Category Archives: Sustainable Living News

Preparing snacks from agave

The food basket of nature has a huge variety of products and our Sustainable Living coordinator Ana knows it! For this reason today she prepared some delicious snacks made out of agave together with two volunteers (Clemens and Freyja).

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We can’t wait to taste them!

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Cooking orange marmalade (26th of April)

Exif_JPEG_PICTURERecipe 1:
10 bitter oranges
1 apple
1/2 kg sugar
cinamon
cardamon
a little bit of rum

Recipe 2:
10 bitter oranges
1 lemon
1/2 kg sugar
cinamon
ginger (1 small, fresh)
menth

40 minutes boiling before adding the sugar, 20 boiling after adding it.
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Seminar on how we can make natural toothpaste

Every Thursday in Sunseed there is an instructive seminar. Ana, the coordinator of sustainable living, and Fosca, one of our volunteers, showed us how to make toothpaste without using chemical or toxic ingredients.

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Ingredients (only raw natural materials collected from Sunseed’s gardens):

  • Olive oil
  • Clay
  • Infusion of wild herbs + salt (it makes your teeth whiter)

In this course we made toothpaste with infusions of mint, marigold and thyme, which have all beneficial principles.

Process:

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  1. Smash the clay up until you will obtain a fine dust
  2. Drain the water of the infusion to use, add the salt or bicarbonate. Then, you mix it with the clay to make a consistent mixture
  3. Add the olive oil. This prevents the toothpaste from becoming solid.

And that’s it!

Use the leftovers to make  a beauty mask!

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Yoga at Sunseed

Yoga classes 3 times weekly

tuesday, thursday, friday 6pm

with Mimi

The rhythm of the body,

the melody of the mind

and the harmony of the soul

create the symphony of life.

B. K. S. IYENGAR

                 

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Summer & Spring News SL 2011

 

SUMMER 2011
Make a nutrition plan for Sunseed diet.
Preserving summer fruits and vegetables.
Encourage the use of solar cookers creating the day of “no gas”
Seminar about sustainable living.
Welcome and guide tours for volunteers and visitors.
Renew the Sunseed cookbook
Create a kit of natural remedies damage and pains
Catering Sunseed courses
Preparing and organizing the 25 Sunseed anniversary

SPRING NEWS  2011
Make, preserve and keep a live sourdough for make bread without yeast and use the solar over for make bread.
Seminar about sustainable living
Guided tours for volunteers and visitors
Spanish lessons
Preserving spring fruits, vegetables and herbs.
Building new solar dryers before Summer
Renew the cushions covers on the living room benches
Decorate and improve the volunteers’ rooms
Use recycled and natural materials to make handcraft products
Make natural care products like aromatics oils, natural disinfectants for cleaning, experimenting making liquid soap, natural cosmetic products and teach how to use them.
Preparing the Open Day on 18th June.
Guide visit and workshop whit Roquetas de Mar High school

 

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