After 10 years of experience, we believe that it is time to give more functionality to the cooperative spaces of La Sequoia and thus open them to the people and the world. Our intention is to create three shared workshops (one of bread, pastries and pizzas; a communal and catering kitchen; and one of canned ones), which are complemented by a shop-commodation space where to market the products of the workshop and the orchard, as well as products chosen with social, proximity and ecological criteria.
In addition, we will enable two free spaces where workshops and activities can be carried out in accordance with the values of the Sequoia.
The idea that the workshops are shared is to be able to accommodate and work opportunities more people, as well as optimize and the resources invested. We believe that sharing is a bet for the future.
We have been working for these 10 years in and for La Sequoia, a bit inward, despite doing some open activities. Making works, fixing spaces, testing the activities that we now want to consolidate. We need to take this step to take care of the people who also make it possible for this house and this social project to continue standing, we want all this work to bear fruit. Initially creating three jobs, one of leadership in the maintenance of spaces (interiors and exteriors), one of administration, communication and distribution, and one of leadership of the workshops.
General targets:
- To articulate a local network of agroecological consumption, mutual help and social reflection.
- Open the cooperative space with three shared workshops, the shop and the gastronomic space and two spaces of free competition.
Concrete targets:
1.1 Design and develop a participatory process to structure and launch new activities.
1.2 Disseminate the actions related to the project and encourage participation.
1.3 Promote meeting and debate spaces with actors from the local community.
1.4 Offer training sessions and exchange of experiences with related entities.
2.1 Technical project to be able to carry out the reform
2.2. Carry out the different actions derived from the technical project.
Once opened:
2.3 Maintain the outdoor and indoor spaces of the Sequoia to carry out the activities.
2.4 Manage shared workshops.
2.5 Manage the store, the gastronomic space
2.6. Manage the cooperative (entity)
The cooperative and community space of La Sequoia is very wide, beautiful and with great potential. One of the main motivations of the project is to fill it with life. We want the workshops to be spaces to make healthy products and to make workshops that can bring together diverse people with joint affinities. Same in free concurrence spaces. We want people like the commons to come, to eco-social change, to recover neighbourhood relations from where to share and collaborate. We believe that another eco-no-mya, an eco-si-nostra is possible.
Therefore, by collaborating with this project you help:
- Promote other types of access to housing and relationship with property.
- Share spaces, means of production, ideas and knowledge.
- Create jobs worthy of part-time work, compatible with self-care and the environment.
- Promote conscious consumption.
- Weave ties between people and projects for a future where life is at the centre.
This collection of money is part of a financing plan for 100% of the necessary works, with an approximate budget of 110.000 euros. There are several ways to collaborate, you can contribute to the project through Goteo, or being a collaborating entity or person.
Sequoia during these 10 years has been doing many of the things we now want to do in a more structured and economically viable way.
: Promoter team:
Anna Rovira Mateu
Environmental Sciences student, Monitor and Director of Leisure and Group Facilitator (Iiface), experience of creating consumer groups: I un rave! in the Barcelona expansion (informal group that spent 7 years jointly buying vegetables, fruit and elaborated) in the Ateneu de l’Eixample, management of a consumption group of the Solidarity Consumption Network Founder, baker and administrator of Sequoia. Mother of family. Working member of the Sequoia from June 2024.
Eduard Moreno Grabulós
Graduate in Anthropology, more than 20 years of participation in Ràdio Contrabanda, Founder and ideologist of Nautarkia and Sequoia, secondary school teacher, expert in creating games in a participatory way and amateur musician. Family father.
Angels Gardella Martínez
Graduate in Veterinary Medicine, with experience in a herd of sheep and goats, Founder and agroecological baker of Sequoia, Postgraduate student of nature and spirituality of the UdG, Environmental Educator at the High Ter Association and Guide of Dances of Universal Peace.
RacePablo
Training engineer, teacher by profession and ecosocial activist and entrepreneur. Technology as a tool, not as a solution or end object. Rurality or barbarism. When I escape the world, I do it in bicycle.
Elisa Camacho Castillo
Degree in French Philosophy and Master in Literary Translation. Working member of the La Roca SCCL restaurant (Lluçanès), vegetable and restaurant functions. Experience in work and group management, organic garden and bread workshop. Working partner of the Sequoia from June 2024, reference of the workshops.
Seif Fathi
Lover of life and slow rhythms. A member of the Sequoia since 2022, a leading person in the orchard, since April 2022. Family father. Working partner of Sequoia for the maintenance of interior and exterior of the Sequoia from June 2024.