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Meeting in Romania

Craiova in October, Autumn Project Meeting After a lot of postponing due to the pandemic situation, we finally met in person! The German team from Trial & Error, the Romanian team from Dominou Association, and the Spanish one from EDUPLUS Association, Project management We worked hard on the project objectives, activities and outputs. The focus of this meeting was on our 2nd Intellec

Intergenerational Garden in Tenerife

Improving our Intergenerational Permaculture Garden in Tenerife with La Punta - Bajamar Avanzando: We are preparing new planting plots, and installing a greenhouse to protect an area from the hard Canarian sun. Using net and not plastic, to get shadow and fresh air. Talking about fresh air… we enjoy being allowed to breathe freely outside, respecting the distance of course! Teamwork: Our

September in Tenerife

Tenerife in September... Between meetings about the new coming Erasmus+ mobilities, we harvest and share our first, huge pumpkin! #FairShare Intergenerational Permaculture Garden in Tenerife with La Punta - Bajamar Avanzando

7th online project meeting

In summer, we keep up the good work On July 22 we had our 7th online project meeting, working on the redaction of our Educational Model and preparing the making of the Bite-Sized Learning Tools... These will allow anyone who wants it to organize some activities about community gardening and permaculture. Easy and fun. Coming soon!

Harvest veggies & smiles

Growing a community in Tenerife… Sharing experiences, learning from each other. More smiles, more social link, and always more fresh veggies! Intergenerational Permaculture Garden with La Punta - Bajamar Avanzando

6th online meeting

On May 28th, we held our 6th online meeting. We discussed ideas and next steps about the Educational Model, as well as our project meeting in Romania. The Growing Communities project is moving on!

Visiting a very special Permaculture Farm

The Association for the Development of Permaculture (ADP) is a long-standing partner of EDUPLUS Association. We often organize visits and training activities there, so that both foreign education staff and local people from Tenerife can learn from them. It all began in 1996 when the permaculture farm “El Mato Tinto” was created in Tenerife. For over 20 years, permaculture has been used as

5th online meeting

5th online meeting with our Growing Communities project. We discussed about the results of our international desk research and the next steps for creating the Training Model. Exploring the potential of Social Permaculture in community gardens... the final document will be a condensed of expertise and best practices, useful for any educator willing to implement some social permaculture principl

Planting in April

April is here and we keep creating together in our Intergenerational Permaculture Garden with La Punta - Bajamar Avanzando, Tenerife. We plant and mix lettuce, beetroot, aubergine, cabbage, cauliflower chard, sweet pepper, tomato, herbs, flowers… The more variety, the better!

4th online meeting

Another online meeting this week... Due to the COVID 19 pandemia we have to postpone our first face to face international meeting. But we keep collaborating online, working on our international research: permaculture, community gardens and work with disadvantaged adults in the 3 partner countries - Spain, Germany and Romania.

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