Womankind

Sustainable living - going off grid

During her first yeas in Goizueta, a town of 700 in the mountains of Navarra, Spain, Maite Sánchez felt that she was being watched. She had come to the town with her three small children and the conviction that she could really do it: she could make her living from the land. It was a life she’d dreamt of living ever since she was a child growing up near San Sebastián, on the Basque coast, where her father was a nationalist revolutionary and her mother a radical feminist, where the family lived “between many political stories” at a time in the ’70s and ’80s, when the region experienced brutal domestic terrorism. She

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