Finca Verde

Location: Lanjaron, Spain
Status: Open for volunteers, other visitors welcome by appointment
Permanent resident capacity: 3
Volunteer resident capacity: flexible - from May 2022
Current population:
- 2 human residents
- 3 dogs,
- 1 daily farmer visitor

The Seven Domains of Permaculture Action in Practice

The Finca is around 7km from Lanjaron

The land consists of several plots of land including:

Name of Plot	Cultivating	Size	Irrigation Status	Next steps
South Side	Olives, some fruit trees	1 ha	irrigated with watering pipes	~~Clearing up last season pruning, rolling over the weeds~~, fixing irrigation system parts
East Side	Olives, some fruit trees	1.6 ha	irrigated with watering pipes	End of the season rolling over the green manure
Orange grove	Oranges	2 acres	irrigated by overflow/watering pipes	roll over weeds when dry
Almond hill	Almonds	0.7 ha	not irrigated	harvest in August
The Wilderness top	none	1 acre	not irrigated	none
The Wilderness valley	Olives	1 acre	irrigated by overflow	none

It has a small two-bedroom farmhouse (Cortijo)
A water deposit (Alberca).
A tool shed
A horse stable
A chicken coup
A pig stye
An Alberca

In the pipeline:

Outdoor shower
Compost toilet
Micro cabin
Outdoor kitchen

Facilities

Electricity is connected (220V, 3kW) » needs to be upgraded to 5kW

Irrigation water through the local irrigation system (acequia) is available every Sunday for 6 hours.

Potable water is available free from the town - but has to be brought in canisters from Lanjaron at the moment. We are monitoring potable water use.

Vision

We want to

transform a conventional olive & almond farm into a permaculture organic regenerative farm
offer a space of learning and reconnecting with nature
Participate in the local economy
support and participate in aligned local community projects
provide regenerative services

Here's a summarized history.

Visiting

At the moment we can only offer a space to park or a camping spot.

Visits are welcome but please only by appointment.

Volunteers

Please read here for more information.

Laboratorio hoja de olivo - análisis del suelo y del agua

We are in the process of setting up a soil and water analysis lab. More info on this soon.

Research

There's a lot of research to be done in order to make this a financially sustainable and regenerative project. We collect these topics here.

Projects

We are not especially spiritual, our ethos is to live peacefully in nature and with our neighbours, building a community of mutual care. We love the quiet stillness of the countryside and would like to keep it this way.

At the moment work on the land is privately financed but we hope to turn the farm into a self-sustaining project.

Farm Accounting records

Services

Wish List

A list of things we need/want to have.

Suppliers

Farm suppliers

The farm is privately owned but we are thinking about ways in which to preserve the land for stewardship.

Land Stewards Programme

Governance

The resident team meet monthly to discuss the following:

financial health check
roundup of last month's activities
next steps

Volunteers are welcome to attend if they wish.

Work management

We use Gitlab for tracking and assigning work, the permanent residents will be using this system, the volunteers will not be required to use it. Instead, the farm manager will work hand in hand with the volunteers to explain the tasks that need completing.

Finca Verde

The Seven Domains of Permaculture Action in Practice

Land and Nature Stewardship

Building

Tools and Technology