Xarxa Alimenta
Mission
Xarxa Alimenta encompasses many projects, all described by one word: regeneration. Our goal is to regenerate the Earth, starting from the soil, to create a better home for all of Earth's species, humans included. We do regenerative agriculture and community building, believing these two things to be inseparable.
Who Are We?
Xarxa Alimenta is a nonprofit community agroforestry association located in Natzaret and La Punta, Valencia. A self-organized all-volunteer group of locals and immigrants, our story is one of transformation. We have turned vacant farmland into burgeoning regenerative systems. We are a non-hierarchical association currently comprised of eight "Engine Team" members – these are the people who work to put things in motion – and many more associates of the Natzaret and Valencia community.
What Do We Need?
Your support! Our community has accomplished a lot with little, and we are outgrowing our capacity. We are focusing on growing our economic support, both through money and in-kind donations of equipment, to acquire electric power tools to keep up with the work our fields and forests require.
We learned about the BwB grant through the husband of one of our lead volunteers, Phillip Solomonson a.k.a Philamonjaro. A former Burning Man regional contact who participated in the first BwB Community Grant program with Christopher Breedlove years back. Whether funded or not, he assures us that BwB is a well suited organization for long-term ideas, inspiration, and networking.
As we prepare the BwB grant submission, we know this is not only a perfect fit, but plants (pun intended) the idea that we are farmers without borders.
Story
Natzaret Neighborhood Association
Xarxa Alimenta's partner and predecessor, the Natzaret Neighborhood Association, formed in 1976 as part of the fight against the forced urbanization of the area, and especially the construction of the Port of Valencia. The port was ultimately constructed, completely destroying Natzaret's beach, and the construction of a railroad through Natzaret's neighboring farmland, La Punta, split the neighborhood in half. Nonetheless, the association has continued to push for the good of the neighborhood and the integration of all the people living there. From it, Xarxa Alimenta was born.
Fent Camí
Fent Camí was an integration program created in response to the presence of several racialized Black immigrants living in an an unsafe abandoned building in La Punta. While the neighborhood association worked on safe housing and immigration documents for these migrants, Xarxa Alimenta, as Fent Camí at the time, worked with them to teach organic vegetable farming, which provided them with an income by selling CSA food boxes. This project has come to a close for the affirming reason that all of the participants have finished the course, acquired legal documents, and have full work rights in Spain.
Spaces & Projects
La Fifla
La Fifla is our field in front of a traditional Valencian barraca where our project first started and we continue to grow vegetables with no inputs other than horse manure.
Jardín Forestal
The Forest Garden is our community space designed with permaculture principles. Ceded to us by the local church association in 2022, this land bordering the railroad was abandoned for decades and used as a dump. Through community effort, we cleaned it up, dug a small pond, and planted dozens of fruit and shade trees, and we nourish the soil with the compost we make. We host cultural events and workshops here.
Sintropía En Corts
Syntropía En Corts is our newest agroforestry system, started in 2026 and still being planted. It is an example of syntropic agriculture, an agroforestry system that mimics natural forest succession. First come annual and then perennial vegetables, then fast growing bushes and trees, finally leading to long-lived climax fruit trees. At its climax, this system will have a rich, dark soil full of humus – carbon sequestered from the atmosphere.
Huerta Ikigai
Huerta Ikigai is our family-focused vegetable gardening and cooking group. Adults and children come together to learn about growing and cooking healthy food.
A Bike Revolution
A Bike Revolution is our cycling initiative, where we come together to travel by bicycle, joyfully voyaging with the bike as a primary mode of transportation. This initiative participates in Critical Mass rides in Valencia.
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