After studing Bioquemistry and Molecular Biology, I quit my thesis and did all kinds of odd jobs until settling for translation. I have participated in different activist movements since my teens, landing in the organic gardening world by means of my love for gardens in general. I discovered permaculture after realizing an organic communal vegetable garden I helped organize was not sustainable. In 2013 my wife and I bought a piece for land in the mountains near Madrid (Spain) and started a permaculture project there. Our objective is to produce all vegetables and proteins needed to feed our family, to produce nuts and fruit for sale and to offer affordable courses relating to permaculture. We have already held three Introduction to permaculture courses there. The land presents many challenges: a semiarid climate, huge day-night temperature differences and an eroded, dead soil are just some of them. To understand the land better, in 2015 I developped the Seasonal Sector Calendar, a tool that allows you to see how energies change in a place throughtout the year. I also participate in the Universidad Popular de Permacultura, a website offering affordable permaculture education in Spanish. As of August 2016, I feel a calling to move towards urban and social permaculture, and I am lauching La Permabunta, a permablitz organization for our area.