Grupo Operativo OVINNOVA. Paco, with 42 years of experience in transhumance, a great shepherd, an outstanding personality and an excellent teacher in our project OVINNOVA is getting prepared for the trip to the north: Sheep bells, shepherd’s crooks…… That’s how the mountain meadows of León will receive him. ...
Grupo Operativo OVINNOVA. Preparations for the transhumance The preparations for the transhumance are benefitting from the incorporation of a young saddler from Monesterio (Extremadura, Carlos, who joined the project and is taking over the baton of now retired saddlers producing crafted spike collars for the guard dogs/mastiffs. Welcome to OVINNOVA, Carlos! The spike collars protect the guar...
Grupo Operativo OVINNOVA. Manuel Rodríguez Pascual writes in his book “La trashumancia, cultura, cañadas y viajes [5ª edición revisada y ampliada, pág. 251] about the bellwether: During the breed selection of the rams, the opportunity was taken to chose the bellwether - castrated rams that guided the herd; they were indispensable for the management o...
Grupo Operativo OVINNOVA. Partners of Fundación Monte Mediterráneo visit the mountain meadows to check the state of the huts, the grass growth, etc. ...
A little story not only about people, but also a food for thought concerning cracks and perfection, efficiency and culture, performance and esthetics, productivity and ethics…. Once upon a time an old woman in China had two large pots, one on each end of a pole. She carried the pole with the pots across her neck. One of the pots had a crack in it while the other pot was perfec...
Feel like reading or watching a video? Here are some options: new articles and a video in our gallery! Links: http://www.fundacionmontemediterraneo.com/img/upload/files/migrated/docs/jaras.pdf http://www.fundacionmontemediterraneo.com/img/upload/files/migrated/docs/agroforestal.pdf http://www.fundacionmontemediterraneo.com/es/p/galeria-de-videos#Video-1 ...
Let’s get going! The horticulture season has started! Organic seedlings for tomato, peppers, cucumber, melon, and, and, and…..which the cultivated soil receives with pleasure!
Emilio Zurano Muñoz (Pulpí, August, 10th, 1957 – Torre Pacheco, January 29th, 1943) Spanish writer, sociologist, lawyer and publicist. Born in Benzal, a hamlet of the village of Pulpí in the province of Almería; son of the husbandman Pedro Antonio Zurano and Beatríz Muñoz; in the first years worked as a shepherd from where ho got the nic...
The Project of the “Grupo Operativo” OVINNOVA held its first project meeting. The project pretends to design a business model to provide services in the livestock keeping of sheep and improve the competitivity in transhumance – itinerant flocks. The project partner come from the sheep sector as well as the upstream and downstream sectors. Coordinator: #FundacionMonteMediterran...
