Community Garden
Growing food, knowledge and community together
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A garden is never just a place where food grows. It is also a place where people meet, exchange knowledge, learn from the seasons and discover what it means to care for something together.
The Community Garden ‘Es Jonquet’ is a shared space where people can grow food, experiment with agroecological practices and build relationships with the land and with one another. It brings together people with different backgrounds, levels of experience and reasons for wanting to grow.
Some come to learn how to grow their own vegetables. Others want to reconnect with the land, share their knowledge, meet their neighbours or become part of a more resilient local food system. The garden makes space for all of these motivations.
The garden in numbers
- 28people growing on their own plot
- 60+people involved
- 6partner organisations
- 14shared workdays
- 7training workshops
- 28local varieties grown
Growing with the seasons
We work with the rhythms of the Mediterranean climate, adapting what we grow and how we care for the soil throughout the year. From winter vegetables and spring planting to composting, water conservation and seed saving, the garden is an ongoing process of learning through practice.
Our approach is rooted in agroecology: building healthy soils, encouraging biodiversity, reducing external inputs and understanding the garden as part of a wider ecosystem.
We learn by doing, observing what works, sharing mistakes and adapting together. The garden is not about getting everything right, but about developing the knowledge and relationships that allow a place and a system to flourish over time.
More than individual plots
Individual growing spaces are part of the garden, but so is everything that happens between them. Shared workdays, conversations, collective tasks and informal exchanges create opportunities for knowledge to move between people.
We see the garden as a small experiment in how food production, community and ecological care can reinforce one another.
Voices from the garden
“For me, this project has been an opportunity to gain access to a piece of land in a place where this is becoming increasingly difficult, and to learn something new about the land and plants every day, discovering that growing food is an art in itself. But above all, it represents a way of working collectively, sharing knowledge and effort, that moves away from capitalist logic and the alienation of labour. It allows us to reconnect what we do, what we produce and the meaning of our collective effort.”
“I am very grateful to be part of the community gardens. Thanks to the good work of Àngel and Jule, and the good atmosphere among everyone, we learn and grow the land in a clean and sustainable way.”
“The community garden has been such a beautiful project for Deià. A genuinely heart-led project, which brought people together. We shared learning sessions and planting days, and together we helped bring vegetation back to the land. What looked like bare soil suddenly became a green haven. Along the way we made new friends, and knowing this little patch is now growing food that can feed a household feels so sweet and so needed. I’m deeply grateful to be part of it. Àngel and Jule lead these efforts so naturally, and now the garden is thriving because of their care, vision and dedication. The project is a true community spirit, supporting not only the land, but the people who gather around it.”
How to get involved
- Grow with us. Join the community garden, cultivate a plot where spaces are available, or find out how to become part of the growing community.
- Join a workday. Help prepare beds, sow seeds, plant vegetables, maintain shared areas or work on seasonal tasks.
- Share what you know. We welcome people who want to exchange skills, host workshops or experiment with different approaches to growing food.
- Support the garden. Contribute seeds, plants, tools, materials or resources that help maintain and develop the space.
Whether you are an experienced gardener or have never planted anything before, there is always something to learn and something to contribute.
Come grow with us.