“Our goal is to be as sovereign as possible in food and in the life model,” he explained. Among the members of Uribasterra was the one who had worked the most in the house. The rest of the friends made the decision to join the project for different reasons: one for wanting to live in the people themselves, another for getting tired of the speed of life of the city and others for being the ideal place to carry out their work/activity.

The work of the farmhouse is organized in shifts: preparing meals, taking care of the animals, performing the tasks of the vegetable garden, washing the clothes and frying, distributing all the work among all. They cultivate a vegetable garden of about 1,000 square meters: “Everything we produce is for home.” They say that when they reach food sovereignty they will decide their products.

opening or not. The first objective is to meet your needs.

They've created a test site in the attic of the farmhouse. In addition, the space features a recording studio, open to any local musician. They have also created Uribasterra Irratia: three radio programmes for the time being, Musika baratza musika alternatibo saioa; a programme that tracks live the Arrieta monthly fair in Azoka Bizia; and a space dedicated to agriculture and livestock on the margin of the farmhouse. At the moment it is broadcast over the Internet (on the website and on the blog of the Uribaster de Faceebook). Uribasterra is a farmhouse project, but “it’s also an idea to be a tractor village.” They've organized concerts, and there's someone who calls the Gaztetxe dwarf. The goal is not only to give life to the dwellings, but also to the small peoples. And surely, as in the case of Uribaster, both have some connection.