Sustainable living

The Sustainable Living (SL) department co-ordinates the smooth running of Sunseed's low-impact lifestyle.

This includes overseeing shared cooking and cleaning duties, implementing the Sunseed Food Policy (to ensure an ethical, local, healthy and low-cost vegetarian diet), running extensive introductory tours of the project for new volunteers and helping them to settle in, organising accommodation and communal living spaces; and monitoring health and safety.

A team of folk helping with the Pomegranate harvest.

SL works closely with other Sunseed departments, for example with Organic Growing to ensure our fresh produce is widely used in the kitchen and that any excess is preserved; with Eco-Construction and Maintenance on accommodation and living space improvements; and with Appropriate Technology on solar cooking and other alternative food preparation techniques such as the haybox and solar dryers.

The SL Coordinator plays a central role in promoting low-impact, sustainable living in everyday life at Sunseed and in developing relationships with the wider local community.

Volunteering in the SL department can see you involved in tasks such as measuring the carbon output of a Sunseed stay, making cleaning products from ash from our clay oven, making chutneys with our local produce and many more.

It can also involve a bit of taste testing!

Whats going on in the next month?

July

Organising handover to new SL coordinator for August.

Making more natural toothpastes & deodorants to have a stall at eco-meets-ups & to sell in our shop.

Drying thyme, fennel and calendula to use for teas and natural products.

Working on educational leaflets.

Sustainable Living Coordinator

Sofia is a New Zealand/Argentinian who´s been thinking about a greener, slower, low impact lifestyle for ages and can now happily implement it more thoroughly. She also loves dancing on the beach and porridge - that is she likes porridge like people like chocolate!

This is Sofia on one of her quiet days!