableceremos un sistema alimentario sostenible mediante prácticas agrícolas respetuosas con…
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View on the finca from the Mogan viewpoint
From left to right: Yineke, Fran, Naomi and Marisa Second of january 2024, after a visit to the finca in Aldea, we stopped at the viewpoint of Mogan valley to watch the finca.