Crowdfunding Goal
The huge impulse to give life to this project is our main reason for doing this work. What you are about to read next will come true, however it can be delayed 10 years because of the lack of enough resources we are experiencing right now. That being so, we are pretending to speed up the process with everyone’s economic aid.
Caótica Belleza is an Environmental and Cultural Association
Caótica Belleza, which literally means Chaotic Beauty, is an Environmental and Cultural Association. It is developed in a property of half hectare in a rural and natural context with severe environmental problems. Examples abound of deforestation, droughts, springs’ depletion or pollution by agrochemicals which combine in a speedy environmental degradation.
The project’s dream is to become a re-naturalisation and reforestation nucleus which, by means of being an example and of mutual learning with the rest of the local inhabitants, inspires a true change.
It has been two years since we started to devote ourselves to the creation of an ecological oasis, applying permaculture and agroecological principles. We have carried out small projects related to rainwater harvesting, grey water reuse, and reforestation. Each aspect of our activity is closely observed with the sole aim of benefiting all life around us.
Theory is not enough to convince people to apply other solutions towards a change, that is something we clearly see. Thereby, we implement all these methods here to prove their efficiency and its response to loads of today’s problems. Thereafter, once the design is completed and operational, along with the community’s validation of it, we will be able to carry out more ambitious actions in the surrounding area to repopulate this land with trees and animals.
Vision and projection
We are (in the process of) accelerating soil regeneration which holds all life and diversity. We will create a 100% organic garden of more than 1500 m2 which will be the project’s heart. The rest of the activities will be held here. We will locally serve quality and nutritive goods which provide vitality.
Our vision is to implement a reforestation project of indigenous forests, self-sufficiency systems and optimised spaces, giving birth to healthy forests where the syntropy which has always existed between humans and nature reborns.
Furthermore, we promote the creation of an economical model based on quality food production and Slow tourism to which we invite people from all over the world to dive into it. In this model, the creation of fair employment with a development and wellbeing sense to the local population is key. Our commitment is to share all the experiences and information with local people in order to learn and achieve a positive change and an environmental impact in the region together.
A reforestation movement is unthinkable without a clear foundation. We need to experiment, observe, fail and learn to go out there, do things right and impact others. Unless this is rooted inside us, we will not be able to go out, act and help correctly since good will is not enough to get things work.
Hence, this project requires certain resources (infrastructure, materials, tasks) to create the activity which will bring economic and labour freedom in its own entrepreneurship. Founding is needed to carry out the following projects:
Earth Project - Life’s Core 🌱
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Creation of a commercial vegetable garden and, indeed, organic and synthropic following permaculture and agroecology principles. The working area is about 1500 square metres. It is necessary to prepare, work the land, fertilise, mulch, and thousands of tasks to carry out the planting, harvesting and marketing activities. It will require the attention of 2 or 3 people working full time.
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Path for easy access to the land. Currently, it is uncultivated land, so it would be ideal to be able to enter with a vehicle to facilitate the work of the garden and the rest of the actions.
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Greenhouse for the colder months to be able to have enough food. We want to experiment with something small first and observe its results to possibly expand it in the future. It will also serve to carry out all the work on the seedlings and their care.
Water Project - What We Are 💧
- Refurbishment of 2 old reservoirs. Cleaning, construction and commissioning works are the tasks to get it.
- Tanks with a capacity of 200,000 litres. We have to study the best way to collate it, without impacting the soil, possibly dividing it into 2 tanks of 100,000 litres each.
Air Project - Vitality 💨
- Planting trees, hedges and bushes. We need to protect ourselves from the strong winds of Tarifa, so we need to delimit the boundaries with hundreds of trees that create windbreaks such as cypresses or shrubs and hedges such as latana, field peach, white chilca… As well as planting fruit trees.
Fire Project - Energy 🔥
- Energy autonomy. We need a small power plant with solar panels, batteries and the rest of the elements. At least we have to cover the energy requirements of the water pumps that move the water to the tanks, irrigation and other areas where it is needed. For all this work to be effective, this is indispensable, because without water we cannot maintain anything. Without it, there will be no fruit trees nor vegetable garden.
We are asking for support from all those who wish to contribute in a positive way to the conservation of the natural balance. We have created this campaign to unite the efforts of all people who want healthy forests with abundance in the world. We want to weave a network of families, men and women who care for the Earth. Let us learn to meet our needs without destroying, polluting, or abusing natural resources. We are dedicating our lives to this project; support us and become a member!
Aimed at all life, from the simplest to the most complex…Help me and I will have helped you.
Experience means that you tried, took risks and internalised the learning, not that you read a book or watched a video. The latter is very valuable to have an idea and basic notions, but if you don’t take action there is no experience, only beliefs; and a belief can be true or false. And that said :D our experience is action, but a super conscious action, not from knowing and see what comes out, but from NOT KNOWING because it is only there where thousands of possibilities are found, and it is also there where we find a clear vision to treat this Earth as it deserves, being caring and careful.
We are always looking to see what others have done and how we can implement it in our environment. We have a good network of friends who also have similar projects and an active search approach to favour nature.
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