What would town halls do without armies of volunteers who give up their free time to protect and clean up the countryside, rivers and seabeds?

At least Órgiva Town Council is aware of the debt as they have publicly praised the work carried out by the Asociación Semillistas; a group that collaborates on reforestation and environmental regeneration efforts within the Sierra de Lújar.

For years, the association has worked on Mediterranean, eco-social, forest-restoration projects, using new methods for sowing with improved seeds out on the bare hills as an alternative to traditional tree planting.

One of their main projects is SiembraBosques (ForestSowing), which is a pilot initiative for forestry regeneration. It combines the forest recovery of the Sierra de Lújar with local participation.

The association’s team includes permaculturists, teachers, ecologists, artists, therapists, computer scientists, and social workers, so it’s a wide variety of volunteers.

Órgiva Councillor for the Environment, Leví Vicente Acosta, expressed his thanks for “the enormous work done by the Asociación Semillistas for the recovery task on the Sierra de Lújar, after so much was destroyed by a forest fire a few years ago.

The association has been hard at work at several locations within the Sierra de Lújar, including Cumbre, Olías, and Camino de los Mineros, seeding 7,800 trees and bushes across nine different species, over an area of 9.8 hectares: holm oaks, Portuguese oaks, mastic trees, Mediterranean buckthorns, carob trees, Aleppo pines, brooms, bolinas (sweet restharrow), and Cartagena cypresses. We’re talking about seeding 3,800 holm oaks so far this year.

(News: Orgiva, Alpujarra, Granada, Andalucia)

Keywords: Tree Seeding, Sierra de Lujar, Asociación Semillistas, Town Hall, Holm Oaks

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