Organic farming/ Sustainable living

We collaborate with a network of organic farms on the island and have our own small holding through which we grow our own foods  and experiment with different crops and fruits. Very big on potatoes!!  We supply volunteers onto the farms we work with together with funding and resources. We expect our volunteers to be fully engaged with planning and researching projects they work on and in learning from the experience.

Areas of Activity:
                 Maintaining vegetable , fruit and nut trees, small holding  chickens, goats etc
                 Researching and planning projects
                 Alternative technologies- harnessing energy etc.
                 Maintaining data on an experimental farm
                 Maintaining a seed library of Tenerife’s indigenous pants (600) and collaborating with seed
                   banks elsewhere
                 Protecting rare plant species
                 Writing blogs
                 Special projects: such as creating a sensory garden for visually disadvantaged individuals.
                 Maintaining herbs and an island rich herbal knowledge and folklore
                 Recording traditional farming and cooking methods, and food stuffs
                 Developing a range of ‘ethical’ products.
                 Developing educational programmes
                 Keeping Chickens, goats, bees etc
                 Animal therapy
                 Educational programmes
 
For further information, contact collaboration@asociationwhalefund.org

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