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The Menorca Preservation Fund has agreed to help a series of initiatives that GOB is promoting for adapting farming activities to climate change. Continue reading An agreement with the Menorca Preservation Fund
Tag Archives: Water
Give presents of Menorcan fruit trees
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Es Viver, the garden centre of GOB, now has local variety fruit trees for sale. Christmas is a good time to give fruit trees and indigenous plants for our Mediterranean gardens, requiring little maintenance with respect for the environment. Continue reading Give presents of Menorcan fruit trees
Restore the potential of the Albufera des Grau
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Sending purified water to the lagoon, avoiding the use of lead shot, being able to feed carrion birds or leaving a part of the marine area for fishing only with creel, are some of the proposals that GOB has given recently for a Plan to Restore the Use and Management (Pla Rector d’Ús i Gestió (PRUG)) of the Albufera des Grau natural park. It will be a means of processing the management of a better relationship between human activities and a protected area. Continue reading Restore the potential of the Albufera des Grau
Come to the Agricultural Fair in Ferreries
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This Saturday, 8 July, Es Viver, the GOB garden centre, will be at the Ferreries Agricultural Fair in the Plaza España from 17.00 hours. We are hoping to be able to take part in the activities organised by APAEMA where there will be the sale of ecological products which are instigating the change towards sustainability. Continue reading Come to the Agricultural Fair in Ferreries
Up to our Necks
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Menorca has the luck to be able to foresee, to a large extent, its possible future taking into account what is happening to its neighbouring islands. Mallorca and Ibiza started the metamorphosis, and have suffered the consequences of an unlimited growth in tourism much more than has Menorca. With examples so close by it is not difficult to want to intervene where we possibly can and stop what could happen if we do not take steps. Continue reading Up to our Necks
Follow up on the proceedings against the use of irrigation systems in direct sunshine
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GOB has asked to be able to consult the files on the three irrigation systems which were reported officially this summer in Menorca. This initiative was to end the lack of control on the extraction of large quantities of water from the aquifer. Continue reading Follow up on the proceedings against the use of irrigation systems in direct sunshine
New renovation work starts on a water cistern
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On Sunday 10 October, a group of GOB volunteers were working to restore a water cistern which catches rain water in Torralbet. This is one of the farms forming part of a network each of which has signed up to the Land Stewardship Scheme. Continue reading New renovation work starts on a water cistern
Exhibition “Water in Menorca”
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There is an exhibition in the conference and exhibition hall of the Molí del Rei (GOB´s centre in Mahon on the Camí des Castell, 53) on Water in Menorca. This exhibition is made principally out of reused materials to give an explanation of the state of fresh water in Menorca. Continue reading Exhibition “Water in Menorca”
Time to plant up the kitchen garden
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Now is the time to plant seeds and plants for the kitchen garden. Es Viver, the nursery garden of GOB, has ecological plants for sale which are local varieties particularly adapted to the climate, needing less water, are stronger and less likely to become diseased, and are of the highest gastronomic quality. Continue reading Time to plant up the kitchen garden
Water requires funding from tourist taxes
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A considerable part of tourist taxes should go towards reducing the environmental effects resulting from massive tourism. Water is a subject which requires priority attention in Menorca. Continue reading Water requires funding from tourist taxes