{"id":5201,"date":"2020-11-12T18:48:01","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T17:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/labrugueradepubol.com\/?p=5201"},"modified":"2021-11-22T19:11:16","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T18:11:16","slug":"permaculture-practice-at-la-bruguera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/labrugueradepubol.com\/permaculture-practice-at-la-bruguera\/","title":{"rendered":"Permaculture Practice at La Bruguera"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our previous blog post<\/a> covered the philosophical journey we were sent on by the first lockdown here in Catalonia, and in this post we are going to get real, and tell you about how we intend to put our learning into permaculture practice at La Bruguera, and how we\u2019d even like you to get involved.<\/p>\n

Our Mike could probably have sat through all of lockdown reading pages and pages on permaculture, and experimenting with all sorts of eco-interventions out in the garden. Michelle, however, can spot philosophical doddling a mile away, and knows when it is time to turn ideas into action. So, she surprised Mike on his birthday in July 2020, with a place on a Permaculture Design Certificate course, in the Catalan Garrotxa, at Can Lliure<\/a>, under the tutelage of Roman Eisenkoebl and Martin Bastide, both fabulously experienced in regenerative agriculture, permaculture, organic farming and syntropic agroforestry.<\/p>\n

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This was Mike’s home for 15 days of the PDC course at Can Lliure.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Mike’s passengers on the road trip to Can Lliure were the godmothers and fathers of permaculture.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Being gifted the course was amazing enough \u2013 but the fact that it implied 15 days away, with Michelle managing La Bruguera<\/a> and its summer guests on her own, was a real show of belief in Permaculture and a belief in Mike, from Michelle. So off Mike went, with his gravel bike and his hammock, and lived up in the Garrotxa for two weeks, learning all about \u00ad\u00ad\u00adpatterns in nature, climate, trees and the forest system, water, soil, earthworks, aquaculture, food forests, funghi, alternative economies and cooperative social systems, and environmental justice.<\/p>\n

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It was hard not to be inspired and transformed, learning about ecological design in such a stunning open air classroom.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Mike took our existing masterplan to Can Lliure, to start drawing and documenting its “permaculture upgrade”.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ever since the course, which concluded at the beginning of September, we have been developing our Permaculture plan at La Bruguera. We were really lucky to have Roman and Martin from Can Lliure come and visit – spending a weekend at La Bruguera, walking the forest with us, observing, listening and absorbing, before kindly giving us their feedback, their ideas, and their answer to “if this place was yours what would you do?”<\/p>\n

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Of course we fed Roman (left) and Martin (second from left) from and in our garden when they visited.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Martin meeting the chickens, with Frances<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Even permaculture farmers need to chill sometimes…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In keeping with the cooperative, networked philosophy underpinning permaculture practice, we have opened the project up to a wider community too, since collaboration is humanity\u2019s \u201csuperpower hiding in plain sight\u201d, in the following ways:<\/p>\n