Appropriate Technology Department were working on the last step of the overhauling of our village’s precious: The Ram-Pump. After inspecting the pump several weeks ago, today the painting could be done by long-term volunteer Irina from Sibiria, Russia and Paco, coordinator of the AT department.
Another task was started today: The refurbishing of a mesh filter that prohibits small parts from entering the water system of Sunseed which is supplied by the Ram-Pump. In the picture below you can see Magued, our current intern in the AT department as well as Dicken, a short term volunteer. They are working together with Paco on a mesh filter renovation to keep the water supply of Sunseed working properly.
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Volunteers and staff members waiting for the start of the presentation.
Magued in traditional Arabic clothes.
Thank you Magued!
We are always happy when persons in Sunseed can give us input about their home cultures. There are people from all over the world visiting and working together with Sunseed and that creates an enriching learning experience. Therefor we were very grateful to take part in a seminar that was held yesterday by Magued from Yemen, our current intern in the Appropriate Technology Department. Amongst others he presented us a lot of information, facts and figures about culture, politics, dancing styles and pictures of traditional food. We all could learn a lot and took part in an interesting discussion after the presentation.
Biomass Gasification cookstoves Kaña!!!
Cheers!
Pako, AT coordinator.Hemos terminado el desarrollo de los prototipos de los hornillos de gasificación de biomasa. Hemos bautizado este proyecto como Kaña!!! en honor a la biomasa local, abundante y de uso sostenible que abunda a nuestro alrededor que estamos utilizando en los hornillos que hemos construido.
Este vídeo muestra el proceso de construcción de los hornillos, las pruebas finales, una presentación social en Los Molinos del Río Aguas (nuestro pequeño pueblo), y la preparación de una cena. Mmmmmmmm.
El siguiente paso es diseñar los futuros hornillos para la cocina de Sunseed. Este proyecto se desarrollará durante este verano. Estáis todos invitados a participar.
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Hornillos de gasificación de biomasa Kaña!!!
Saludos!
Pako, coordinador de Tecnología Apropiada en Sunseed.
We have finished the development of the biomass gasification cookstoves prototypes. We are calling this project Kaña!!! what is the name of the local biomass we are using to gasify in the portable cookstoves we have built.
This video shows the process of construction and final tests, a social presentation in Los Molinos del Río Aguas (our little town), and a real trial preparing a dinner. Mmmmm.
Next step is start the design of the future cookstoves for Sunseed’s kitchen. This project is going to be develop during this summer. All you are invited.
Watch the video in:
From Sunseed AT Marzo 2013 |
From Sunseed AT Marzo 2013 |
We can’t wait to taste them!
La naturaleza nos ofrece una gran variedad de productos para comer y Ana, nuestra coordinadora de Vida Sostenible, lo sabe bien. Por esto, ha preparado algo para picar hecho de la pita. Dos voluntarios (Clemens y Freyja) han ayudado en esta preparación y sabemos que será un éxito.
¡No podemos esperar para comerlos!
The food basket of nature has a huge variety of products and our Sustainable Living coordinator Ana knows it! For this reason today she prepared some delicious snacks made out of agave together with two volunteers (Clemens and Freyja).
Here Rosi, also an assistant in organic gardens is turning and adding moisture to another compost pile. After a while the organic matter can be added into the garden beds together with goat manure and to enrich the soil.
Crear compost es una medida eficaz para reciclar la basura organica. En las fotos que siguen, teneis ejemplos del trabajo en las huertas de Sunseed. Podeis ver a David, asistente del departamento de Huerta Ecologica, usando una tecnica tradicional para hacer compost que usa las ramas de los arboles podados para crear abono.
Aqui Rosi, otra asistente de Huerta Ecologica, está mezclando y añadiendo agua a otro sitio de compost. Después de un tiempo, la materia orgánica se puede añadir en las huertas con abono de cabra para enriquecer la tierra.
Composting is an efficient way of recycling for example natural waste. In the following pictures you have snapshots of today’s work in the gardens of Sunseed. You can see David, assistant of organic gardens department working on a traditional method of composting that is using branches from pruned trees to turn into mulch.
Sunseed News
As Sunseed is always looking for accommodations for Staff and Volunteers, Ecological Building Department is renovating the old laboratory which is no longer in use and preparing a nice new room in Isabella’s house. Como Sunseed siempre busca nuevos sitios para Voluntarios y Personal, el Departamento de Eco-Construccion esta renovando el viejo laboratorio, que ya no se usa, para preparar una nueva habitacion en Isabella.
Our best compliments for tiding up the workshop in Isabella’s!
Hoy Paco, nuestro coordinador de Tecnologia Apropriada, trabajando junto con Irina (una voluntaria desde Rusia, estaban remodelando y limpiando el taller en Isabella. Este trabajo ha producido nuevas estanterias que seran utiles para proyectos futuros.
Nuestros mejores congratulaciones por este trabajo.
Today Paco, the coordinator of the Appropriate Technology Department was working together with Irina, a volunteer from Russia. In the process of refurbishing and tiding up the workshop in Isabella’s house they were making new shelfs for future working projects.
sunseed@sunseed.org.uk with subject: slogan 1013!
We are in the process of deciding a slogan for Sunseed and we want our friends to participate! For this we would like to ask you to think of a slogan for Sunseed ( English and Spanish) and share it with us. Then we will select here at Sunseed what are the best slogans and offer them to everyone to vote. Out of the 3 slogans with more votes Sunseed team will choose one! Would you like to participate?
Put your slogan in our Facebook wall, twitter page or send us an email to Estamos decidiendo un slogan para Sunseed y nos gustaría que nuestros ami@os participaran. Por ello, os pedimos que penseis y compartais con nosotros posibles slogans para Sunseed en ingles y espanol. Después en Sunseed seleccionaremos los 10 esloganes que más nos gusten y lo ofreceremos a votación. Los 3 esloganes que tengan más votos serán revisados por el equipo de Sunseed en Los Molinos para elegir el eslogan ganador! Te apetece participar? Comparte tu idea en el muro del facebook, en twitter o mandanos un email a: sunseed@sunseed.org.uk con asunto: eslogan 2013.