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Sunseed Desert Technology

Min.

Opt.

141%

Finished
10 / 05 / 2022

Funded!

Received

£ 7,067

Optimum

£ 14,958

Minimum

£ 4,986

157 Co-financiers

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Los Molinos del Río Aguas, Spain
- English
- Español

Finished 10 / 05 / 2022

Funded!

Received

£ 7,067

Minimum

£ 4,986

Optimum

£ 14,958

157 Co-financiers

Channel

Rural

Channel

Rural

Rewards

Contributing £ 4

Special thank you!

Your name will feature on our special thank you section of our website and on our Facebook page. You'll join the Sunseed saviour hall of fame!

> 13 Co-financiers
Contributing £ 12

Sunseed postcard with a heartfelt handwritten message

We'll send you a beautiful postcard with a personalised message and our undying love.

> 12 Co-financiers
Contributing £ 17

Grow a tree in the desert!

You'll have your own tree or shrub named after you in the new agroforestry garden that we've created in Diego III. We'll send you a picture and personalised message to thank you :)

Also, whenever you come to Sunseed in the future, you'll be able to visit your tree and know that it was thanks to your contribution that we could continue our work on Diego III, turning it into the productive and biodiverse syntropic agroforestry system that we know it can become!

> 31 Co-financiers
Contributing £ 21

Medicinal plants e-book (83 pages long)

This thoroughly-researched and beautifully illustrated e-book teaches you how to make your own natural first aid kit, as well as providing detailed information about how to identify, grow, harvest, dry and use 37 medicinal plants. All of these plants grow - or have been grown - in Sunseed's medicinal garden, but many of them are commonly found across Europe and other continents (for example mint, basil, rosemary, St John's wort, comfrey, nettle etc).

The e-book will be sent to you in PDF format (easily accessible on most devices).

> 25 Co-financiers
Contributing £ 25

Sunseed recipe e-book

For any ex-Sunseeders or past visitors of Sunseed who would love to recreate some of the amazing vegetarian food they ate here, from the homemade sourdough bread to the many different spreads and houmous varieties, as well as creative ways to use leftovers and seasonal vegetables.

This PDF e-book will include our current personal favourites, as well as recipes that have been passed down from previous generations of Sunseeders. Other useful tips like how to make homemade vinegar from citrus peels will also be in there!

> 17 Co-financiers
Contributing £ 29

Private yoga lesson at Sunseed with Rosa

Come to Sunseed and enjoy a 1.5 hour private yoga lesson with Rosa, one of our Sunseed core team who also happens to be a yoga teacher! The lesson will take place either in our dome, a cosy private space surrounded by nature, or outside depending on the weather. Feel free to bring one or two others along with you (maximum group size is 3 people).

Optional: for an additional €20, you can follow your yoga lesson with a 1-hour yoga nidra meditation offering by Billie (another of our qualified yoga teachers!) and afterwards share a nutritious vegetarian meal with us at Sunseed before going home.

> 03 Co-financiers
Contributing £ 83

'Immersive Sunseed Day' experience (to be planned in the month of April)

Spend the morning on a 2-hour foraging walk led by Silvia, learning how to identify edible wild plants in the nature surrounding Sunseed. Then bring your foraging harvest to a cooking workshop led by Silvia and Billie, learn the best vegetarian recipes using wild herbs, and eat your delicious foraged lunch together with the Sunseed community.

After lunch, join a guided tour of the Sunseed project, and learn all about our permaculture gardens and our off-grid systems.

Finally, end the day with a fungi workshop led by Ines, learning about the different fungi-related projects and experiments we are doing at Sunseed!

> 04 Co-financiers
Contributing £ 83

Sunseed box of food preserves and homemade, biodegradable cosmetic products

We will send you a box of products that we make ourselves: tinctures, natural toothpaste, deodorant, skin cream and ointment, as well as some of our food preserves, such as our jams and marmalades. We will also put in 5 Sunseed postcards.

We can post this box of goodies to anywhere within Spain.

> 03 Co-financiers
Contributing £ 166

Be our guest! (1 - 2 people)

Enjoy a two-night stay in a private room at Sunseed, with all your (organic and vegetarian) meals cooked for you. We would offer you a guided tour of our project and also a guided hike of the surrounding area if you would be interested, otherwise you are also very welcome to explore and enjoy the natural environment on your own as you wish. Take a swim in our beautiful natural pool (poza), rest in a hammock or explore abandoned, ancient villages like nearby El Tesoro.

This reward is for one or two people (if two, you would stay in the same room). Your stay with us would need to be before the end of June 2022, but otherwise we can be quite flexible about your preferred dates.

> 02 Co-financiers
Contributing £ 332

Free ticket to future Sunseed course of your choice

This reward gives one person a free ticket to a week-long course of their choice that will be held by Sunseed within 2022. We are currently planning to hold various courses before the end of this year.

> 00 Co-financiers

We reached 107% of our minimum goal!! Plus an update from Sunseed..

30 | 03 | 2022

Hi everyone,

We're thrilled to share that we have reached our minimum goal, which means that we can give the landowners (Diego's daughters) a deposit of more than 50% of the total land price for the Diego gardens and can enter into a payment plan with them. But we hope that our crowdfunding will keep up momentum in the next 11 days, because we still have €11,575 to go and every little helps!

In other news, something both good and bad has been happening here over the last couple of weeks: we have had an enormous amount of rainfall, which is very unusual in the semi-arid climate we're in. You can see from the photos how our normally still, tranquil poza (natural pool) was transformed into a raging, muddy river which swept away reed beds and topsoil!

The good news is that the water table has been topped up and our gardens and drylands have had a good soak; as many of you know, water is a precious resource here. The bad news is that we had many days without electricity or wifi (since we rely on solar power), so most of us couldn't work as normal and we're still catching up on a backlog of work, including this blog for example.. So due to this chaotic time we're in (we're still fixing roof leaks and other things), there will be a slight delay in sending out your rewards, but we aim to have everything sent out by the end of April. We just wanted you to know that we haven't forgotten you!

Sending love and gratitude from a weather-resilient group of Sunseeders ;)

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Rewards

Contributing £ 4

Special thank you!

Your name will feature on our special thank you section of our website and on our Facebook page. You'll join the Sunseed saviour hall of fame!

> 13 Co-financiers
Contributing £ 12

Sunseed postcard with a heartfelt handwritten message

We'll send you a beautiful postcard with a personalised message and our undying love.

> 12 Co-financiers
Contributing £ 17

Grow a tree in the desert!

You'll have your own tree or shrub named after you in the new agroforestry garden that we've created in Diego III. We'll send you a picture and personalised message to thank you :)

Also, whenever you come to Sunseed in the future, you'll be able to visit your tree and know that it was thanks to your contribution that we could continue our work on Diego III, turning it into the productive and biodiverse syntropic agroforestry system that we know it can become!

> 31 Co-financiers
Contributing £ 21

Medicinal plants e-book (83 pages long)

This thoroughly-researched and beautifully illustrated e-book teaches you how to make your own natural first aid kit, as well as providing detailed information about how to identify, grow, harvest, dry and use 37 medicinal plants. All of these plants grow - or have been grown - in Sunseed's medicinal garden, but many of them are commonly found across Europe and other continents (for example mint, basil, rosemary, St John's wort, comfrey, nettle etc).

The e-book will be sent to you in PDF format (easily accessible on most devices).

> 25 Co-financiers
Contributing £ 25

Sunseed recipe e-book

For any ex-Sunseeders or past visitors of Sunseed who would love to recreate some of the amazing vegetarian food they ate here, from the homemade sourdough bread to the many different spreads and houmous varieties, as well as creative ways to use leftovers and seasonal vegetables.

This PDF e-book will include our current personal favourites, as well as recipes that have been passed down from previous generations of Sunseeders. Other useful tips like how to make homemade vinegar from citrus peels will also be in there!

> 17 Co-financiers
Contributing £ 29

Private yoga lesson at Sunseed with Rosa

Come to Sunseed and enjoy a 1.5 hour private yoga lesson with Rosa, one of our Sunseed core team who also happens to be a yoga teacher! The lesson will take place either in our dome, a cosy private space surrounded by nature, or outside depending on the weather. Feel free to bring one or two others along with you (maximum group size is 3 people).

Optional: for an additional €20, you can follow your yoga lesson with a 1-hour yoga nidra meditation offering by Billie (another of our qualified yoga teachers!) and afterwards share a nutritious vegetarian meal with us at Sunseed before going home.

> 03 Co-financiers
Contributing £ 83

'Immersive Sunseed Day' experience (to be planned in the month of April)

Spend the morning on a 2-hour foraging walk led by Silvia, learning how to identify edible wild plants in the nature surrounding Sunseed. Then bring your foraging harvest to a cooking workshop led by Silvia and Billie, learn the best vegetarian recipes using wild herbs, and eat your delicious foraged lunch together with the Sunseed community.

After lunch, join a guided tour of the Sunseed project, and learn all about our permaculture gardens and our off-grid systems.

Finally, end the day with a fungi workshop led by Ines, learning about the different fungi-related projects and experiments we are doing at Sunseed!

> 04 Co-financiers
Contributing £ 83

Sunseed box of food preserves and homemade, biodegradable cosmetic products

We will send you a box of products that we make ourselves: tinctures, natural toothpaste, deodorant, skin cream and ointment, as well as some of our food preserves, such as our jams and marmalades. We will also put in 5 Sunseed postcards.

We can post this box of goodies to anywhere within Spain.

> 03 Co-financiers
Contributing £ 166

Be our guest! (1 - 2 people)

Enjoy a two-night stay in a private room at Sunseed, with all your (organic and vegetarian) meals cooked for you. We would offer you a guided tour of our project and also a guided hike of the surrounding area if you would be interested, otherwise you are also very welcome to explore and enjoy the natural environment on your own as you wish. Take a swim in our beautiful natural pool (poza), rest in a hammock or explore abandoned, ancient villages like nearby El Tesoro.

This reward is for one or two people (if two, you would stay in the same room). Your stay with us would need to be before the end of June 2022, but otherwise we can be quite flexible about your preferred dates.

> 02 Co-financiers
Contributing £ 332

Free ticket to future Sunseed course of your choice

This reward gives one person a free ticket to a week-long course of their choice that will be held by Sunseed within 2022. We are currently planning to hold various courses before the end of this year.

> 00 Co-financiers