Sunseed Desert Technology

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We are a non-formal education project for the transition towards sustainability in Southern Spain.

At this lively international community, staff and volunteers work and learn together to develop, demonstrate, research and communicate alternative ways of having less impact and smaller environmental footprint.

08/10/2026

🙌 OPEN CALL FOR ESCs
Volunteering at Sunseed in an eco-project in the South of Spain (Los Molinos del Río Aguas, Sorbas)

🌱 Dreaming of a more eco-friendly life, off-grid and in community?

Come join the Sunseed team in our beautiful eco-project! We are an environmental non-formal education project. A self-managed and dynamic community, living and learning together.

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We use the sun for energy, the river for water, the gardens and landscape for food and we share our cooking and cleaning. Together we help develop, communicate and disseminate sustainable and resilient way of life in our environmental conditions - specifically in a semi-arid region and the only oasis in Europe!

🧑🏼‍🐰‍🧑🏾 We will host 2 ESCs (18-30 years old)
🌍 You must be a legal resident in an EU country
📅 6-month volunteering period
🏠 Accommodation and food covered
💶 180€ per month pocket money (+ travel funding)

The volunteering period is:
February 2027 - July 2027

- Link to apply in our bio -
The deadline for the application is November 15th 2026

29/09/2026

Before and after!

Over the past 40 years Sunseed has experienced many changes, new constructions and thousands of people working on the lands and houses. It’s beautiful to see how much nature flourished, trees grew to enormous sizes and flowers bloomed over the acequia. I think we can also all agree that our compost toilet looked a bit nicer when it was first built in 1993…

24/09/2026

¡Te estamos buscando! 🙌

🌱 Ven a vivir a un proyecto de educación no formal sobre vida sostenible en el sur de España. Somos una comunidad internacional que vive y trabaja a través de la experimentación y el aprendizaje conjunto.

🤝 Coordinar un departamento y organizar actividades con grupos
💡Necesaria experiencia y conocimiento previo sobre el departamento
🫶 Proactividad y motivación por enseñar y compartir tu conocimiento
🌍 Hablar inglés y español fluidamente

📆 Compromiso de un año
🕑 6 horas de trabajo al día
🥗 3 comidas diarias
🛠️ Materiales de trabajo
🛏️ Una habitación individual en una de nuestras casas
💶 Dinero de bolsillo mensual para compensar y sostener tu estancia y trabajo voluntario

Voz y actriz:
Rodaje y montaje:

11/09/2026

¡Celebramos 40 años de Sunseed! 🌞

Y queremos reunir a todos los antiguos miembros de Sunseed, amigos y colaboradores para disfrutar de una semana llena de talleres, visitas guiadas, actividades y cuentacuentos.

Nos encantaría escuchar vuestras historias y que conectéis con los miembros actuales que viven aquí. Serán cinco días para explorar la relacionalidad de la tierra y el agua, aprender a reducir el desperdicio de alimentos, disfrutar de juegos por las noches (¡y mucho más!), y todo culminará con una celebración de Halloween con un espacio creativo para crear máscaras y tal.

Tanto si fuiste voluntario, coordinador, project manager, formaste parte del ESC o desempeñaste cualquier otro papel durante las cuatro décadas que llevamos aquí, tenemos algunas plazas para que te quedes a pasar la noche.

Lamentablemente, no disponemos de espacio para que otras personas que no hayan formado parte oficialmente del proyecto más allá de esto se queden a pasar la noche, PERO te invitamos a que te unas a todas y cada una de las actividades que tendrán lugar esa semana. Anunciaremos nuestra programación en las próximas semanas, así que estad atentos a nuestro Instagram.

Para mostrar interés en venir (ya sea para pasar la noche o para visitaros durante los días de la semana del aniversario), podéis inscribir a través del enlace en nuestra bio.

¡Tenemos muchas ganas de daros la bienvenida de nuevo!

We are celebrating 40 years of Sunseed! 🌞

And we are calling all ex-Sunseeders, friends, collaborators and supporters for a week of workshops, tours, activities and storytelling! We would love to hear your stories and for you to connect with current members living here. It will be 5 days of exploring land and water relationality, learning to reduce food waste, evening games (and much more!) ending in a Halloween celebration with mask making and stories of creatures from the area.

Whether you were a volunteer, coordinator, project manager, came as an ESC or any other role we have had over the four decades we have been here - we have some spaces for you to come stay overnight.

Unfortunately, we do not have space for others who have not officially been part of the projec

19/08/2026

Something to slow you down…

Last weekend we experienced our first proper rainfall since 3 months with beautiful thunder and the music of desert winds. May our gardens flourish with those drops from heaven 💧

Video & sound recordings by:

13/08/2026

Solar Cooking workshop at Sunseed

Irene (workshop leader), Conchi (workshop co-leader) and Christoph (informed associate)

Irene and Conchi came and revived our solar cookers! They taught us the ins and outs of our models of solar ovens and through creating a meal together they taught us how to use them effectively and efficiently to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels.

Irene has been holding successful micro-labratories in solar cooking and community gardening for school children since 2018 through their project “The Expanded Garden” in Vienna, Austria. Once a year Irene ventures to Spain to join Conchi to host workshops on solar technologies during the summer months.

Our solar cookers had been dormant over the winter and after some tlc they began to shine and reflect the sun spectacularly, and we were able to cook an amazing meal in just a few hours!

Christoph designed some wooden blocks with nails in them to attach to our cookers so that we could be certain about the accuracy of their position facing the sun.

It is important that the pots and pans used are either black to absorb as much of the sun’s heat as possible, or transparent (glass) to refract and concentrate the heat. The trick is to get your lunch in the oven as early as possible! From when the sun starts shining the cookers start cooking, so we can’t waste a single minute of our precious sun if we want to eat at 14:00

We made: our weekly bread batch, cookies, escaveche and seasoned chickpeas!

We even made our own portable solar cookers with cardboard and aluminium foil thanks to Irene, so now we can cook on the road, too!

04/08/2026

We’re convinced that Ryan Gosling wants what we want: Sustainable living. Degrowth. Organic food. Community.

Tag him in the comments if you want him to join Sunseed.

Thanks Adeline for your outstanding acting skills .ad

13/07/2026

OUR NEW WEBSITE 💛

For almost two decades our old website has endured its long life on the internet. After many weeks of work, we are very excited to finally present to you this fresh and sexy look of Sunseed!

It is now easier for you to find infos - with lots of new and updated content - apply for positions and programs, contact the team and stay connected with us. I’m sure you will still find plenty of spelling mistakes and some mismatched alignments: take them as a free gift or even better, let us know so we can fix them!

We will soon add the Spanish language switch, our news blog, videos and documentaries that have been filmed about us, past projects of Sunseeders, more photos of the good old days and many more things! If you find that there is something missing, we’re happy for feedback, just send us a message.

The address is still the same, just a new look, enjoy!www.sunseed.org.uk

09/07/2026

MATANZA!

Once a year, a sublime event turns all of us into axe murderers - whether that’s getting even for someone taking the sacred last piece of bread at breakfast, slaying someone for mis-firing sociocratic hand gestures or punishing the next cook who serves kohlrabi for the 17th time.

But rest assured...thanks to the arresting insights of non violent communication, the “blood bath” photos only depict the delicious crime scene of the annual mulberry harvest!

Step 1: choose an outfit from our Free Shop that will be crimson in an instant, then arm yourself with a bucket and reach towards each branch, taking only the berries that surrender...despite the temptation to vigorously pluck. Guilty.

Alchemy now oozes in our communal kitchen - mulberry sodas and liquors, mulberry preserves and compote, mulberry cinnamon-spiced jam, mulberry pancakes, crumbles, cakes … and maybe a trial in the solar cooker for some berry leather, or a cheeky breakfast muffin.

01/06/2026

🪏👩‍🌾 In May our hands not only harvested plenty, but planted many new beings in our gardens. May they grow and flourish under the sweet summer sun that June will bring us.

🌾 Mustard harvest
May is when we get into the fields and harvest all the wonderful mustard out in the land. First we plucked the pods when the plants have dried. Then we carefully crunch the pods by wiggling them through our hands in order to separate the seeds from the pods. The seeds are cleaned from dirt and dust and soon we will be making fresh creamy mustard!

🍅 Mulching and Tomato planting
This month has been wild for our gardens team who put their strong arms to work for a massive mulching action. All the grass that was cut earlier this year to prevent fires from spreading in our village, has finally dried completely and can now be used as a nice mulch for our gardens. Our garden beds have been filled with many many tomato plants that are eagerly crawling their way up the caña sticks and rope structures.

💚 New biogas prototype
Following the first test of the biogas prototype, which had some errors, we have been investigating further into how to produce the biogas correctly and under what conditions: after a few weeks of research, Sara did not give up and was able to carry out the next prototype, which involves creating, on a smaller scale (with 4 w**e bottles), different mixtures of horse manure or a mixture of horse and chicken manure. In an insulated environment, Sara is now controlling the temperature with a sensor and an electric blanket to provide the energy needed to maintain the heat between 34 and 37 degrees, so that in approximately 14 days we can determine whether we have finally been able to produce biogas and with which mixture, in order to scale up the process.

⚡️Sara also worked a lot on fixing the electricity in one of our houses, connecting it to our batteries and making the lights shine bright again!

Dirección

Barriada Los Molinos Del Río Aguas
Sorbas
04270

Página web

http://www.sunseed.org.uk/

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