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  • Greenheart Ibiza

    The Greenheart initiative is a project farm, supported by the non-profit Fundación por el Futuro, it encourages symbiotic relationships between cultural tradition, information technology and sustainable ecological development.
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  • Casita Verde

    Situated in a beautiful valley near the village of San Jose in Ibiza, La Casita Verde is a model ecological centre that is operated by volunteers and open to the public on Sundays.
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  • Greenheart Music

    GreenHeartMusic is a music platform based in Ibiza, Spain. Presenting artists of different influences who express their connections to nature through their music.
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  • Guía Verde a Ibiza y Formentera

    A bi-lingual directory to Ibiza and Formentera of local groups, businesses and services that offer or use environmentally friendly practices.
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  • QL Studio › Websites Made Easy

    Quinta Linda is a low-impact living space and website design studio based in Portugal.
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  • Greenheart Resonancia

    An educational and fun programme of practical, stimulating experiences discovering sustainable and respectful habits in order to face the realities of climate change.
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  • Green Ibiza Tours

    Our Green Ibiza Tours provide responsible tourism holidays in Ibiza offering a full programme of eco activities and nature happenings.
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  • Greenheart Travel

    With the aim of promoting the Greenheart message around the world, travelling members of the rapidly growing Greenheart family will write blogs and add photos of their travels.
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  • Ibiza Gold

    The Greenheart Carob project plans to rejuvenate an important traditional economic activity, as well as motivating many local land owners.

Back to work time

Well it's already more than half way through September, so it's got to be time to get out there and make things happen. It's now officially the autumn season and we've got a work list as long as both my arms together. The sun no longer threatens to burn your brain, so we can be outside all day if we have the energy to run around in the fileds and we wont run out of things to do for sure!

We've inherited yet another lovely volunteer student from the Earth university this year, so it's a real pleasure to be doing a few jobs around the palace gardens and enjoying the sunshine in good company. Erika the new student from Costa Rica is a smiley happy kid and always singing. She's helping out with all things that need doing, like composting and doing the Sunday lunch story but also has already learned to make nice bread and scones as well as natural soap and a variety of purses and bags etc from recycled materials. However, as she's really still at the university even though she'll be at Casita verde until almost Christmas, we've designed some serious working programme for her including assisting with the study project for school childrens visits due to begin in early October.

Apart from the placing of dedactic material all around the main centre, we're making a whole new garden area with local medicinal  plants and trees etc, all watered from the outlet of the solar shower and washing machine installation. This will show the whole process of gathering rain water from the forest, using it to wash ourselves and our clothes, then re-using it to grow useful plants.  Other jobs planned include the installation of a complete drip watering system for the Aloe fields and the competion of the waste water cleaning system supplying irrigation water from all points in the centre.

Danny law, our intrepid development manager has been busy drawing up lots of plans for improving the environmental information display and will be leading the effort to turn the place into a real education centre during the next few weeks. His first major job will be to turn the existing library buildig into the new 'Gaia centre', with a whole new look and utility for this nine year old reform.

Our Steffani is getting ready to open the market area for the winter season, so is busy moving everything around in there and decorating the place with natural elements. We also need to pick the rest of the carob crop and get it down to the local cooperative, so if anyone wants to come around on Thursdays and help us with the work, they'll be very welcome as there's no end of possibilities for energetic folk to come and join in the activities.

Meanwhile we do continue to visit the beach as often as possible and of course do our weekly candlelit dinner parties with various friends under the big carob tree, just to keep our noses in the party scene.

There's still time for some more

serious fun

for sure!