New permaculture institute in southeastern Spain

Some months ago a new permaculture institute called "Institut de Permacultura Iriai" was launched in La Vall de Gallinera, a small valley near the southeastern coast of Spain, in the province of Alicante.
Small but sure steps towards creating an educational node that will work in several languages, catering both for the local population and for people from further away.

https://www.instagram.com/institut_iriai/

¡En hora buena!
Pavle are you involved there?
Cheers

Antonio Scotti wrote:¡En hora buena!
Pavle are you involved there?
Cheers

yes, i'm one of the founders, which sounds very grandiose

How were the courses with Tomas Llop?
I also took some with him some time ago, and I highly enjoyed them
At what stage is your project?
Cheers

Antonio Scotti wrote:How were the courses with Tomas Llop?
I also took some with him some time ago, and I highly enjoyed them
At what stage is your project?
Cheers

Tomàs Llop is a great teacher and the two natural pruning courses we have organised so far have been a success. I think that in this part of Spain there's a lack of quality courses regarding many subjects.
We're currently organising for mid-February a "respectful vine-pruning" course with Tomàs, since he is also a winegrower and applies his knowledge and general empathy regarding plants also to the vineyard and not only to trees. However, vines are quite a different story and so that's why we have organised a separate workshop. We'll see how it goes!
As far as the project in general, we're currently concentrating on setting up a series of workshops, courses and masterclasses for the next few months and next couple of years, so as to provide a wide variety of theoretical and practical tools for this area... a highly agricultural zone that is also very beaten up by conventional chemical agriculture and tourism, and general neglect by central and local governments, which is actually a great opportunity to develop local self-sufficiency and self-organisation.
We are also starting to prepare the first issue of a journal or magazine that we want to publish on paper more or less regularly, dealing with all these topics related to agriculture, permaculture (in a wide sense of the word), rural life, mountain life, etc. It will be a sort of complement to the rest of the work we'll be doing, and sometimes a black-on-white manifestation of questions and conclusions made in real life.
And we're also slowly planning the building of an education centre, in the meantime working on the fields and orchards that we already manage since some years ago, putting into practice new designs that we have developed for them.

Are you based in Barcelona?

Wow! It sound amazing all the things you are doing. Well done!

Yes I am based in Barcelona. I have met Tomás many times and usually we buy his olive oil in our food coop.

I am a permaculture designer and teacher and part of the Iberian Permaculture Academy which offers the Diploma in Applied permaculture design
https://academiapermaculturaibera.org/

I did once his vine pruning workshop...I think I should take it again ...

Best
Antonio

Antonio Scotti wrote:I did once his vine pruning workshop...I think I should take it again ...

it's not very close to you but if you're really really really interested, it's not that far!