To Do at Tribodar

  • Mark contour lines on the land

    In Permaculture, it is important to know how the contour lines of your land are situated. You use this when making swails, but also when opening ridges in the soil to allow for better water penetration.To draw the contour lines, we will try to...

  • Make a floor of compacted earth

     We will be making a floor in what will become our wood workshop. We want to avoid using concrete and so will experiment with compacted earth.

  • Finishing compost toilets

    We are making compost toilets. We are making 2 of them with 2 permanent recipients each. At the moment this structure is functioning, but it needs to be finished.

    The stares could be better

    We will make a roof with old hand made roof...

  • Build dog shed with green roof

    As we recently got a little puppy, and it has no real shelter yet, we are planning to make a dog shed in front of the house. As we want to start working with green roofs soon, we will use this technique for the shed, so we can get a first...

  • Make design for the permaculture garden at Tribodar Semente

    To be able to start working in a sensible way, we are starting to design our permaculture garden on the 0.75 ha piece of land at Tribodar Semente. We have held a collective design session on 6-7 March, where we have defined the main elements to...

  • Prune olive trees at Tribodar Terra

    We start pruning our long time abandoned olive trees. We will do a partial heavy pruning, eliminating some big branches of every tree. Part of the job will be cleaning up the pruning wood.

  • Set up composting system

    We will need to compost the compost toilet waste, as well as other waste. To do so, we want to set up a coherent composting system.

  • Repare roads

    The roads are in pretty bad condition. This is not really good for the cars passing. This is a simple job, but can be quite tough.

  • Plant hedge of Prickly pear (figue cactus)

    At the present moment Tribodar is fenced with fences from the owner of the sheep mowing the grass. As we plan on having animals in the near future, we will need to have our own fencing. Therefore we want to plant a prickly pear hedge, that will...