The school canteen as customer: how El Hierro buys organic from its own farms
Gáldar, on Gran Canaria, spends four days from Thursday talking about farming. The most concrete case study in the programme, though, sits on another island and fits in a school kitchen. The CEIP Valverde on El Hierro prepares 276 meals every day. They feed its 270 infant and primary pupils and the pupils of four […]
How does a surgeon rehearse on tissue that doesn’t exist yet? One answer starts at ULPGC
How do you learn to operate on tissue that doesn’t exist yet, the tissue of a patient arriving next week? One answer, on Gran Canaria, comes from a small company born in a university lab. Gradual Research S.L. comes out of the Integrated and Advanced Manufacturing research group at the University of Las Palmas de […]
Water and energy under one roof: Canagua y Energía wraps up today in Agüimes
Can you taste seawater, or rather what is left of it after desalination? At Canagua y Energía you can: Aqualia is offering tastings of its new “Alma de mar” sea salts, made from brine and flavoured with lemon, chilli, activated carbon, tomato or wine. They will go on sale soon. The fair, now in its […]