Hortus Cyrenaicus

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About the Communities

  • Established
  • English
  • Ecological
  • Rural

Founding year

  • 2021

What we do

From the first idea buying a “Château dans le Sud” to build an Ecovillage in the Greek Mountains, was “just a jump to the left – and then a step to the right…” End of 2021. Within a meditation session, there was suddenly a clear picture with the directive building a new “Arche Noah” for family, friends and similar minded people.
Finishing the talking and discussion round what mother earth and its children need and start implementing a vision, start doing positive actions for the nature and the people. What better place to start such kind of project than Greece, the cradle of Philosophie, Democracy and Humanitarian disciplines…
The name “Hortus Cyrenaicus” is related to Aristippos of Cyrene, a follower of Socrates who then built his own philosophical approach of “how to enjoy life”. There may have been misinterpretations that reflect on a hedonistic life style, but there could be also seen interpretations for living a “Happy Life” without existing “leadership” and unnecessary side impacts of “Civilisation” in harmony with the nature. This comes to the point: – A garden of a happy life… a place to enjoy life with family and friends in a clean and sustainable nature.
In 2025 we do have the goal to allocate residents for the 6 land plots (total about 1 ha land) who are interested to join the conception and who are ready to invest 40.000 Euro to compensate the costs of water and electricity preparations. As well as for the use of the land. These investments are scheduled to be used for expanding the territory of the Hortus Cyrenaicus for further residents in 2026 and 2027. The overall goal is to allocate 20 active residents in total taking over individual parts of the farm. Details will be agreed on individually with each resident.
We would be happy addressing this call to find potential active residents, Sponsors Donors and other supporters to bring the Hortus Cyrenaicus to an operational level, enabling us to contribute a little bit to the future of the planet.

  • Purpose
  • Ecological
  • Languages
  • English
  • German
  • Russian
  • Community type
  • Ecovillage
  • Land-Based Communities
  • Activities
  • Experiences

Commemorative dates

  • January 1, 2021
  • Started planning
  • January 1, 2022
  • Started living together
  • Open to new members
  • Open to visitors
Total
3

How to join

We are finishing now the complete electricity construction with 80 KW solar energy, 55 kw batteries, thermosolar heaters and a full water supply solar driven coming from 2 own licensed water drills. We have currently space for 6 families, couples or singles taking over an own piece of land and joining the community. We are not religious nor political oriented, but we are open for music, arts and cultural activities and do look first of all on the nature and the land to be in a good condition and to plant what we do need for living.
There is potential for new members taking over live stock, grains, vegetable production, bees, fish and many more things.

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  • Greece

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10 years ago

Seeds and seedlings exhange days

Seeds and seedlings exhange days Event program: -Announce starts: 01/03/2016 -Registration finish: 08/04/2016 -Location meetings: Location meetings will be held in several locations: KADIKOY : 09/04/2016 in Yeryuzu Association at 12:00-14:00 – Hasanpasa mah. Sogutlucesme Cad. No: 196/3 MERTER : 10/04/2016 in Karsi Kapi Association at 12:00-14:00 – Mete Sok. Baris Apt. B Blok No:8/6D TAKSIM : 16/04/2016 in Ek Bic Ye Ic at Gumussuyu Mahallesi, Inonu Cad. No 9/A, Beyoglu BOSTANCI : 17/04/2016 in Tohum Parki at 12:00-13:00 – 50 meter to the East direction from Bostanci Ferry Pier USKUDAR : 30/04/2016 in Kuzguncuk Bostani at 12:00-13:00 – Kuzguncuk LEVENT : 08/05/2016 in Kahve Dunyasi in Levent Carsi -12:00-13:00- Levent – Seeds and seedlings exhange day: 22/05/2016 in Yeryuzu Association at 12:00-14:00 – Hasanpasa mah. Sogutlucesme Cad. No: 196/3 Detailed info (Turkish): http://yeryuzudernegi.org/projedetay.php?id=51 Coordinators: SULE GONULSUZ sulegonulsuz@hotmail.com NURIYE KAYALI kayalinuriye@gmail.com We use local seeds and we provided those seeds from people who make organical farming. After we procure those seeds, we put them on a cycle. We organized “Seed Exchange Days”, where people could meet and exchange their seeds, their knowledge and experiences. We tried to take it one step further and we are trying to categorize the seeds. For example, -there is a bean seed. But which type of bean seed is it? Or we try to categorize the seeds according to their durabilty in which city they could grow. We believe that all the seeds in the World are people’s seeds and we want to share them with everyone.
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11 years ago

Ecotratamiento de Aguas Residuales

Agua es vida, el recurso más importante de todos. Desde la perspectiva de Sunseed como un centro educativo sobre la vida de bajo impacto nos gustaría ofrecerles un curso para aprender, profundizar e intercambiar los conocimientos teóricos y prácticos sobre el cuidado de agua. El curso va a estar enfocado principalmente en el tema de saneamiento ecológico de aguas residuales, cubriendo a la vez los aspectos teóricos de potabilización de agua y aprovechamiento de agua lluvia. Vamos a aprender como diseñar y construir un sistema completo de tratamiento de aguas grises a través de la construcción de humedales artificiales de flujo subsuperficial, en cuales se trata de la utilización de plantas acuáticas para depurar las aguas residuales que han tenido un tratamiento primario. Los humedales artificiales son canales de gravilla sembrados con las plantas depuradoras, han sido aplicadas y debidamente reguladas en varios países de Europa y ofrecen una alternativa sana y segura tanto para autogestionar los recursos de agua como poder reutilizar agua tratada en un hogar. Usando herramientas como power point, videos y charlas vamos a aprender sobre el diseño y aspectos claves para tener en cuenta construyendo nuestro sistema casero. En tiempo libre vamos a divertirnos con juegos, música y baños en una poza cercana. El curso va a estar dividido en partes teóricas y prácticas. La parte práctica va a incluir – Diseño de un sistema completo de tratamiento de aguas residuales – las tuberías, tratamiento primario (trampas de grasa y tanques sépticos), tratamiento secundario (Humedales Artificiales de Flujo Subsuperficial), riego con aguas grises. – Construcción de una trampa de grasa como el tratamiento primario – Preparación de un humedal artificial de flujo horizontal – impermeabilización y conexiones. Parte teórica va a cubrir la introducción a la potabilización de agua y aprovechamiento de agua lluvia. Para mejorar nuestra experiencia educativa vamos a definir los aspec

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