Aimee Fenech – Medium

3 days ago

Volunteering yay or nay?

It is often a discussion in our circles whether offering volunteering spaces on the farm is morally and ethically right. As the warm months are well and truly here, Anton has decided to leave for the UK for a few months, Tanya has also left to travel looking for cooler…

Farming

5 min read

Jun 22

Turning a blind eye to suffering

a not novel way of surviving an increasingly mad world As the news comes on, eyes are glued to the screen, there is no emotion on people’s faces though, food keeps being shoved into mouths as the plagues of the apocalypse one by one make an appearance in the faces…

Poverty

3 min read

Jun 14

Land Stewards Wanted

Balancing the tension between land stewardship and regenerative agriculture for a right livelihood — We are looking for a person or family to join us at Finca Verde. What / Where is Finca Verde? Finca Verde is a conventional farm transitioning into Organic farming status. Parts of the farm have been organic for over 3 years and other parts only since the end of last year. Most of the land…

Spain

3 min read

Jun 6

Watering season at Finca Verde

Soggy boot-sucking soil on one side and dusty dirt on the other. Moving through the terraces the green manure planted in April this year is in some places up to my elbows. — The little yellow flowers buzzing with pollinators and emerging purple flowers a splash of other in the mix. There are still some poppies left but most of them disappeared in May with the first heat wave. The irrigation system needs its filters cleaned at the end of each round of…

Water

5 min read

Jun 3

100 days at war…

It has been grueling, gruesome and exhausting. Every day since the first day the same messages on the refugee aid groups… “what is the status of the border crossing?” “can a man with children cross the border?” “evacuation for old / sick / marginalized needed” “long lists of aid items…

War

2 min read

Published in Modern Women

·May 30

Toxic Positivity & Manifestation Culture

A white able-bodied European woman posts a picture of a large swimming pool in Mauritius, the sun is shining and the sky is blue and the woman is obviously posting high on the delusion that the universe has magically manifested this from her positive thoughts. She claims we “all” attract…

Modern Women

2 min read

Toxic Positivity & Manifestation Culture

Published in Facilitating for Future

·May 30

Creating Networking Spaces at Online Conferences

Online events boomed during COVID lockdowns and many organisations found themselves on a steep learning curve. One of the most challenging aspects is not finding speakers who can happily turn up in the slippers and pjs with guest appearances from babies to the inquisitive pets — no. The most challenging…

Conference

2 min read

May 16

Melting Snow and Full Albercas

An alberca is a water deposit and as I write this water is gushing into it as it refills after a day of irrigating the farm terraces. From the kitchen window it sounds like a waterfall, the sounds of frogs and crickets a symphony with the rushing waters. Watering comes…

Farming

3 min read

May 10

Of work and the lack of it — more days at war

I am going to make this quick because I am busy translating resumes and CVs to Spanish. 20 Ukrainian women are on the list to find work in the area. We are based in Southern Spain in an inland town up the Alpujarra hills, Lanjaron. According to Statista: “Andalusia, has…

Ukraine

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Of work and the lack of it — more days at work

May 3

Of great neighbors and green manure

JL the farmer was not yet finished with the olive harvest despite having had plenty of warning and I was becoming desperate to get the seeds into the ground up against the end of March deadline. I had almost given up when the neighbor said that the tractor was out…

Farming

3 min read