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Sol și Suflet

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About the Communities

  • Established
  • Romanian
  • Ecological
  • Rural

Founding year

  • 2020

What we do

Sol și Suflet is a project created by the Romanian Institute of Permaculture with the support of Kaufland Romania in 2020 and it’s based at the foot to the Subcarpathian hills, in the southern part of the country.
Our land is covering 6 hectares at the edge of a large forest and all of it is currently used for the production of vegetables in an organic regenerative system, hosting as well a residential and educational center for farm workers, volunteers and visitors.
The model we employ for our market garden is the community supported agriculture (CSA) and our production capacity is for about 300 families. We are delivering our fresh vegetables weekely to Bucharest, the capital and two other cities.
In the same time, we are researching new ways of growing organic vegetables, improving the quality of the soil and expanding the model of community supported market garden. We are educating young people who want to become farmers in extensive internship programs and we are year-round hosting volunteers from all over the world who are interested in knowing more about working with the land and producing their own food in a nature and climate positive way.
Sol și Suflet is a community of resident farm employees, interns and short to long term volunteers, numbering from 7 to 20 people, all involved in operating the farm processes.
Our mission is to perfect a model of small scale regenerative farm, educate farm managers and expand this system across the country as an alternative to the conventional horticultural practices, offering better quality food, cleaner soils and water bodies, more natural diversity and a better livelihood for farmers.

  • Purpose
  • Ecological
  • Languages
  • Romanian
  • English
  • French
  • Spanish
  • Community type
  • Land-Based Communities
  • Activities
  • Permaculture
  • Education

Commemorative dates

  • January 1, 2020
  • Started living together

Video

  • Open to new members
  • Open to visitors
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How to join

People waiting to join our community should have a strong interest and commitment to learn and become farmers, to be passionate about plants and wildlife, have experience with living outdoors and have a high level of self reliance. We value communication, building and repairing, cooking as well as scientific research skills.
Someone interested in joining our community is invited to do volunteering at the farm or better an internship to find out if this activity and setting is suitable for them.

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Location

  • Romania

Sol și Suflet

Promoted Needs and Offers

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5 years ago

EDE France 2021 | Écovillage Sainte Camelle

We had to wait 2021, against all odds, to see the very first French EDE. How come it was only the 1st? Why never before? Well, we know why. FHF. This is why making an EDE in France was a tough challenge to take on. And yes, we did it! The group of participants we had for this EDE was so diverse that no clan emerged. It is quite usual that people gather by affinity in small groups but here, the entire group stuck together no matter what. The glue was really strong. Some personalities were more extraverted of course, but with a real care for other’s presence and voice. To the extent to become a real counter-power: if we made any facilitation mistake, if we failed to propose in the most careful way and if it felt like we were imposing anything, we would be immediately in trouble. We knew it came from a childhood school trauma for these people, who were very open about it. It was an amazing journey to navigate the facilitation process with such awareness. This context led to something incredible during week two: a very quiet voice, Pauline, protested against the fact that they had agreed to community agreements on the first day but now, she said, they had to review them by themselves and check if it reflects who they really are. We, as EDE crew members, opened a space in the program for them to take the time to do it. They used Sociometry, a tool taught to them before, to assess the agreements. They counted in percentage who agreed or not for each topic. They even discussed about the structure of the program and finally approved it. It was a very beautiful real-life example of self-empowerment. One of the most iconic moment of this EDE was the Derdian roleplay in which they completely immersed themselves for three hours. The participants playing the indigenous Derdians went in the forest and created another set of social rules to add to the existing 10 social rules, making it even harder for the engineers to understand them. Howeve
  • Events
12 years ago

Curso de Permacultura

Curso Certificado de Diseño en Permacultura Del 8 al 26 de julio El Curso Certificado de Diseño en Permacultura de Can Bordoi, con 108 horas de teoría y práctica en casi tres semanas, es uno de los cursos más extensos que se imparten en la península – un aprendizaje de calidad, para descubrir, profundizar, experimentar y palpar la Permacultura con plenitud. La Permacultura, con su enfoque holístico, nos permite concebir y crear espacios sostenibles, productivos, bonitos, útiles y eficientes. La Permacultura es el diseño consciente de hábitats humanos productivos que tienen la diversidad, la estabilidad y la adaptabilidad de los ecosistemas naturales. Consiste en la integración armoniosa del paisaje y las personas, para proveer sus alimentos, su energía, su cobijo y otras necesidades materiales y no materiales de una manera sostenible. (Bill Mollison, co-creador del concepto de Permacultura) La Permacultura es allí donde un campo yermo se transforma en un bosque comestible, un huerto en una sinfonía de biodiversidad, una caja se convierte en horno solar, una ruina en una bioconstrucción de formas gráciles, una escala de vecinos en una comunidad intencional… Ven a aprender cómo diseñarlo y cómo hacerlo realidad en tu entorno. Durante los 17 días de curso aprenderemos los principios de la Permacultura, sus aplicaciones concretas, veremos cómo plantear el diseño y cómo desarrollarlo, tendremos tiempo para practicar en el huerto, para conocer varios proyectos de la comarca y aprender de los que ya tienen experiencia. Todo esto en el entorno privilegiado de Can Bordoi, una finca en plena naturaleza, con jardines y bosques, donde respirar, sentarse un rato, conversar, donde compartir música, y perfecta para liberar nuestra imaginación con un diseño permacultural. El curso se desarrollará en Llinars del Vallès, en una comarca donde proliferan las iniciativas y los proyectos, a apenas 45 minutos de Barcelona. Apúntate al CDP de Can Bordoi a p

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