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Quinta Alma II

Ecological retreat with efficient resource management.
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What will you be financing?

This is Quinta Alma’s second GoParity campaign. In 2018 the promoter successfully raised 30.000€ through GoParity’s impact investment community, to create a structural lake and increase the project’s photovoltaic installed capacity. Check it out here – GoParity’s 9th campaign ever. Since then, Quinta Alma has grown considerably in business and activity, developing remarkable work in ecological regeneration.

In the last two years, the promoter successfully organized several experimental courses on the topics of Permaculture and Off-Grid Living in Mediterranean Landscapes. Carrying this experience, the promoter will now expand its business scope beyond B&B Tourism to include Educational Tourism, anchored in research, development, and promotion of Agroecology and Self-Sustainability. This new business brand will be called Alma Lab School: an outdoor experimental laboratory with an ecological taipa building to give classes and workshops.

Quinta Alma Lab School will offer recurrent courses and training on Permaculture, Sustainable Building & Construction, and Off-Grid Living & Farming. Alma Lab School will also lecture weekend courses on specific agroecology courses, such as natural cosmetics, fermentation and distillation of food, and beekeeping.

The funds raised through this campaign will be used to: 

  • Transform an old barn taipa building into a professional kitchen and a multi-purpose room.

  • Transform two canvas shelters into mountain wood cabins for winter courses (adding up to a total of four wood cabins).
  • Increase the installed energy production capacity by 50% in order to meet new energetic needs, related to the school and other events.
  • Increase water caption and retention capacity by 50%.
  • Create the structural business framework to hire a seasonal chef and a production assistant.

What is the impact?

Direct 

  • Increase of clean energy production: with the expansion of the solar energy production system, Quinta Alma will generate per year 21.4MWh of clean energy, avoiding the emission of 4.3 tons of CO2 into the atmosphere.
  • Soil regeneration and increase of biodiversity: Quinta Alma manages 45 hectares of land with an agroecological approach that drives soil regeneration with increased water quality and retention. This pushes the local biodiversity to thrive and become more resilient. In addition, one hectare is used for growing organic food without any chemical pesticides or fertilizers. 
  • Increased capacity in water management and retention: Quinta Alma will retain more than 100,000 liters of rainwater per year for human consumption and irrigation.

Indirect 

  • Job creation: as a result of this business expansion, 2 jobs will be created with working places for cooking and production management. 
  • Education for sustainability and regenerative economy: Alma Lab School will offer at least 6 structural courses and 12 weekend courses on an annual basis, educating more than 300 people per year for Agroecology and self-sustainability. Opening of social impact business area with potential to dialogue and influence as local, regional and national levels.

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Contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals

About the Promoter

About Adega Cooperativa Cantanhede

Direct 

  • Increase of clean energy production: with the expansion of the solar energy production system, Quinta Alma will generate per year 21.4MWh of clean energy, avoiding the emission of 4.3 tons of CO2 into the atmosphere.
  • Soil regeneration and increase of biodiversity: Quinta Alma manages 45 hectares of land with an agroecological approach that drives soil regeneration with increased water quality and retention. This pushes the local biodiversity to thrive and become more resilient. In addition, one hectare is used for growing organic food without any chemical pesticides or fertilizers. 
  • Increased capacity in water management and retention: Quinta Alma will retain more than 100,000 liters of rainwater per year for human consumption and irrigation.

Indirect 

  • Job creation: as a result of this business expansion, 2 jobs will be created with working places for cooking and production management. 
  • Education for sustainability and regenerative economy: Alma Lab School will offer at least 6 structural courses and 12 weekend courses on an annual basis, educating more than 300 people per year for Agroecology and self-sustainability. Opening of social impact business area with potential to dialogue and influence as local, regional and national levels.

Promoter website

https://quintaalma.com/

Team

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