December 20-25, 2024
Perception - Hinge
Harvest Festival
We imagined the Algı campus as a space where a harmonious, supportive and developmental relationship with nature and each other is possible. We wanted Yunus Emre's verses to guide us here:
I'm not here for the davi,
My work is for sevi.
A friend's home is the heart
I came to make hearts.
Campus Life
We enter our compound, which is 3 km inland from the asphalt, with a big car with 4×4 traction, especially if it has just rained and the soil is muddy. So, most probably one of us will pick you up from the beginning of the dirt road with such a car. In some cases, the road may be in conditions where even this car cannot go. So it would be great if you can be prepared to walk in the magnificent nature with your rubber boots and light backpack.
We opened our 2-storey main building on October 14-19, 2024 with the ’Be Yourself, Shine with Your Light‘ camp and then with the ’Harvest Festival‘ in December. We heat the building, which has a stone living room, a concrete second floor and a wooden floor covering, with stoves on both floors and wood collected from the farm land.
We have comforts such as dishwashers and washing machines in our compound, where we get domestic water from our own well and electricity from solar energy. Our only limitation is that we cannot use both at the same time. We obtain hot water by heating it in the stove. It is possible to take a bath with this water.
We have 3 toilets on our campus, one of which is outside. Two of the toilets work with an environmentally friendly system that we describe as dry toilets. The outside toilet is alaturka and flush.
Food Organization
We will shop for food and drinks. We will also prepare healthy snacks.
You can easily get the food you want from the farm kitchen. You can also support us by cooking and putting dishes in the machine.
We use our stove and oven for cooking. We also have a normal stove. If you have any special needs for groceries, please let us know in advance and we will prepare them.
Pre-packaged foods, alcohol and meat consumption are among the ones we do not prefer.
Festive Unity
- We will meet and make real heart-to-heart connections with each other.
- We will take care of ourselves, our needs and our safety by exhausting our bodies sufficiently, drinking enough water, eating good food and sleeping well.
- We will work and have fun together. We will share conversations, songs and folk songs while doing our work and resting.
- We will eat around the fire, play games, make music, use art materials.
- We will host those who come after us.
- We will pay special attention to children, animals and the elderly.
- We will collect wood, chop it or break it and carry it to the stoves and fireplaces.
Olive Harvest
We will pick the olives together: We will let them come down from the trees to the ground exhibition, and then we will put them in sacks or crates and collect them in a place where they can be easily loaded into a car or a tractor. I think we will prefer crates, because it prevents them from being crushed and preserves their quality better than sacks.
We will carry out cold pressing by taking it to the pressing area 1 or 2 times. The shorter the time between picking and pressing, the lower the acid content in the oil. Cold pressing also ensures that olives retain their beneficial properties.
We will present olive oil and St. John's wort oil prepared from the farm's own St. John's wort as a gift to those who contributed. Apart from that, you can buy cold pressed olive oil at a special discount.
Apart from olives, we will make jam or drying to preserve and use the quinces that we have just harvested.