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Juntos Farm  Regenerative Practices and Localised Food Production in Eivissa2023-24



DATE: 2023–2024
STATUS: DELIVERED AND Published


LOCATION: Eivissa, Balearic Islands, Spain
CLIMATE ZONE: HOT SEMI-ARID
CLIMATE STRESSORS: drought; soil degradation; biodiversity loss

Commissioned by: Juntos Farm
Supported by: EIT Food (co-funded by the EU) 
In collaboration with: Balearic Islands Government; Jessica Dunlop; Vicent Palermet; Medsea Studio

OFR ROLE: Engagement Specialist; Research Lead
OFR WORK STRANDS: Groundwork; Strategic Systems Design; Capacity & Co-Design; RESEARCH & PUBLICATION

In 2023, OFR joined Juntos Farm with Jessica Dunlop as Community & Engagement Lead and Lead Writer for a six-month EIT Food-funded Proof of Concept study of the agricultural sector of Ibiza. Working with 784 participants across the island — from 94-year-old traditional farmers to Balearic Islands government officials — the project mapped the sector's landscape, history, barriers, and potential through interviews, roundtables, a major public open day, and participatory workshops. 

The resulting open-access report is the most comprehensive publicly available study of the island's food and farming system (published in three languages), and formed the foundation for Juntos Farm's infrastructure and community programming. OFR designed the engagement methodology, facilitated events, research and report-writing.

The ambition of this work was for its framework to travel beyond Eivissa as a research method other regions can adopt, and evidence of what grounded research puts in the hands of a community organising to advocate for itself.


Eivissa once fed 25,000 people from its own land, through a closed-cycle system of dry-stone terraces, crop rotation and Moorish irrigation channels. From the 1960s, tourism restructured the island's economy (it now accounts for 89.4% of revenue) and the farming culture that held that system together came apart. By 2023 the island grew enough food for five days of self-sufficiency; 25,000 hectares lay unfarmed; the average farm had shrunk to six hectares; terraced hillsides were reverting to pine forest; and the islanders who still held the pre-industrial knowledge of how to work the land were in their eighties and nineties, with no one to pass it to. 

As the land went out of use,  the community's relationship to it went too. A growing organic and regenerative farming community was rebuilding that relationship, but working in parallel, without shared infrastructure, a collective framework, or a voice in the institutions shaping the island's future. OFR joined Juntos Farm to map these conditions from the ground up, and designed the research methodology and ethics framework first, treating power imbalance, extractive research dynamics and reciprocity as design problems so that the evidence the sector needed would belong to the sector.

Over a year, OFR worked with 784 participants across the island, gathering evidence through 22 interviews, 18 one-to-one meetings, two producer roundtables and the first public open day at Juntos Farm. The participatory methodology built for that day (collective drawing, play-led data collection, community brainstorms) has run as Juntos Farm's engagement template in the two years since.  Fifteen analogue portraits of island farmers were shot and exhibited permanently. The project’s 135-page report, articulating the sector's eight structural barriers and its history into a single open-access evidence base, published in English, Spanish and Catalan. The report became the basis for Juntos Farm's masterplan and the design of its future infrastructure. It also seeded the framework for the Asociación Balear de Agricultura Regenerativa, Juntos’ cooperative.



Partner credit: Office for Repair, with Jessica Dunlop, for Juntos Farm. Funded by EIT Food and co-funded by the European Union.
Photography: Medsea Studio (2024)

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