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Tending Avant Garden Workshop

Given by Miguel Moreno

Sunday 28 April 12 noon to 2 pm.

Workshops for tending Avant Garden, an urban garden designed by atelier le balto. Avant Garden is a wild rose garden, a garden shared by visitors, creators, passersby... a place for coexistence and exchange, for learning, enjoyment and rest. Workshops are usually focused on exploring the concepts and philosophy underlying atelier le balto’s design for the garden. Planting season continues at the garden.

The 3R group, part of the CRPS of Arganzuela, collaborates in tending Avant Garden every other Friday from 12- 14 pm. The workshops occasionally become times for exchanges, taking cuttings cultivated at Avant Garden to other green spaces in Madrid, such as la Huerta de Roberto in Carabanchel, Esta es una Plaza in Lavapiés and la Huerta de Madrid Salud in Usera.

Workshop in horticultural production

Ecosecha

10 of april, 5 pm - 8 pm

An intensive theory and practical workshop on different techniques in horticultural production related to organic agriculture.
 
This workshop aims to work on the theory and practice using knowledge about different techniques in horticultural production, dealing with different content related to organic agriculture:

- Seeds: Harvest, storage, and seed planting.
 
- Transplants: Care during production and transplanting.
 
- "Non-commercial" local varieties: Care, framework and planting distances, other work.

Limited availability. Sign-up will be based on order of requests and will be confirmed via e-mail. bancodesemillas@ecosecha.es

Seed exchange bank event
Ecosecha

Seed exchange day.  Thursday 4 April at 18 h.

The Seed Exchange Bank is an initiative in favour of decentralizing control of seeds and questioning the management models we generate or in which we take part in this culture with our current way of life. The Seed Exchange Bank and the activities it holds are offered as a metaphor for the need for change in society today.

The first Thursday of each month, a seed exchange session is held for growers, horticulture enthusiasts, and anyone interested in being part of a social network based on organic and sustainable principles, where know-how can be shared about working with seeds and ways to enhance organic agriculture in Madrid.

The Seed Exchange Bank can be visited on a regular basis at the Terrario at Intermediae.

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Tending Avant Garden Workshop
Given by Miguel Moreno

Sunday 24 February 12 noon to 2 pm.

Workshops for tending Avant Garden, an urban garden designed by atelier le balto. Avant Garden is a wild rose garden, a garden shared by visitors, creators, passersby... a place for coexistence and exchange, for learning, enjoyment and rest. Workshops are usually focused on exploring the concepts and philosophy underlying atelier le balto’s design for the garden. Planting season continues at the garden.

The 3R group, part of the CRPS of Arganzuela, collaborates in tending Avant Garden every other Friday from 12- 14 pm. The workshops occasionally become times for exchanges, taking cuttings cultivated at Avant Garden to other green spaces in Madrid, such as la Huerta de Roberto in Carabanchel, Esta es una Plaza in Lavapiés and la Huerta de Madrid Salud in Usera.

Seed exchange bank event
Ecosecha

Seed exchange day.  Thursday 7 February at 18 h.

The Seed Exchange Bank is an initiative in favour of decentralizing control of seeds and questioning the management models we generate or in which we take part in this culture with our current way of life. The Seed Exchange Bank and the activities it holds are offered as a metaphor for the need for change in society today.

The first Thursday of each month, a seed exchange session is held for growers, horticulture enthusiasts, and anyone interested in being part of a social network based on organic and sustainable principles, where know-how can be shared about working with seeds and ways to enhance organic agriculture in Madrid.

The Seed Exchange Bank can be visited on a regular basis at the Terrario at Intermediae.

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Seed exchange bank event
Ecosecha

Thursday 3 January, 6 pm

The Seed Exchange Bank is an initiative in favour of decentralizing control of seeds and questioning the management models we generate or in which we take part in this culture with our current way of life. The Seed Exchange Bank and the activities it holds are offered as a metaphor for the need for change in society today.

The first Thursday of each month, a seed exchange session is held for growers, horticulture enthusiasts, and anyone interested in being part of a social network based on organic and sustainable principles, where know-how can be shared about working with seeds and ways to enhance organic agriculture in Madrid.

The Seed Exchange Bank can be visited on a regular basis at the Terrario at Intermediae.

ecosecha.blogspot.com
bis.intermediae.es

Seed exchange bank event
Ecosecha

Thursday 13 December, 6 pm

The Seed Exchange Bank is an initiative in favour of decentralizing control of seeds and questioning the management models we generate or in which we take part in this culture with our current way of life. The Seed Exchange Bank and the activities it holds are offered as a metaphor for the need for change in society today.

The first Thursday of each month, a seed exchange session is held for growers, horticulture enthusiasts, and anyone interested in being part of a social network based on organic and sustainable principles, where know-how can be shared about working with seeds and ways to enhance organic agriculture in Madrid.

The Seed Exchange Bank can be visited on a regular basis at the Terrario at Intermediae.

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GUERRILLA HUERTA
Articultores, Free Culture!

Meetings and Workshops. Saturdays 1 and 15 December from 12 to 14 p.m.

Articultores is a group of people with three interests: art, gardens and people (community), united by a concept of free culture. They promote the free transit of culture, food and persons using several tools to create opportunities in which people with similar interests can meet, think and develop projects together. Articultores creates a platform for people to participate collectively.
One of the tools is the Guerrilla Huerta. With Guerrilla Huerta we walk around the city looking for abandoned sites to attack them and make them more visible. We attack them with seed bombs (small balls made of soil, clay and seeds). All the information is uploaded onto a public map, so anyone can find the points attacked to maintain or harvest them.

The encounters are structured through the following:

1- Thinking of attack strategies while we make seed bombs.
2 – Exploring the city searching for unused spaces as we take note of each site.
3 – Attacking unused spaces, while we take photos and publish them.
4-  Go back to 1.

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SEED EXCHANGE BANK EVENT

Ecosecha
Thursday 8 November, 6 pm

The Seed Exchange Bank is an initiative in favour of decentralizing control of seeds and questioning the management models we generate or in which we take part in this culture with our current way of life. The Seed Exchange Bank and the activities it holds are offered as a metaphor for the need for change in society today.

The first Thursday of each month, a seed exchange session is held for growers, horticulture enthusiasts, and anyone interested in being part of a social network based on organic and sustainable principles, where know-how can be shared about working with seeds and ways to enhance organic agriculture in Madrid.

The Seed Exchange Bank can be visited on a regular basis at the Terrario at Intermediae.

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SEED EXCHANGE BANK / What do we harvest? Biodiversity Forum
Ecosecha

Friday 21 September from 4 - 9:30 p.m. Biodiversity Forum.
From Friday 21 to Sunday 23 September. Exhibit of horticultural varieties.

What do we harvest? The Biodiversity Forum is an annual gathering organized by the Seed Exchange Bank, to enable sharing various types of horticultural production experiences. This year, special attention will be focused on the situation of local varieties raised by organic farmer Josep Roselló.
In addition, there will be a group exhibit of horticultural varieties produced from seeds that are part of the Seed Exchange Bank.
Users of the Exchange Bank are encouraged to contribute to the exhibit to share the diversity of varieties and learning observation and recognition to distinguish them.
To participate in the exhibit with a sample from your harvest or to present your experience, contact: bancodesemillas@ecosecha.es

Programme for Friday 21 September:
Starting at 4 p.m. Reception of the gardeners bringing horticultural varieties to the exhibit.
6:15 p.m. Presentation.
6.30 p.m. Situation of local varieties. Josep Roselló, organic farmer and expert on local varieties.
7.30 p.m. Table exhibit of experiences:
* Red de Huertos Urbanos Comunitarios de Madrid
* Asociación La Troje
* Almudena Lázaro. Researcher at the Agricultural and Food Research Department of IMIDRA
* Amateur farmers
* Professional organic producer
9.00 p.m. Tasting local varieties.