“Ours has always been a family that is back from the garden,” explains Arrate Imaz, daughter of Amere Goikoa of Zubieta (Gipuzkoa). He is most responsible for the web that they have just created under the name of Loratu. However, it is clear that he and the new center of the network are part of the family working group. Who are the other members of the work team? Father and brother. “Before it was a website, my brother worked in the garden and the parents sold the products in the markets of San Sebastian.” Upon learning of the limitations this means of sale could have, Imaz realized that there was another possibility. And Loratu has come pulling that thread.
Open all day and everyone
At market times, just in the morning, a lot of people can't go shopping. Many foreign tourists travelling on the San Sebastian market also asked them for some other way to buy their products. “From there came the proposal to open the web,” Imaz tells us. They intend to distribute their products both in the Basque Country and outside its borders. With just one day of operation on the web, from Madrid it has already been received...
Each in its field
Although each of the family members works exclusively in their field, mutual support occurs involuntarily: “If the brother has to change the leeks, we go all the family to the garden. The same is true when the father needs help in the market.” The other sister of the family, without having a specific job in that chain, also collaborates in everything.
Asked by Loratu, Imaz says the word “project” is quite large: “The process has been a natural one, it has come out in an involuntary way. Each of us has gone step by step.” It recognizes, however, that the project character is gradually being assumed. We don't realize that often, from our daily activities, we can extract new ideas and flourish small projects.
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The Baserria XXI initiative, born in recent years, brings together baserritarras and workers from the primary sector who work in Gipuzkoa from agroecology. Seeing the need to weave relationships, the first job was to find and bring together people who worked the land in the... [+]
Twelve European and two African countries participate in the EAThink2015 project. As its name suggests, it is based on reflecting on what we eat, offering tools for elementary and high school schools. The project is managed by an NGO or other association in each country. In the... [+]
We cannot deny that the consumption of what small local producers offer us brings life to our valleys and villages. The cooperative Irati Produkzioak, located in Aezkoa (Navarra), was created to promote this path.
The cooperative has a local in Orbara. They have a bar and... [+]
The Karabeleko estate is located in Hernani (Gipuzkoa). Agifes (Association of Family and People with Mental Illness in Gipuzkoa), the Blasenea Ecological Seminar and the gardening and landscaping company Kimu Bat joined in 2014 to launch a non-profit project.
They research... [+]
In addition to a long cement track for aircraft, Noain has a large industrial area. Ten years ago, however, in that cement and veneer area, a green space began to grow that would provide fresh air to the village: Park of the Senses.
Each of the senses has its place.
The 25,000... [+]
The Arbel Cooperative (Aramaio baserritarras association formed by the acronym Arbel) is a partnership serving the baserritars of Aramaio (Álava) and surroundings. It has a long journey: Since it was founded by the town’s garrisons in 1982, it has continued to do so... [+]
“Direct exchanges of cerealists, cerealists, 2016”. The e-mail that bears that name has caught my attention as I was looking at the mailbox. I went into curiosear and found a table: buy/sell, product and variety, quantity…
EHKOlektiboa organised the second call for cereal... [+]
Lekeitio (Bizkaia) is known for being a fishing town: port, fishermen, beaches, tourists... On the other hand, Julian Arrate, a member of the Lekitto Bedarra group, explains that the link with the earth is also a very rich people: “In Lekeitio there has always been a great... [+]
He hardly thought that of the papillae that Miller Víctor García Torres made to his sons and daughters 30 years ago, an initiative came out that today is a solid project: Triticatum. Taking as its axis the recovery of the ancient varieties of wheat, on 21 April the talk El... [+]
“Today’s young people have no future in the primary sector.” In recent years we have heard similar phrases many times (and perhaps you also believed). Those who want the farmhouses, the small agriculture, the countryside... to be lost without ceasing, tell the young people... [+]
The first Sunday of each month is kept in the agendas of many people in Mungia and Busturia: The “Market of the first Sunday of the month in Arrieta” will be written on that page, surely. In fact, since August 2013, every month, local producers and surrounding neighbors... [+]