Garden

Garden

One of main aims of our association is to become selfsustainable community therefore to produce our own food too. Our garden is a basic for this aspiration.

We are blessed that on our little piece of the land we can find parts where fertile soil is up to 4 meters deep and that is really rare for Brač.  Brač is mostly made of stone, stone and a bit more stone.  For this much soil we can thank our location (above the canyon) and the people who made drywalls that stoped washing away soil with rain.

As far as seeds concerned, we are using only old (non GMO) seeds and those we get by exchange with eko communities and from old people. One of our aims in the future is to have old seed bank.

First we sow the seed in a small containers  and after it grows a bit we plant it in a garden. In garden we use our own vermicompost and ordinary compost. We use drop by drop irrigation system and rainwater collected in our watertank.

In wintertime we pick mostly broad beans and different kinds of salads and cabbages, and particulary we enjoy borecole, an old sort of cabbage that has specific taste and is very healthy.

During summertime our garden is full of different fruits and colours: various sorts of tomatoes and paprikas, eggplants, watermellons and mellons, salats and rest..

Summer is challenging time to save the garden from strong and constant sunlight. In order to succeed in this we are malching the plants and we constructed some shade makers.

One of our next projects is to create new and bigger garden using knowledge and experience that we now have.


Vrt

Jedan od vitalnih ciljeva naše udruge je postati samoodrživa zajednica i u skladu s tim proizvoditi vlastitu hranu. Vrt je, naravno, osnovni dio te težnje.

Na našem komadu zemlje na Braču, osim karakterističnog kamena posvuda ima i dio koji je idealan za vrt, plodna zemlja duboka na nekim mjestima i do 4 metra. To je na Braču prava rijetkost i veliki blagoslov.  To možemo zahvaliti blizini kanjona i ljudima koji su nekad davno napravili suhozide i tako osigurali zadržavanje zemlje na terenu.

Sjeme obično razmjenjujemo sa ostalim ekološki usmjerenim zajednicama i sa starijim ljudima iz okolnih sela jer nam je važno da koristimo samo staro sjeme (non GMO).  U budućnosti želimo imati i banku sjemena.

Sjeme prvo sijemo u manje posudice i pikiramo, a potom presađujemo u vrt. U vrtu koristimo naš glistinac kao gnojivo i naš napravljeni kompost. Sistem navodnjavanja kojim se služimo je kap na kap, a koristimo kišniku koju smo sakupili u gustirni.

Zimi iz vrta beremov većinom bob, salate i razne kupusnjače, a posebno je omiljena raštika, drevna sorta specifičnog okusa koja je jako zdrava.

Ljeti je vrt pak prepun raznih plodova i boja: razne sorte pomidora i paprika, balancane, lubenice i dinje, salate i ostalo.