You can learn at our Sierra Retreat how to take care of your land with the most effective practices. The Dehesa ecosystem is a full self maintained agriculture exploitation system we practice at the refuge in Andalucia. Come and we will share with you our organic techniques. Turf is King: The green lawn is no [...]
Organic farming is a modern style of farming and livestock production system whose main aim is to provide high – quality food, while trying to protect the environment, in respecting the biological cycle, and without using agricultural chemical treatment or genetically modified varieties. It is a way of fighting against the climate change, the exhaustion [...]
In the Tentudia region in the gardens in order to water the plants it was very common to find waterwells pushed with a donkey or a mule, turning around a well. Usually there was a young boy in charge of the animal to make sure that it didn´t stop turning. The mule had its eyes [...]
It comes from latin: trans, meaning “from the other side” and humus, meaning “soil”, “land”. It is a seasonal migration livestock, traversing from winter to summer “dehesas” (land from mediterrenean forest partly cleared of trees for graze pasture), and viceversa. Trashumancia therefore is defined as a type of moving shepherding, where, unlike nomadism, the places [...]
Finca Biensevive has recently submitted a collaboration with the prestigious Permaculture Research Institute of Australia. The following is the Questionnaire and its answers: Questionnaire for PRI project development. This document is a response to inquiries regarding PRI involvement in the establishment or development of permaculture projects, demonstration sites, and education centers. The answers help PRI [...]
The fertilizer used is logically manure and it is spread in March or April, when the second soil working is done (bina), so it does not go too deep into the soil and the plant profits from it. Manure is generally mixed, it is a combination of either chicken, sheep´s, pig´s (very strong) manure with [...]
Just one hour from Seville arriving to Tentudia region, Ranch Biensevive and its organized holiday walkings you will be overwhelmed by beautiful scenery but above all by countryside local knowledge. I call it “micro tourism” (to have access to local knowledge and experiences) Ranch Biensevive brings back to live traditional vegetable garden (huerta) agroecosystem. Most [...]
Walking In Tentudia region brings you back to traditional agriculture: it is very common in vegetable gardens to grow cereals and also raise pigs. It is a combined cultivation of vegetable, cereal and fruit trees with the raising of cows, goats and pigs. Mules and donkeys are very important for vegetable gardens (work the land, [...]
Organic/traditional vegetable garden (huerta) existing in Tentudia in the fifties had such specific characteristics that made it a very particular organic agro ecosystem. Today from spring to summer, we can fortunately still enjoy vegetable gardens while walking around Tentudia region. Unlike extensive land exploitation, as Dehesa, vegetable garden (huerto/a) has always been based on intensive [...]
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