Community
What is community for us?
It is a natural openness to support where we can, based on respect and love for the people we care for,
while staying true to our own boundaries.
It is a gathering of people with the same resonance.
It is a natural knowing that everything is connected:
In the end there are no separate projects, but everything is part of a communal whole.
A common wish and desire to live more in line with nature moves us,
which goes beyond all superficial differences, connecting on a deeper level.
We are neighbors, but also live in differents parts of the world, we all live separately,
and yet we are connected, we are community <3
We support local and global community projects
Ongoing projects
Establishing a new well.
(Project facilitated by In Line with Nature)
Water is life.
It is key to producing our own food and changing deserts into green landscapes again. For us water means food for our community. To develop our Natural Farm, the first years we need water to awaken the soil and plant many many different varieties of trees, plants and bushes. After a while, nature will take over.
In this dry climate, on the verge of desertification, it is a game changer. We already received permission for the digging of the well, the administrative procedure should be finalized very soon, then we are ready to dig. To support this project, we need funds up to 5000€ (depending on the meters we will have to dig).
Restoring the spring and local oven
(Project facilitated by In Line with Nature)
In a community water, food and shelter are the main basic needs. This little hub used to be self-sufficient. Now, a lot of houses are abandoned, or only used as weekend - holiday stay. We want to re-vive this amazingly beautiful place and restore the local spring so that the abandoned vegetable gardens can flourish again. (Currently the pipes are broken and the water, which irrigated the old vegetable gardens is lost). Also, we want to fix and repaint the old communal oven, so once again, we can bake our bread together and share it with others.
Finished projects
A new website
for Natural Farming NGO
(Project facilitated by In Line with Nature)
We love Natural Farming and want to contribute to Masanobu Fukuoka's legacy in our own way. The Natural Farming NGO, started by Kutluhan Ozdemir, aims to establish natural farms all over the world. They do this by offering advice, weekends and workshops about Natural Farming. Besides that, they want to afforest as many fields as possible with seed balls and they want to provide people with real and natural food at affordable prices.
Matthias has been setting up a new website for their organisation, so what they do becomes more visible, is more structured and people will be able to support their work through donations.
Setting up a crowdfunding to protect the Valley (Local project)
When we heard this beautiful piece of land in the valley, 5 min from our own house would be sold to hunters and used for commercial agriculture, we felt a deep NO.
We helped the neighbors with the set up of their association and made the video for a crowdfunding, in the hope to do a counter offer on the land.
We would love to thank everyone who donated for and supported this project. Unfortunately we were not able to do a counter offer and the owners agreed to sell the land to the other party. Our neighbors decided to refund all donations. We recently heard the final signature is not being placed, because of legal aspects, so for now, nothing is happening with the land. We will see what the future brings, and we don't hesitate to act when necessary to protect this amazing spot in the mountains.
A new website for BioSegura (Local project)
BioSegura organizes many activities which are contributing to a strong network amongst organic farmers and like minded people. They weekly deliver organic local food at your doorstep in the Murcia province, they established a seed bank with over 2000 varieties, educate in schools, organise open doors at their suppliers, are co-founders of the Vecinos Campesinos label which promotes a different marketing model, based on trust and participation, where the rapprochement, knowledge and exchange between producers and consumers is simpler, closer and more real.
As we believe food security and local networks will be so important in the future, we created a new website for BioSegura to help them become more visible.
Helping the local community house (Local project)
Casa Marabella is the local community house, just 5 minutes from our mountain in the valley, where a lot of people stayed. The doors where always open on donation base, so everyone has been welcome. Up until now the owner was able to pay all taxes from the donations, but due to leaks in the roof and the terrace there are severe damages in the house. The solar panel system needs replacement too. We stayed in this house for 6 months, during the reformations of our own house, building a relationship with the owner and coordinator. When we left, we bought new furniture, beds and mattresses to support them.
We also wanted to support them with the reformations, so we set up a crowdfunding and spread the word in our local network. By doing this, the house will be available for many (young) people in the future who want to learn more about a new economy, permaculture, self sustainability, food forests, and get to know the projects of our local community here like ecological construction, wood craft workshops,...
