Sin categoría - Semillistas

We are a land stewardship organisation

When we were at the Enraizarte Festival (Peñascosa) we went to a talk about Land Stewardship, where the integral cooperative Estraperlo talked about their project ‘Toma Tierra’ in the Sierra del Segura (Albacete).
It was really inspiring, so we have registered in the list of Land Stewardship associations,

Priming of seeds with stronger latencies

There is also extensive long-term work to be done to obtain methodologies for priming seeds with stronger dormancy, or even requiring a year of cold and heat, such as hawthorn and wild rose.
This way we could have varieties ready for germination in a couple of weeks instead of a year!

Improving pre-germinative treatments experiment

We have designed an experiment to improve pre-germinative treatments.
Usually the acorns are soaked for a couple of days, or cold stratification is done, but this must be done with sand, mixing the acorns in 3 times their volume in humid substrate at 4 degrees in refrigerators. In this way space is a problem.

Los Guajares two years after the fire

Although there is still soil loss, there is also a good regeneration (average) Some areas have more vegetation than others. There is still an area where nothing is growing, perhaps due to the soil being washed away by the sporadic rains.
The “resprouting” species (esparto grass, mastic, junipers, kermes oaks…) are growing well from the roots.

Taking part in Sulayr and Enraizarte

Last weekend we took part in several events with the Semillistas stand.

Lizzie, Audrey and Chloe were at the Sulayr Festival in Pampaneira.

Patri and Sergio were with the Semillistas stand at the Enraizarte permaculture festival in Peñascosa, Albacete.

Seeds, soil and rain erosion

We tell you more about the sowing we do in the Sierra de Los Guajares. At the end of January we sowed orthodox seeds (small seeds) of mastic, aladern, carob and broom. The success of these sowings has been scarce, only a few seedlings have come to life.