colheita de arbustos para compostar - shrubs for compost

Foto: colheita de flor de carqueja / "Genista tridentata"

Imagens captadas durante o "Village Life Experience 2012".

 Foto: esticar a corda para atar o molho de mato.

Foto: no meio do mato, cortando arbustos (urzes/Ericas, carqueja/Genista e sorgaços/Cistus) e desbastando os pinheiros-bravos/Pinus pinaster, que estão a mais,
podando os que permanecem.

 Foto: fazendo o molho de mato sobre a corda.

 Foto: campesinos com estilo.

 Foto: aqui vem um molho de mato prestes a ir para de cima do trator.

 Foto: o Monte do Colcurinh ao fundo, o trator carregado.

 Foto: trator carregado com vários molhos de mato, vamos embora.

Foto: um tio com um molho de erva às costas, no centro de Chão Sobral.

1st Cycle of Meetings "Edible landscapes - Food forests and Agro-forestry in Fire-prone Landscape"

O quê/What:

1º Ciclo de Encontros "Ambientes comestíveis - Florestas de Alimentos e Agro-florestas em Zonas de Incêndio" em Chão Sobral

Cada encontro é independente do anterior ou próximo.
O programa é co-criado pelos participantes e vai ser em detalhe adaptado aos interesses e perguntas dos participantes de cada encontro.

 

1st Cycle of Meetings "Edible landscapes - Food forests and Agro-forestry in Fire-prone Landscape" in Chão Sobral

Each meeting is co-created by all participants and is independant from previous or next meetings.

Interests and questions of each participant will be addressed in detail.

Porquê / Why:
"Porque vivemos num barril de pólvora ... " e precisamos testar práticas, gerar conhecimento e entender as diferentes maneiras de lidar com o nosso ecossistema, reduzindo o potencial destrutivo do fogo e gerando economia, serviços ecológicos e saúde.
"Because we live in a gunpowder barrel ... " and we need to test practices, enacting knowledge and understand the different ways to deal with our ecosystem, reducing the destructive fire hazard and generating economy, ecological services and health.
http://chaosobral.org/incendio.htm
http://florestaparasempre.no.sapo.pt/19jul001.htm

Como/How:
Visitas de estudo guiadas a zonas de incêndio, ambientes comestíveis e sistemas agro-florestais locais
Apresentações e oficinas temáticas
Actividades práticas agro-florestais e florestais para apoiar projetos locais

Guided study tours through fire-prone landscapes, edible landscapes and agroforestry systems
Presentations and workshops
Agro-forestry and forestry hands-on activities to support local projects


Quando/When:

Sábados / Saturdays - 25 Maio/ May, 1, 8, 15 e 22 de Junho / June 2013
9h-17h com intervalo para almoço.

Onde/Where:

Chão Sobral - Serra do Açor - Freguesia de Aldeia das Dez - Concelho de Oliveira do Hospital - Distrito de Coimbra - Portugal

Organizado por João Gonçalves - Terras Altas - Permacultura Aldeia Pedagógica
Organised by João Gonçalves - Terras Altas - Permaculture Learning Village

 

 

 

 

The Casuarina experiment on the ridge crest

For this Casuarina experiment a ridge crest (at about 600 mts high) with good sunlight exposure was chosen.

We have 5 trees, planted 2 years ago at the same time. The tallest is about 2 mtrs.
They were seeded at the same time, but have different growth pattern and shapes.
This site receives the strongest autumn winds we get around.

They are also exposed to the north freezing winds, and tip damage accurs in such events.
They will function has a south side windbreak edge along with Rosemary planted under their canopy.
In the future they will be pruned so as to cut limit their growth vertically and expand their growth horizontly.

They are the south edge of a agro-forestry flood irrigated tiny system that includes other trees like olives, pomegranate, peach, plums, apples, cherry, and kaki, plus perenials like palm cabbage, jerusalem artichoke, raspberry and mint.
Annual crops this spring include potatoe, lettuce, beet, palm cabbage, onions.
This tree performs the functions:
- capture wind energy and transform it into (very useful) wood, protecting other trees from wind damage
- capture sunlight relieving sunlight stress from other (deciduos) trees
- nitrogen fixing into the soil
- production of mulch, litter/leaves to use in the vegetable garden nearby
- produce seeds with new "local" genetics

O quintal a evoluir para um bosque alimentar - 28 de Abril de 2013

dry stone stacking builders

 Two friends reparing the terrace retaining wall,

that had collapsed a few months before.

It is nearly finished!

Some concrete mortar in between the stones,

was used in the base of this wall

to increase stability.

Free organic fertilizer - Fertilizante grátis

Terraces and water - Socalcos e água