Every Tuesday at 16:00
Please call to make a reservation and find out which department is giving their free guided tour this week! (tel: 00 34 950 525 770)
Further information
Communication and Education Department
General tour: Get to know more about the overall project.
The tour includes:
- Introduction to Sunseed: Our vision and mission, brief history of the organisation
- Introduction to each of the departments
- Tour of Sunseed’s facilities: vegetable gardens, community house, appropriate technology devices, tree nurseries, hydraulic ram pump
- Tour of Los Molinos del Río Aguas: history of the village and other projects in the area
Drylands Management and Revegetation Department
- Introduction to Sunseed: vision and mission, brief history of the organisation and the village of Los Molinos
- Environmental context: Karst en Yesos de Sorbas Natural Area. Biodiversity. How plants adapt to this semi-arid environment
- Revegetation in the gypsum environment: Challenges, techniques, use of traditional, low impact methods
- The “Arboretum” as an educational resource, research area and tree nursery
Former projects and recent practical case studies
Appropriate Technology Department
Tour will explain the use of AT devices installed at Sunseed, including:
- Solar Technology: hot water solar panel system, solar ovens, parabolic solar cooker, solar dryers
- Photovoltaic panels and energy control and storage devices
- Biomass cooker, and thermal mass stove in the main house
- Energy monitoring system and information display panel
- Hydraulic ram pump and Wind turbine
We use only ecological growing methods, which means we do not use chemical fertilizers and pesticides.
Seasonal crops
- Different irrigation techniques including traditional flood irrigation using our 400 year old irrigation channel, built by the Moors, and modern drip-irrigation systems
- Our soil fertility building methods e.g. composting, and liquid fertilisers made from local plants
- How we make a nutritious compost from human waste using compost toilets
Join us for lunch or dinner
Freshly prepared organic food with great company for only 5€ per person. Why not join us for vegan/vegetarian lunch (14h) or dinner (19h) to make the most of your visit?