Garden to Plate workshop
Finca Encuentro hosted a small workshop on how to harvest veggies, explaining harvesting techniques,proterpies of the food and benefits of organic farming. As we like to apply all our learned knowledge, the workshoed continued into the harvest and elaboration of a salad in our workshop kitchen which we later had the luxury to taste.
Taller de Bokashi -liquid fertilizer
Taller de Bokashi – fertilizante liquido – Bokashi is a liquid fertilizer that can be done super easy by everyone looking to give an ecological but strong boost of nutrients to your plants. Bokashi is Japanese and means “fermented organic matter.” Developed in the early 1980s by Dr. Teuro Higa, a professor at the University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan, the method uses kitchen scraps in layers (vegetables and fruits, as well as meat and dairy scraps) enabling the reduction of your biological waste to a minimum. At Finca Encuentro we showed how to do a simple version with just a few ingredients that could be purchased in your local supermarket.
Introduction workshop into the significance of sustainability & importance for our future by Frank David Labunski (Researcher for Energy Policy at the climate Institute Wuppertal)
The aim of this workshop was to give an overview of our current world situation and the non sustainable practices that we as a human race are undertaking and the moment, explaining where this will lead us and make it transparent to an inclined but not yet so aware audience. Topics we touched where: Waste Management, power, climate, pollution. To lighten the mood after this heavy topic we rounded the workshop with some simple tactics to compact some of the outlined effects by taking inspiration in our garden.
Water recycling workshop
On September 13 we had a little workshop elaboration on the possible ways of home and self reliant water treatment. After an introduction into the importance and significance of water we explored different options of treatment in theory and later went over to test a simply made model (out of reused materials) to showcase the functionality of a simple septic tank and show the filter effect even despite the microorganism in this small experiment. Latest articles