Virginia Peña: “I feel freer here than in any office”
Virginia Peña has spent eight years at the helm of Ramaderia El Cingle, an organically certified livestock farm in Vallcebre (Parc Regional del Prepirineu Català). We spoke with her to mark International Women's Day.
Virginia Peña has spent eight years at the helm of Ramaderia El Cingle, an organically certified livestock farm in Vallcebre (Berguedà). She raises forty-nine Limousin cows that graze freely across the mountain and sells a meat that is, above all else, a taste of the land.
We talk to the director of Can Serrat, a space for coexistence and co-working in an old renovated farmhouse in El Bruc.
The musician who led the rock band Gossos for many years invites us to discover Irehom, a shared workspace he co-founded in the Montserrat Rural Park.
This graduate in Education Sciences is the current manager of the Intercounty Socioeconomic Initiatives Consortium and the main promoter of Cowocat Rural, a cooperation project in which the 11 Local Action Groups of Catalonia participate.
The resident of Igualada holds a doctorate in biology and serves as the president of Eixarcolant, a cooperative entity working towards the recovery of traditional agricultural varieties and edible wild species.
We talked to the coordinator of the Central Catalonia Cooperative Athenaeum about the new associative models being promoted by the younger generation in rural areas.
Conxita Enrich is seeking someone to take over the 12 hectares she inherited from her family and believes the best option is through the Montserrat Rural Park Land Bank.
The president of Som Pastura and owner of a dairy goat farm in Moianès advocates for the return of herds to the forest in order to protect it.
This young graduate in Energy Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya is one of the first people to have signed a lease agreement thanks to the services of the Montserrat Rural Park Land Bank.
The head of the wildfire prevention strategy at the Barcelona Provincial Council talks about the importance of preserving the agroforestry mosaic to prevent forests from burning.
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