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The trees ... They represent life, Fatima. You ask me the question due to the fact that you recognize the answer. I grow trees because I wish to regenerate nature. I joined Alveval 3 years back and every day I am much more and extra certain that I made the appropriate decision. Manuel is a retired agronomist. was really incorrect with the therapy of the soil. The landscapes below altered a great deal in the 1940s as well as 1950s. Mainly because it is an inadequate area. Mostly due to the fact that it is a poor area. Many individuals have emigrated. Generally to France, Germany, Catalonia, Valencia and also also Alicante. The region is completely depopulated. As much as the environment is worried, the distinction in regards to rainfall is very obvious. When I was young, I resided in Vélez Rubio and it snowed every year.And not simply when, more like 4 or 5. How did we get below? This is because the whole location has experienced deforestation. During the Spanish Civil Battle, people had to cut down trees for heat as well as to survive. Time later, there was a "" grain trend" "and oak trees were dropped to create arable land. In the European Union, roughly 40% of the land is devoted to agriculture. 18% of this land is currently influenced by erosion Due to poor agricultural methods such as industrial monocultures The major issue here is disintegration. When you fell trees on the mountainside, the water hurries down at an incredible speed.When the water states" I am coming down", nobody can quit it. The very first repercussion is the loss of soil. Let ' s claim that in this area, where the incline can go up to 21 %, when there is a tornado you can conveniently lose half a meter of soil. I can ' t keep in mind the precise'number. But when I was a trainee, I was told that cultivatable land takes, if I keep in mind properly, hundreds of years to create. Imagine losing all that topsoil in someday. The length of time do you assume we have to wait to be able to cultivate this land once more? I wear ' t understand if we can repair We ' re going to stop it.What we do is apply very basic regenerative methods.
It ' s pretty much just a matter of usual sense, you wear ' t need to be very certain in what you ' re doing. One more point we are doing is increasing biodiversity. On these hills we already find cistus, thyme, a great deal of rosemary ... however we are boosting biodiversity also a lot more. I failed to remember to point out one more extremely essential point. It ' s the manure. Every little thing we do, we make with garden compost. Garden compost just brings life back to the soil. If we examined this dirt, we would certainly see that it is succeeding in regards to phosphorus, potassium, nitrogen ... It is not totally poor. The primary issue is that it lacks natural matter-- it hardly ever has greater than 1%. To summarize: dirt, ground cover, variety and garden compost are the 4 most made use of methods. There are others, naturally, we have a booklet of 70 techniques of regenerative farming. Manuel just took on regenerative methods after years of experience and also observation. Today, Manuel aids Ecosia'' s tree planting companion in Spain, Alvelal, execute regenerative farming methods Manuel uses his memory as well as love of nature to instruct the regenerative technique to farmers and landowners bordering landowners.Young individuals-- and also even older individuals, as some people my age didn ' t recognize the location'at the time-- think the place has actually constantly resembled this. So they accept it. They merely approve it. Also my dad. When I started planting almond trees ... My dad died 14 years back, but he commonly said to me, "Manolo, it'' s land with almond trees, yet not almonds. As well as he was. Because the varieties we had grown in January. As well as in January it can conveniently be -6 ° C. We can be below zero until May. So it was typical for the almond trees to ice up. However by applying new strategies, brand-new ranges ... Ranges that begin to flower in March, we avoided one of the most unsafe period of frost, in February. Below, in 8-10 years, when the fad of almond trees began, we found that it rained more. And it'' s not downpour like before. To date, your Ecosia searches have helped plant 93,253 trees in Spain. These trees are grown near Manuel'' s house in La Muela.But Alveval likewise handles culture, tourism, every little thing ... For me, that'' s the most intriguing thing. Obviously, I'' m a farmer and I must state that'' s farming. But what interests me most about Alveval is that individuals can stay in the area. This is what delights me one of the most with Alveval. Individuals think their kids can expand up right here and be as pleased as they would be anywhere else in Spain or the world. It is a 20 year job. We won'' t see the rain returning tomorrow or the day after. I am 66 years of ages as well as I would love to be able to see it myself, in two decades, to understand if we did well. I am sure that we will certainly be successful, that there will be much more rainfall and that the environment will have changed a little. I grow trees due to the fact that I want to regenerate nature. During the Spanish Civil War, individuals had to cut down trees for heat and also to survive. When you dropped trees on the mountainside, the water hurries down at an extraordinary speed.When the water states" I am coming down", no one can stop it. Allow ' s say that in this area, where the slope can go up to 21 %, when there is a storm you can conveniently shed half a meter of dirt. It ' s the manure.
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