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Greenheart News - Summer 2025

It’s almost mid-summer and things are warming up on the island. However, after some timely rain in the early springtime, we had a massive growth of flowers and the Casita Verde became a real paradise, unlike last year when it was more like a desert.

My idea of growing so many plants in the gardens has several benefits, other than looking so beautiful. Actually, as plants eat carbon dioxide and give out oxygen, I must be getting a very high dose of this life-giving gas and will still be carbon negative, even if I burn dead wood from the forest all winter long to cook and to keep my house warm!

These days, I hardly ever go out in the car and use my electric bike whenever I don’t need to go too far, or carry anything big and heavy. We also exclusively use electricity from solar power whenever it's available and have bought only three bottles of butane gas since we closed our weekly events in 2019.

Personally, I much prefer to be off the grid and as self sufficient as possible, for both power and water, so apart from the 13 kw of solar panels and a small wind generator, we have also installed an 80 ton water tank, plus have a large eco pond in the garden, as well as several other water tanks and a 14 ton sisterna under the house, all of which fill up with rain water (when it rains that is!). 

We also eat from local markets as much as possible and store everything we make with seasonal fruit and vegetables in five large freezers.

Unfortunately, this kind of set-up is out of reach for the majority of the world's population, so although we could be seen as a beacon of environmental awareness, it’s crazy to imagine that everyone else could do the same.


If you can believe it, the British government is actually planning to use aerosol Geoengineering to block out the sun in England of all places (I don’t remember that there was ever too much sun in England when I was living there).

Meanwhile, they are still telling everyone to install solar panels and buy electric cars, in an effort to reduce their carbon footprint. I guess they have really lost the plot over there, or they have a plan to kill off their citizens!

Happily, we see that in places like Florida, they have actually banned the use of aerosol spraying, or any kind of deliberate Geoengineering practices which could alter the natural weather patterns.

Here in Ibiza, we still seem to be having at least one weekly dose of Chemtrails to decorate our skies and I understand that this is practically going on all over the world, wherever it's still allowed. Maybe soon it will be made illegal everywhere and we’ll be saved from all that chemical poison falling on us from the heavens.

Actually, I’ve recently joined a new WhatsApp group called ‘Ibiza Stands up’, which is mainly focused on the Chemtrail story, plus a few other disturbing ideas that will be served on us if we’re not careful and don’t make a concerted effort to stop them happening before it’s too late to do anything about it.

Anyone interested in the Chemtrail story should see the website www.geoengineeringwatch.org and watch the film ‘The Dimming’.


Casita Verde Ibiza

I don’t think I’ve ever seen the Casita verde in such good condition and with so many flowers as this year, so it’s been a real pleasure to be out in the gardens most days of the week, removing unwanted plants, pruning bushes, fixing the buildings and generally enjoying my job as caretaker.

Finally, we seem to have everything under control (if that’s the right word to use here!), so I have some free time to enjoy the creation, as well as work on interesting projects outside the centre.

Groups of people continue to visit the main Casita Verde, which has been open for tours for the whole autumn, winter and spring season, but we normally have only those interested in making their own self-sufficient home these days. This is what I actually wanted to happen, as I’m not too interested in entertaining tourists any more and prefer to use my time more efficiently, speaking to people who are going to use the information and inspiration they gain from doing the four hour tour with me.

If anyone reading this blog has a group of local students over the age of 12 years old, they can contact me to arrange a visit from the beginning of October until the end of May. If they are from local state senior schools, they are invited to visit without any donation, as part of our offer to the island.

I suppose that the recent black-out in Spain and Portugal has everyone a bit worried in case they are caught without power, water and food, so there seems to be some kind of ‘Homestead Revolution’ going on at the moment.


We continue to work together with Karin Isken from Ecovissa and Brian Reynolds from Standard Gas UK, on finding a suitable solution to the non-recyclable garbage on the island and are presently involved with other groups organised by the local government, who have invited us to be part of the solution.

At the same time, we are planning to make another bid for some very much needed European funding, which will be used for mostly educational projects around the whole garbage reduction and correct recycling theme. This we are doing together with some people from Rome University, as well as four other islands in the Mediterranean.

We tried to raise some money last year with the same team, but since we really didn’t have much to offer in the way of a suitable solution, we failed to score any cash. However, this time, we’ve got the Standard Gas SG100 to offer, plus some more exciting educational ideas to propose in return for the funding.

Of course, I continue to work with the Island Water Alliance as well as the new Zero Waste Alliance (see links to these websites below).

Apart from maintaining our three websites up to date (www.ibizafenix.org, www.casitaverde.com, www.greenheart-guide.com), we continue to add more recipes to our latest Casita Verde recipe guide ‘You are what you eat’, which is presently on a Google doc and maybe visited by anyone wishing to learn any new healthy recipes. All you need to do is to send us a message via the contact form and we’ll invite you to look at it. Also, if you have any good recipes to share with us, you are very welcome to send them to me and we can add them to the guide!


Casita Verde Granada

For the moment, the Granada Casita Verde remains closed for volunteers and visits, as the director will be working at the Juntos Farm project here in Ibiza until the beginning of November, when he will return home to take care of his olive and almond plantation.


Casita Verde Ireland

Joanna Sweeney, the owner of the Casita Verde centre in West Ireland, tells me that she’s had quite a few volunteers since the spring time and will receive more until it gets too cold to work outside at the end of the autumn. If you would like to go and help out there please get in touch with Joanna and organise a visit. (see the info on https://www.casitaverde.com/casita-verde-ireland)


If you would like to visit our centre for a guided tour during the cool season, organise a weekend conference about environmental subjects,, or want to know how you can be a more eco-conscious citizen, please get in touch by email, sending your request to info@casitaverde.com, or calling our main office on 608838190 (English and Spanish)

With warm greetings from Casita Verde,


Chris Dews – coordinator


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Videos Casita Verde Ibiza

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