Collaboration with el Club de Leones
Finca Encuentro had an important collaboration with the Lions Club at the end of 2023 with whom they organised two donations. The first, of three hundred and eighty lettuces to the San Antonio de La Vera school. The second, of twenty lettuces and four banana plants to the school of Punta Brava.With these contributions, both schools have increased their organic garden and continue their educational work.
Garden to vegan plate – brunch workshop
Following some impressions on our garden produce to vegan plate brunch workshop. In this workshop we took participants to our garden and explained the selection of veggies and fruits which we would later convert into the vegan brunch. The elaboration took place in our workshop kitchen prepared for these types of events.
Rose Water and herbal sirup Workshop
The 14.11.2023 was time for a new workshop being done in our workshop kitchen. Together with our visitors we showed and elaborated rose water from our garden as well as the production of herbal syrup. We have to emphasis the luxury that we feel being able to educate people into producing their own food and being able to showcase it with our self grown ingredients. For more details on how to make it yourself please check our newsletter for the next workshop :)
Visit and presentation of the ecological and sustainable farm to the official language school of Icod de los Vinos.
Finca Encuentro was delighted to receive 20 students from the EOI (official language school of Icod de los Vinos) to show the ecological and sustainable practices applied live. The Finca Tour also included an introduction to the organic farming of the Canary Island banana and its importance on a national level. Following the tour of the Finca was a tree planting workshop using the “Ellen white method”. The visit ended with a homemade snack made with ingredients from the garden to get strength again and show the result of agriculture in a delicious way. Introduction of organic banana farming in the Canary Islands and its importance at the national level Explanation of recycled materials and circular economy Preparation and explanation of planting and required materials Planting a “false pepper” Hands in action Ellen White method for planting Pizza snack with ingredients from the finca Materials for planting Gracias por la visita EOI – Let´s bee green together!
Interactive permaculture principles workshop
Finca Encuentros first real permaculture workshop hosted by Patrick permaculture coach & teacher in the making. In this first workshop we covered the permaculture ethics and principles. Our workshops are designed to be as interactive as possible which means that our participants are as much involved as they can be. We reasoned the principals together and brainstormed on our recycled chalkboard. After the first brainstorming and theoretical part we endeavoured through our finca applying the first principle of “observe & interact” to try to find examples of the implementation of the other principals. To finish up and chit chat what had been learned we closed the workshop with a lemongrass Tee from our finca.
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