Almenara Newsletter December 2025
Winter at Almenara: The Turning of the Year The rains that started in November have continued to fall through December and after the long summer months of cracked soil and dusty winds, the land is drinking again, and winter’s soft green is all around us. As the landscape shifts, so do we. This moment between years feels like a natural threshold: a pause to look back, […]
Article: Celebrating the Harvest and Reimagining the Yield
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Almenara Newsletter October 2025
Autumn at Almenara: Harvest and New Beginnings With the autumn equinox came our first light rains. Nights have cooled, humidity is rising, and Catalina exhales after the long, dry summer. Not only did we survive the heat — we thrived. The new syntropic lines have been bursting with abundance, gifting us a steady stream of summer […]
Almenara Newsletter July 2025
Summer at Almenara: Celebrations, Siestas and Syntropy This summer at Almenara has been full of celebration— the solstice, La Noche de San Juan, Pride, full moons, birthdays, arrivals and departures … each one a welcome invitation to dance into the night. With the midday heat in full force and many of us taking time for […]
Newsletter, May 2025
What a spring we’re having at Almenara this year! It’s May, and as we prepare for the summer, we continue to enjoy this remarkably long and glorious spring, fuelled by late rain and unusually cool weather. We’re fresh from the fourth edition of our Almenara Festival, which was a joyful celebration of community, creativity, and […]
Newsletter, April 2025
Spring has arrived at Almenara and it’s time to celebrate! With the record rains we’ve been having this year, spring is bringing a stunning show of flowers here in the valley of Catalina Pérez. The mallow and wild daisies are towering above us already as we walk through the fields. The glory of spring and this […]
Newsletter, February 2025
Almenara – Building a Regenerative Future… by Hand And we’re off! After years of dreaming, we’ve finally broken ground on our natural building course, guided by master builders Fermín Olalla and Ángel Arbo. Last Monday, we began constructing a Flexagon—a beautifully designed, earth-friendly structure that will soon become our new community living room. Using our hands, […]
Newsletter, January 2025
Almenara – Imagining a Regenerative Future Welcome to our second monthly newsletter! (Don’t worry, we’ll stop patting ourselves on the back after we’ve done 3 or 4.) Here at Catalina, the rains continue to fall, and the lush green landscape has become such an intense colour, that it is sometimes hard to believe it’s […]
Article: Repairing the Water Cycle and Promoting Solutions
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Almenara Festival 2024
The programme is ready and so are we – in fact we’re ready and raring to go!! Come and celebrate spring with us and join us as together we imagine a future that is regenerative. See the programme here Almenara Festival – 4 MAYO 2024 (in Spanish).
