Visits: 207
Rewarding urban offenders with a large increase in real estate value, and furthermore to have the Island Council public office help with these procedures, seems somewhat nonsensical and a provocation to those citizens who do things properly. Now is the time to analyse the problem of so-called vegetable gardens. Continue reading Association of large illegal houses
Visits: 145
On Sunday 21 January we will have the first excursion of 2024. It will be to the farm of Binissaida des Barrancons, which has a very old kitchen garden situated in a ravine in the municipality of Es Castell. This farm is part of the Land Stewardship Scheme.
Its main products are vegetables and eggs, produced by regenerative techniques and with organic certification. We will visit different parts of the farm and try its produce. Continue reading Excursion to a regenerative kitchen garden, Sunday 21 January
Visits: 160
Margarida Masferrer, linked with the medical world, is taking over from Carlos Coll as the President of GOB Menorca. The Assembly was opened with a deeply felt remembrance for the recent loss of Tòfol Mascaró, who has been Coordinator of the Island Association. Continue reading Margarida Masferrer, new president of a growing GOB
Visits: 145
Stopping the volume of the buildings being increased
The dispute driven by GOB against the enlargement of the hotels at Son Bou is going ahead gradually and not without difficulties because of the municipal response.
In 2017 Melià presented a project for a significant increase in size of the large hotels that exist on the front line of the Son Bou beach, buildings that have been the cause of one of the worst impacts made to the coastline of Menorca. Continue reading The Judicial process for Son Bou is advancing
Visits: 135
This Christmas you can give a special gift to friends, family or businesses with added value going far beyond our tables. On offer are our Christmas baskets filled with Land Stewardship Scheme products that are produced locally and sustainably. Cultivated in harmony with the environment, by local producers using sustainable agricultural practices and marketed at fair prices by farmers.
You can personalise the contents or chose from these three options: Continue reading Christmas baskets of Land Stewardship Scheme products
Visits: 158
Our last excursion will take place at the end of this week. It will be to the farm, Sant Joan de Binissaida, in the Es Castell municipality. This farm is part of the Land Stewardship Scheme. It produces olives and olive oil with an ecology certification. It will be possible to learn about the production process, the management of the farm and to have a tasting of its products. Continue reading Excursion to Sant Joan de Binissaida on Saturday 16 December
Visits: 161
The talks and debates (in Catalan), Menorca Adrift, continue their peregrination through the towns of the island. Next week they will be offered in three places. Continue reading Menorca Adrift in Es Castell, Es Mercadal and Ciutadella
Visits: 146
The Binigarba property is obliged to make restitution of all the illegal works carried out without licence on various areas. The City Council of Ciutadella communicated, seven months ago, the obligation for immediate restitution, but there has been no compliance with the deadlines. Continue reading Binigarba – the seven month wait
Visits: 133
Maria Tudurí Sintes has been designated, unanimously by the jury, the winner of the 2023 Pere Prats Prize for the Environment.
The jury considered that Maria Tudurí has all the qualities that deserve the award of the 2023 Pere Prats Prize for the Environment, based on her career, for being a woman of initiative, and an entrepreneur with drive that has known how to develop in a traditionally male world. Continue reading Maria Tudurí Sintes, winner of the Pere Prats Prize for the Environment
Visits: 155
For the fourth consecutive year, the sand on the beaches of Algaiarens and Son Bou will be analysed with the help of primary and secondary school students to try to determine the incidence of plastic waste on our coast. Continue reading Two Menorcan beaches are continuing under the magnifying glass of citizen science
