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“I remember certain mornings when my grandpa would take me to his land, and what he transmitted, his love for his olives and his garden and specially for the land, right? He wanted to go back. My grandparents moved to the city for money and then with retirement they came back to the town. Then there’s a clear time in his life those 15 years he lived, were the best of his life, right? With his friends, in his hometown, with his Land there. As his grandchild I understood that, I could see he was good, he looked satisfied, it was like “not to be worried about anything”, not like “have to do…” but rather just do the ‘day by day’.”

“The bases of Xicoria are community, living in community, living together, collective economy, working together to fund our sustenance, maintaining the contact with society, working with that social network. These are the three axis, the production of baskets of organic vegetables from the garden, environmental education, and the itinerant kitchen. The three concepts complement each other and work harmoniously together.
We are opening a path in a new place and we have resources, so let’s use them. We have the capacity of socialization; we know how to set up a street market, we know how to organize a people’s dinner, we know how to organize concerts, conferences, poetry shows. So let’s play with that to be seen, to let them know we’re here: creating a space for dialogue.
At our stand in the market fair I was chatting with the elders and people in the street, people I normally just pass by. So here there is a space for dialogue. It’s a slow process, little by little, like an ant.”

“The small scale is what we’re looking for. We don’t need to have large extensions of land, and mortgages and tractors, because, well, it’s not what we want, right? We want to work differently, in a more human way, where there’s the personal contact. Making decisions together with the people thatare nearby and around me. Let’s try to make social change at a small scale, on human relationships, creating small networks, and I trust that this will become a seed. It’s not the first seed, there have been many others before. Continuously small initiatives and projects keep opening to change relationships, to create a better small world amongst us, that functions with norms and laws that we like, and we choose about social justice, about the environment, or whatever is needed, right? That I think is propagating.”