Winfred van den Bor Planting the Seeds of Sustainability: Creating Our Food Forest Oasis 1.5 years ago, we set foot on Gran Canaria with a dream that’s turned into a mission. Our goal? To transform our conventional farm into an ecological wonderland, complete with a thriving food forest. ... 13 Nov 2025
Winfred van den Bor Experimenting at Our Biological Farm: Navigating Farming in a New Climate Here on our finca, we’re on a mission to merge a food forest with an ecological farm. Within the lush canopy of our food forest, we nurture fruits, nuts, and perennial delights for the long haul. Mean... 13 Nov 2025
Winfred van den Bor The ‘we-need-to-do-it-all’ burnout We desperately needed a better balance in our life. To free up time to visit places around the island, to go out to the new restaurant in our village and to go to the beach or a museum. Therefore, thi... 13 Nov 2025
Winfred van den Bor Flowers, flowers, flowers Our finca came with a small plantation of Australian Waxflowers ( Chamelaucium ). These 1700 m2 of shrubs produces popular white and pink cut flowers from december till march. Unfortunately, the last ... 13 Nov 2025
Sjef Heijnen Finally residents! Since we moved to the island, we mostly had good experience with the government. We were lucky to run into friendly civil servants that helped us along the way. But sometimes… we ran into the infamous... 13 Nov 2025
Sjef Heijnen 130 trees planted in 1 year During the last 12 months we kept planting new trees and shrubs on our finca. We did not only add plants to terraces we already maintained, but we also recovered other terraces. In total we planted 17... 13 Nov 2025
Winfred van den Bor Update August 2025 Start Stuck in our cave house, we finally have the time to send you an update of our journey. The ongoing heatwave, that keeps Spain in its grip these days, forces us to stay indoors as much as possib... 13 Nov 2025
