We want to share the experience of travelling by bicycle with young people and meet initiatives and people who offer alternatives to the serious eco-social crisis we are experiencing. For us, this way of getting closer to the territory has been, without a doubt, a transforming experience. I would like Rural Forks to be part of the engine of change.

Rural Forks has a big importance to both young people and the rural areas we come from. Rural Forks enables us as young people to develop our potential as agents of change and provides the tools and knowledge to contribute to sustainable rural development. Through this project, we are not only creating a better future for our rural areas, but we are also opening the way to new ways of looking at things.

I believe that the Rural Forks project is a game changer for young people in rural areas. It offers them a unique opportunity to actively participate in their communities, learn about sustainable initiatives and contribute to the development of their regions. Empowerment through hands-on experiences and meaningful dialogue builds skills, promotes a sense of belonging and ignites a passion for creating positive change.

We are very excited about the Rural Forks project. Since the end of the first Biela y Tierra route, we wanted to share with the younger generations our way of getting to know and getting to know the territory, its people and its projects. I can't wait to start cycling with the groups!

For me, Rural Forks is a journey back to the village, a confirmation that there is an alternative to city life. A journey that has given me clues as to where to start walking. I have listened, breathed, watched, sung, cried and of course sweated every landscape. Thank you, Burgos!

For a long time, I felt the need to return to our roots, to our origins. To really see that a community life is possible, a simple life, with the right needs in nature... And this initiative has been able to provide it. It has been an apprenticeship of new knowledge, reflections on the urban lifestyle that we lead and the problems that this brings to the rural world. I really want to get to know our environment, be part of it and do my bit. It has been a real motivation.

For me, Rural Forks means growth and discovery for me and for other people and projects. It has been a unique and magnificent experience of learning about a lot of topics and people that I did not expect, such as how the bike works, how to use different ways of communication, how to manage oneself much more, how to believe and trust in oneself to be able to do it towards society, and much more.

The power of the union of people who want to rethink things, want to be aware and take action. Willingness to plant seeds and water them. Transformation. Accepting that although there are impediments, and it is hard, we can and we want to, and thanks to that we will continue pedalling.

Rural Forks has been a process of hope and empowerment to always choose, from now on, the option of changing the world and our environment through collective action and participating in exciting projects.

An adventure full of joy, moments of reflection and pure love. A space and time where you get away from everything you know and can feel the power of the Earth and the people who shine like stars, with whom you lose yourself in their great soul full of feelings and great ideas. An opportunity to meet the great projects that are close to you waiting for you to join forces with them to nurture and grow like a great oak tree.

Rural Forks is one of those experiences we all should have. It is learning; it is connection with our foundation and roots; It is closeness with local people who open the doors of their homes to us; it is coexistence; It is intensity in flavours and smells; It is a commitment to the value of things through effort and work, It is history, experience and experience, is self-knowledge, It is reflection; It is illusion, enthusiasm and motivation, is collaboration, adaptation and communication, It is a common goal. Let's keep pedalling!

Rural forks has shown me that it is necessary to take action soon, it may already be too late tomorrow. In the end, it has reaffirmed the values and ideals that I already had, but it has empowered me in my capacity to make decisions as a consumer. Seeing that there are so many projects that work in ecology, appreciating the work they do, and how they try to do their bit, makes me want to support them. The empowering work of this project is also remarkable.

It means listening, sharing and communicating, making the invisible visible, the desire to understand, enthusiasm, learning, sharing, and defending the rural environment and the environment. It means wanting to change. This project means giving vision to such an important part of the world as the primary sector, the land, the materials it gives us, and the people who work with them. It means understanding and being able to create a correlation and a synergy in which nature and humans are connected and united.

It has been an experience that reveals to us the importance of valuing the little things, that the essential is much easier to discover than we think and that focusing on ourselves and our possibilities will bring out that treasure that we all have inside and that makes us shine. It has also filled me with hope, in an increasingly ugly world with bad news all around. This opportunity makes us focus on what is necessary, not on the distractions along the way from which we get nothing.

This project has been very enriching for me. During these 12 days on the road, I have been nourished by everything that, like bees, has swarmed around me. I have surrounded myself with incredible people. People from whom I take not only the name but also a lot of learning and life experiences. I have also been lucky enough to visit groundbreaking initiatives. All of them have given me a different way of seeing things. This project is a little plant that grows amid so much desolation. Many seeds have been planted in this project and little by little they will sprout. Let's be enzymes, let's catalyse the reaction.

I took Rural Forks as an opportunity to reconnect and rediscover, not only the rural environment but also Spain as a country. From it I regained a little hope for rural life, I was able to recover a part of me that I thought was dead after 5 years in Ireland. Rural Forks is an experience I would recommend to anyone who doesn't quite feel at ease with modern life in society, or you could join a cult, which also offers a sense of community and a common mission that is lacking in modern life.

Rural Forks has been an experience from which we can learn. Getting around by bike shows that we don't need vehicles to travel certain distances and that we can observe our surroundings while cycling. Being able to visit all the initiatives and learn from each of them has been very rewarding. We have enjoyed a few days in a great group; many emotions which I am glad have all been positive.

Rural Forks has brought youth and a vibrant rural world together in the world's best mode of transport. Rural Forks is about solidarity, mutual support and rootedness in the community.

Rural Forks is a small space in our lives capable of changing the perception of the challenges that dazzle our generation, balancing, thanks to pedalling, our thinking and our feelings.

Most young people, when we think of going on a trip, do not consider that there are other alternatives to get to know the world other than visiting capitals or big cities. Ruralforks gives the opportunity to get to know villages with different rural initiatives, with the chance to discover a little more of our own country. And as if this were not enough, doing it by bicycle, which is one of the most sustainable means of transport, has shown that it is also a possible and environmentally friendly way of travelling.

Rural Forks is the opportunity to create a network of young people with similar interests and values to my own and to enjoy their humanity, as well as that of the initiatives visited and the organisers.

It has been a real learning experience. Learning about the rural world, personal stories, communicating, travelling by bike and above all learning from the people with whom I have shared these 12 days. It has also helped me to imagine a future outside the big cities and that there really is life in those places that claim to be depopulated.

A space that has allowed me to stop and breathe and see what we have in front of us in a different way, where we can place at the centre the care for water, the earth and those of us who live there. A real learning experience!

The opportunity to share the experience with other people very different from me, with whom I share concerns, and to nourish myself with the initiatives and the lives behind them, which have inspired me and helped me to further expand my horizon.

For me, Rural Forks has been an experience, an adventure and a learning experience. Before getting involved in this project I was nervous, I didn't know if I was going to fit in or not, but the truth is that the days I've been able to enjoy it have been wonderful. Using the bike to get around is fantastic and fun, as well as sustainable. On the other hand, learning about the initiatives that exist in rural villages has allowed me to know first-hand that it is possible to live in a village and lead a much healthier life. Finally, I would like to congratulate the organisers of this project.

Rural Forks is a lighthouse and a tree. Lighthouse: It makes the light of goodness and humanity shine and has given me tools for my life project. Tree: It has given life to something that will not stop growing. The organisation decided to plant a tree and put us in contact to decide which tree and how we wanted to take care of it. Once it was decided, we watered and cared for it together so that it would grow. Together we have given it life: complementarity and flexibility. It will continue to grow. Some of us will go for some branches and others for others, as a whole, depending on the branch. But the branches will go on, add new ones, attract and be home to wildlife and bear fruit.

I came to the route with very low expectations, as I didn't want to spoil what I thought it would be like, and I think that's what made the experience so amazing. From this route, I take with me the empathy, solidarity and knowledge of each of my colleagues and all the people we have met along the 360 km we have travelled. Now it's time to reinvent ourselves and apply what we have learned.

Energy and community. Knowing that "you are not crazy" and that there are other ways of being and being in the world. The experience is that we can build projects with our hands. Choosing rural as a sustainable way of life. And of course: "metre by metre" but never stop moving forward, because we can.

A life experience full of learning about the world and about myself. I have seen firsthand how other ways of life are possible, how it is possible to make a firm and enterprising commitment and that in the community the struggle and the force for change towards more sustainable and respectful models is much greater. This, like every new experience I have, I know it is the gateway to new adventures, it will be a turning point to encourage me to travel by bike, a reflection to break with the routine that often absorbs me and bet on learning, anywhere and live better.

The most sustainable way to live a team adventure, in a healthy and sustainable way, supporting the rural world and encouraging collaborative work for any personal, interpersonal and socio-economic development in a medium-term and resilient view of a future of economic and climatic collapse.

To create bonds of friendship, to travel sustainably, to be inspired and nourished by rural life initiatives, and to make it known that living rural world is possible and necessary.

Participating in Rural Forks is a unique opportunity. Travelling by bike with young people of different ages and from completely different backgrounds is a very enriching experience. Getting to know the rural territory and the initiatives in the first person allows us to get closer to many different realities and encourages us to pursue our own life projects. Rural Forks has a touch of rebellion because, in a mega-globalised society, it is committed to values such as travelling by bicycle, to the rural world, to the local, to community life, to slowness and reflection.

Rural Forks for me is divided into 2 blocks: Firstly, by getting to know the initiatives I have seen a living territory in Aragon and with a desire to do things in the rural environment, and valuable information from sources of information, consumer groups, etc. And secondly, the joy of having taken the step of signing up despite my fears. The union that there has been is brutal and I am taking with me people that I hope will be a long-term link, as Andrea said. For me, it has also meant great personal growth as a person of what I want in life and what I will not settle for.

Rural Forks is about sharing. You learn from and talk to your colleagues. You live together and enjoy the journey by bike, even when there are difficulties and you have to wait. It also allows you to talk to neighbours who open their doors to get to know them and to grow.