APPROACH TO OUR ECOLDEA IKI-GAIA PROJECT

Hello family

How are you?

Thank you first of all for following your ❤️ in search of solutions and being interested in our project.

We pass you some basic information about the protocol of approach to our Eco village project. It is essential to have completed it in order to participate in any of the workshops we organize.

In this phase of the project we especially welcome people and families with a pioneering profile who are determined to commit to this way of life in coherence with their/our principles and who have some savings to contribute to the process of land acquisition and development of the key projects of the Healing Biotope.

If you feel called to get to know us more closely and have a lot to contribute to the co-creation of this life project, and IMPORTANT!!! you can make the move NOW!!! or join before the next two years, you are in luck because it is just the profile we are looking for!!!

1 STEP: interested in the eco-village in the short/medium term with savings:
Please fill out this survey so we can start to get to know each other by clicking here.

1 STEP interested in the ecovillage in the medium/long term or interested only in collaborating or participating in a project and without savings:
If you are more interested in collaborating and getting to know us, or you don’t  have financial solvency, or you can’t take the step before 2/3 years, you can also start the approach as a collaborator and get to know the human group and more about the project by working with us developing some area of the project (Gaia Free School, Permaculture Academy, Music Academy, Training and Events Circle, Crowdfunding and Financing Circle…).

For more information, see this post where you will find a survey for collaborators that you can fill out to initiate outreach and collaboration. You can also download it here.

1 STEP: social lenders and investors
If your idea is to approach us to invest some savings, undertake an activity aligned with the vision, create lines of collaboration and/or support us to materialize this great common dream of creating a new holistic model of society in a Biotope of Sanacción, welcome!

Hereyou can see more information about the participation models and economic conditionsfor social lenders. Write to us telling us about yourself and your process:

semilla@semillamontealegre.org

2 STEP: become a sympathising member

INTIMATE ONLINE MEETING AND PRESENT MEETINGS:
Once a month we offer intimate online meeting and face-to-face meetings to members (very limited places) where we answer questions and concerns and deepen our knowledge of both parties.

For those of you who want to know more details about the process and the timeline, the economic situation, the types of members and internal details about the project, we invite you to become a sympathising member of our association, as a 2nd step after filling out the survey above. Here you can see the advantages we offer you for becoming a member.

We recommend to start the process of approaching our Eco village project at least a few weeks before coming to meet us, to a meeting or to arrange a telephone/online appointment to come as informed as possible and to make the most of the time on both sides.

If you have already taken any of the steps listed in the protocol, please let us know in order to speed up the sending of the internal information.

 


STEPS TO BECOME A MEMBER:

1) The first document we need you to sign to get internal informations is the confidentiality agreement.

This project that we will share with you is the result of 10 years of travel and this protocol is a basic measure of self-care that we have established, especially due to the strong speculation that exists in this area of Malaga and because of the problems that have caused us to share our work so happily in the past.

Click here to download it.

We need you to sign the confidentiality document both adults of the couple, in case you have one, on all the pages. For the moment, a photo is enough, but we will need the original when you come to a meeting. What we expressly ask is that you do not talk about the exact place, nor the town where it is located, nor the size. You can speak openly about the vision and the ecovillage project in Malaga.

 

2) The second thing we need in order to share with you the extensive presentation of the project, as well as the models of participation, the timeline and the internal economic info, is that you formalize your registration as a member and send us a proof of payment of 50 €.. In this way, we can send you all the detailed information of our proposal so that you can feel it and study it calmly.

This membership fee of 50€/year allows us to cover all the administrative costs that are generated with the processes of approach / integration of new families, while putting in value the fruit of our work of 10 years, at least symbolically ?.

In the followinglink you can download the documents to become a member.

Here is the account number :

IBAN : ES78 2080 3834 1530 4004 3573
BIC/SWIFT code : CAGLESMMXXX
Beneficiary : Association Semilla Monte Alegre
Beneficiary Address : Cortijo puerto del sol, 29710, Malaga, Periana, ES
Concept :
Annual membership fee + first and last name

Joining our association will allow you, besides participating in some of our meetings and meet the project site and the pioneer group, to be informed of the news and progress of the project for 1 year, receive discounts on courses, events that we organize, participate in the Gaia Eco-Learning Community project, etc..

 

SaLUZ and thank you always

EDUCATIONAL SLOW TOUR

GAIA ECO-LEARNING COMMUNITY

  • For the whole family

    GAIA SLOW-TOURS: Friday excursions in a family and rural atmosphere full of unforgettable surprises for big, small and medium sized people. A wonderful opportunity to do slow rural tourism and, at the same time, to complement the education of your children in an environment of Nature, respect and sustainability that puts in value our patrimony, customs and traditions in a very amusing and original way.

  • Good for the environment

    This educational route of "slow tourism", with small groups and in a rural environment of the Axarquia of Malaga, is designed to generate the minimum impact between the community of people who inhabit it, and the Nature around them. In addition, all food and gifts offered to visitors are organically produced, vegan and as local and seasonal as possible.

  • Educational and environmental awareness tour

    Seeing, hearing, touching, smelling and feeling why certain practices collaborate to take care of the planet, while we take care of people, will be an unforgettable sensory experience that will help us understand why we have reached the state of declared climate emergency and reflect on what we can do to reverse the situation in our daily lives; at home, school, work, holidays, etc.

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GAIA-SLOW TOURS

Our exclusive program of excursions "GAIA-SLOW TOURS" consists of a weekly offer, always on Fridays, where the participants of our educational eco-community GAIA, both the children alone with our accompanists, or including their relatives, can enjoy a different educational day in rural environments - of explosive nature normally -, and where, in addition, the historical-landscape-cultural wealth of the municipality, and, especially, of the region of the Axarquía, is put in value.

Natural Parks, parks and botanical routes, centenary farms and estates, ecological plantations, edible forests, Permaculture projects, museums, beaches of the Maro cliffs, agro-ecology, livestock, mycology and sustainable beekeeping, are some examples of our proposals.

Due to the great acceptance and demand that exists on the part of tourists, foreign resident families, and Spanish families that want to complement the education of their children with a more outdoor educational proposal that puts in value the environmental education and in values, we have decided to open our program of excursions of Fridays also to visitors

SUMMARY OF A STANDARD ITINERARY

After a brief introduction about the educational day and the place that hosts it at the meeting point, the guide and coordinator of the Gaia Educational ECO-community, a renowned anthropologist, permaculturist and journalist from Malaga, will offer several sessions and charming walks accompanied, if necessary, by the owners or guardians of the place, immersing the visitor in the eco-experience carefully designed for that Friday. CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT WHERE THE NEXT PROPOSAL WILL BE!

The highlight of the day will undoubtedly be to share the impressions/reflections of the inspiring experience, tasting a vegan lunch or dinner with seasonal organic products in a circle.

SLOW TOUR DETAILS

Meeting point: Depends on the excursion

Meeting time: around 9:30 a.m. or 15 pm (depend on the proposal)

Dates available:

Every Friday of the 2021/22 school year

Languages: Spanish / English / German and /Italian. French possible too!!

Total duration: 5/6h

PRICES (include:  Logistics, materials, reserves and vegan organics meals.)

CHILDRENS:
-BETWEEN 3 AND 15 YEARS OLD: 30 €

ADULTS:
-NON-MEMBER of our Association :           20 €
-SEMILLA MONTE ALEGRE  MEMBERS: 15 €
-GAIA LEARNING ECOCOMMUNITY:         10 €

PROMOTION DAY:
Promotion day are always the 3rd Friday of the month. In that day the maximum are 16 participants. The price Includes organic vegan breakfast and lunch or dinner)

CHILDRENS:
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BETWEEN 3 AND 12 YEARS OLD: 20 €

ADULTS:
-NON-MEMBER ADULTS: 15 €
-MEMBERS: 10 €
-ADULT GAIA LEARNING ECOCOMMUNITY: 10 €

PRIVATE TOURS

Call us to see if we are availeble for private tours on weekend!!

Promotion for the 2021/22 school year of private educational tours on weekends: (from 6 children on)

CHILDRENS:
BETWEEN 3 AND 15 YEARS OLD: 35 €
NON-MEMBER ADULTS: 25 €

WE OFFER

Possibility to organize transportation to the space. Consult for more information

What it includes:

  1. Educational Slow-Tour with small groups of maximum 16 participants and many sensory experiences.
  2. GAIA Breakfast with tasting of fruits, products and wild/cultivated plants from the areas to be visited
  3. Vegan lunch
  4. A souvenir gift

Choose your best option!

  • View next tour

    Excursion to the Sierra de Periana next Friday, February 7th

    Children: 30

    Adults: 20

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  • Buy promotional tour!

    Promotional tour 3 Fridays of the month

    Children: 20 euros

    Adults: 15 euros

    Compra

  • Choose a date

    Private Weekend Tours

    Children: 35

    Adults: 25 euros

    Contact us for availability

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FEBRUARY'S PROMO GAIA SLOW-TOUR

Next Friday 14th of January we will visit a singular place of the Axarquia of Malaga in the surroundings of Periana near the mountains of Alhama - 1500 m- and Enmedio -1416 m.

During the visit, we will drink from pure water springs, eat nuts and pick up walnut seedlings, harvest wild plants and fruits and visit charming and historical villages of 1 inhabitant that are in the process of being depopulated.

After an energetic breakfast, we will get to know some very old cortijos and haciendas in the sierra where hundreds of sheep graze in a forest of basophilic oaks, gall oaks, oaks, musks, hawthorns, and bushes such as kermes oak and piornal.

Between the Sierra de Alhama and the Sierra de Gallo-Vilo we will go up winding on the road that goes up to Alfarnate to visit one of the most attractive places of its territory: the Puerto del Sol.

To end the day, we will have a picnic lunch at around 13:300h near the highest point and take an unforgettable walk around the sunny terraces near Puerto del Sol where hundreds of mountain goats, wild boars, rabbits, hares, foxes, etc. come down to drink from a natural spring every day. Spectacular sunny viewpoint protected from the north face by the mountains, from where you can see all of Axarquia and its spectacular Sierra de Tejeda and Almijara, Africa and the beyond...

On the way back, descending from the Sierra, we will visit one of the few remaining spas with sulphurous waters in the peninsula. These famous Baños de Vilo, came to be considered in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as one of the most important in Andalusia due to the important medicinal properties of its waters.

From the hamlet of Vilo to that of La Muela, we will pass through the nucleus of Guaro where the gentle slopes are covered with olive trees, pastures and cereals, and, where water is available, we will see varieties of fruit trees (especially peach trees) that are increasing as the orchards approach the banks of the river where orange and lemon trees abound, making this area one of the most productive.

CONTACT AND NETWORKS

 

Raquel Dominguez Segura
659109809
semilla@semillamontealegre.org

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