Fuerteventura rural accommodation, Spain
How this holiday makes a difference
Environment
The house relies on solar power and wind power through photovoltaic panels and windmill. We use energy saving light bulbs, recycling waste using organic waste for the chickens and the rest is split and delivered for reuse or recycling. Water is a scarce resource so important in the rainy season to collect water in a pond and then store it in tanks. After using the water is recycled through a treatment plant and wastewater treatment lagoon system, with plants that revitalize using it later for watering plants and birds that visit the area.
We try to restock with native plants. In the winters of rain we have a small orchard from which we supply as the chickens that we have. 12 years ago we started doing a little stocking with native flora (wild olive, olive, white bugloss -Echium simple-, Kramb Sventenii, Jorgao- Asteriscos sericeus-.) Territorio Imaginario,IMAGINARY LAND is an initiative that was founded in 1998 as a place for discussion and development of ideas and projects about the impact of art in the landscape within a concept of utmost respect for the environment. I have been responsible over the years of experience to go forming an open territory engagement and artistic practice from the island of Fuerteventura.
In June 1999 I held a meeting in Fuerteventura Art and Nature to discuss and debate the artistic intervention in nature in addition to a participatory workshop. To this end they invited professionals from different points of view gave us their experience. We have the presence of Juan Varela, biologist and artist, a member of Artist for Nature Foundation (Netherlands). Tonia Requejo, Professor of Theory and History of Contemporary Art at the Faculty of Fine Arts from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Iraida Cano, Bachelor of Fine Arts and graduated in painting at St. Martin's School of Art in London, known for his studies of Mayan inscriptions and paintings of wildlife scenes, a specialist in plastic criteria are incorporated in projects of degraded areas.
Community
I've always been concerned about the loss of knowledge of the traditions, especially crafts. From very young I learned the traditional techniques of traditional Canarian pottery, I met teachers, now deceased, as Panchito on the island of Gran Canaria and Fuerteventura Eloisa Brito.
I have taught courses on the islands of Gran Canaria, Tenerife, Hierro and Fuerteventura, now as you rest in La Rosa del Taro, we suggest that you learn to work the traditional technique of the Canarian pottery. Is a process of Neolithic tradition, entirely by hand without around and cooking on high heat.
Rudimentary technical but of great ethnographic value. With your hands and the simple aid of stones on the beach (pebbles) pieces of wood and bone, you can build the tools that the natives of the islands made for everyday use.
Toffee, Tabajostes, Taguaos, Gánigos, etc are some of the names they called parts. Is a ceramic made by the process called the warping, consistent in the application and subsequent stretching rolls, churros or Columbian clay. There is also the technique of hollow, stretched a lump of clay.
The preparation of the ceramic is made from a mixture of different clays with degreaser (sand or volcanic ash). We also collaborate with Camilo Jose Cela University(Madrid) in a project to trap moisture in the soil to regenerate, but other applications would even provide drinking water to a home.
The moisture is captured through a device known popularly as atrapanubes. The project idea is to rebuild damaged by soil erosion using the flora of the area itself which, once recovered thanks to the moisture provided by atrapanubes would be responsible for anchoring itself land to erosion phenomena so common on the island and torrential rains.
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