With the help of adoptions, we have already achieved the following milestones at our Campillo de Júlia:
Milestone | Status | Number of adoptions |
Purchase a small tractor and tools for the olive trees | Achieved (2020) | 1.000 |
Repair the sheep barn and horse stables | Achieved (2020) | 1.500 |
Repair the terraces and plant 2,200 new olive trees | Achieved (2021) | 2.200 |
Build compost facilities and install solar panels | Achieved (2022) | 5.000 |
Create biodiversity islands and ponds | Achieved (2023) | 7.000 |
Repair the 13th-century monastery | Achieved (2023) | 10.000 |
Repair the main irrigation pipe (3.5 km) | Achieved (2024) | 14.000 |
Replant 500 olive trees killed by drought | Achieved (2024) | 14.000 |
We added four donkeys to live with the other animals on the farm | Achieved (2024) | 14.500 |
Dig a well and install solar panels to obtain water in summer | Cancelled* | 15.000 |
Make plans and obtain permits to expand the irrigation pond | Achieved (2025) | 16.000 |
Birth of Máximo, an Asturcón horse, to join our herd | Achieved (2025) | 17.000 |
Purchase field cultivator to remove suckers from olive trees | Achieved (2025) | 18.000 |
Expand the irrigation pond | On hold | 25.000 |
Renovate irrigation facilities | On hold | 26.000 |
Begin construction of oil mill | On hold | 35.000 |
*Cancellation of well construction
We were unlucky in the prospecting studies carried out to drill a well. We made two boreholes and discovered water in the aquifers, but with an insufficient flow to guarantee the economic viability of the project. The flow rate was measured at a maximum of 3 litres per second, well below the minimum threshold of 25–30 litres per second required for the investment (around €150,000) to be economically viable.
The depth required to achieve a higher flow rate was disproportionate in economic terms in relation to the available agricultural land.