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Mares Among Oaks
Villasur de Herreros, España
Channel
Livestock for a sovereign territory
Infrastructure
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Minimum | Optimum |
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Stable
Materials needed for the construction of the stable: wood, screws, sanitation, machinery and other related costs.
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$ 3,169 | |
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Fences and equipment
All fencing, gates, feeders, drinkers etc. needed to start the project.
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$ 2,957 | |
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Van
Van for the transport of animals
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$ 5,640 | |
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Fences and other equipment
In order to be able to continue acquiring fencing to protect the animals, as well as small machinery to facilitate the work.
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$ 9,270 |
Material
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Minimum | Optimum |
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Feeding
A first purchase of grass for the first arriving animals.
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$ 317 |
Task
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Minimum | Optimum |
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Mares and fillies
Acquisition of the first number of animals that will be the germ of the future herd.
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$ 6,337 | |
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Commissions
Website commissions
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$ 827 | |
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Commissions
Commissions and related costs
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$ 1,848 | |
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Acquisition of more animals
To be able to acquire more mares and fillies for our herd.
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$ 6,601 | |
| Total | $ 13,607 | $ 36,967 |
El Puchero is an initiative for the close and conscious supply of food from the vegetable gardens of Villasur de Herreros (Burgos), where we establish a direct relationship between production and consumption, which facilitates a deep understanding between both parties, as well as issues related to production and its impact on the territory.
With El Puchero we aim to reconnect people with the land through food, so that consumption has a positive impact on the territory and its inhabitants. In this way we manage to give life to land that is currently in disuse, to obtain healthy and local food and to provide a livelihood for people who live in rural areas.
For more than 8 years we have been working and recovering the historical vegetable gardens of the village, using agro-ecological and traditional methods as much as possible, minimising the use of machinery to the essential. Currently we distribute weekly baskets with seasonal vegetables to more than 60 members. But we want to go one step further, we are promoting a new extensive livestock project: Entre Robles.
Villasur de Herreros is located at the foot of the Sierra de la Demanda, at an altitude of over 1000 metres, with a cold and harsh climate. Although it is a very fertile plain, it is not possible to grow crops all year round. On the other hand, it is a territory with an ancestral tradition of livestock farming. Countless generations of farming families have been shaping the landscape and thanks to this we can enjoy thousands of centenary oak trees and extensive pastures. From El Puchero we want to recover that vocation. Today, these oak trees and pastures are in grave danger. The abandonment of almost the entire territory and villages, the scarce number of grazing livestock and speculative threats make our territory very fragile.
We are launching this equine livestock project with the following objectives:
A herd of mares, living freely in the bush, is the livestock option best suited to our circumstances, as it allows a better combination with horticultural work and can help us to reduce the use of machinery. It also helps to improve pastures and allows the incorporation of future animals and herds.
These years of work in the garden with El Puchero de Villasur and the contact with the members have been really positive. Different people, volunteers, neighbours and friends have been involved in the project, without whom this new project would not be possible, and we believe that the future of the rural world lies in the reencounter between livestock, agriculture and forestry. We believe that the future of the rural world lies in the reencounter between livestock farming, agriculture and forestry.
We address this project to all those who:
-Believe in agro-ecological and peasant models to recover a living rural world.
-Are sensitive to the environmental and human problems generated by macro-farms
-Believe that livestock farming is necessary to protect the land from corporate and industrial interests
-Defend the dignity of pastoralism and grazing livestock farming.
-Want to contribute to the recovery of our ancestral horse breeds.
-Know and love the world of the horse and the nature of mares in the wild.
-Recognise the diversity of uses and approaches that equine stockbreeding allows: human food, maintenance of pastures and forests, contribution to the fertility of agricultural soils, potential uses for transport and agricultural work.
All this with the utmost care for the animals and respect for their ethological patterns and the personality of each animal.
The team is made up of three people: Isa, Román and Víctor. We are three adults, but behind us we have families and three children. Previously, we participated in a cooperative project focused on organic bakery, founded in 2004. Then, for the last eight years we have been carrying out the work necessary to supply seasonal organic vegetables to families and groups in Burgos, a project we call El Puchero de Villasur.
We also carry out forestry work to supply firewood for homes, which helps to maintain the dehesas and use a nearby and sustainable energy resource.
We also participate in networks and initiatives of neighbourhood collaboration and defence of the territory against the threats that have been happening for decades according to the predominant interests of capital: unbridled urban planning, fracking, large infrastructures and motorways, macro wind farms and high voltage power lines, etc.
-Responsible production and consumption: the practice of agroecology to obtain local food with a positive impact on the territory and the communities that inhabit it, helping to avoid depopulation.
-Climate action: peasant lifestyles and agrarian economies have enabled a centuries-old balance between human communities and their environment. Small-scale local production helps to avoid the damage that industrialisation has caused to the environment.
-Life of terrestrial ecosystems: the "dehesa" (tradicional sylvopastoral system) and the native forest are the result and the basis of the balance of the interaction between humans and nature in our latitudes. Grazing livestock is central to this natural-human ecosystem.
-Decent work: we try to dignify peasant work and the settlement of young people on the basis of equality and mutual support.
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