Ester Garriga: "I like capturing the landscape in a jar"
Ester Garriga is the beekeeper at Mels Cal Pastoret (Moià), a curious and active woman who has been raising bees and collecting honey for ten years. She works mainly in the forests of Moianès and Bages, but thanks to the transhumant hives she transports to the Pyrenees and other locations, she can follow the natural rhythm of the flowering seasons.
Interest in the world of bees entered Ester Garriga's life as a simple hobby when, a decade ago, she bought three hives from a colleague. Today, Ester manages twenty apiaries, each consisting of around twenty boxes. The thousands of bees she cares for have become the central focus of her professional dedication, an apicultural project that she combines with other agricultural jobs.
Glòria Roig is an agronomist and farmer who’s been cultivating organic aromatic herbs in the Lluçanès area for the last eight years. She’s recently expanded her activity to include hop growing. Combining farming with raising her three daughters has…
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L'Olivera, established in Vallbona de les Monges in 1974, is a cooperative for social integration in the rural environment. Since 2010, it has carried out part of its activity at Can Calopa de Dalt, an old farmhouse set within the Serra de…
Huertos in the Sky came into being with the mission of promoting the creation of rooftop vegetable gardens in the city of Barcelona. Its goals are to bring nature and healthy food closer to citizens, to foster active, connected communities, and to…
El Tros d’Ordal (The Ordal Patch), located in the county of Alt Penedès, came into being in 2012, when Àgueda Ortiz and David Casas created a small vegetable garden in the village of Ordal as a hobby. Soon, more people joined the project and, after…
Isabel Simó grew up in Ullastrell, in the county of Vallès Occidental, where together with her partner she now runs a community garden project in which a dozen other people are actively involved.
Ricard Huguet has been running L’Horta de les Casetes, a one-hectare organic vegetable garden in Sant Pere de Ribes (Garraf), for 12 years. The land is leased. Ricard owns two hectares of land in Cubelles but he can’t cultivate it at the moment due…
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