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Rita
Rita is a health-food enthusiast and loves to work with different kinds of art-craft. She likes to explore with Medicinal plants, Food preservation and fermentation, Hygiene products and facilitating Forest School activities. Walking in the nature, singing with friends and doing yoga are some of the other things she enjoys.
Gonçalo
Gonçalo is a nature lover with a passion for Permaculture and Natural Farming. Studied Organic Agronomy and has been practicing it since 2008, with the help of volunteers, interns and apprentices. He enjoys sharing and to make music with friends.
About us:
We are a Portuguese couple with experience on permaculture and self-sufficient-living that in 2015 got 15ha of abundant land in a beautiful valley and an amazing community at the highest mountains inside the biggest natural park of our country.
Unfortunately in 2017 a massive fire went over this beautiful valley but in the same year we were blessed with our first home-birth daughter Dana. Lukcly, in 2020 Rui, Rita's brother, decided to join us to broad is farming knwoledge and improve is carpentry skills. In 2021 we were double blessed with the home birth of our twin sons, Aziz and Arsu. In 2022 the valley burned again in the Summer, we managed to save all the animals and structures . With us lives also 2 female dogs and 2 female cats besides many wild animals. We have weakly Working groups with neighbors and Forest School activities happening. Monthly also Jam session with neighbors...
Until now, with the help of lots of amazing people we build two yurts, a greenhouse dome, recovered a ruin for a kitchen and build a rootcelar with eartbags and a workshop with a greenroof. For the visitors we build a small kitchen, toilet, shower next to a Caravan with woodburner. Also done a stable for the farm animals with roundwood. Made a vegetable garden with huegel beds a small food forest and planted many trees and bushes. We have the help of horse,goat, sheep, pigs, chickens, ducks and bees to regenerate pasture where we plant trees and shrubs in order to convert it to an poly-crop system. Some small earth works like dams and swalles have also been made in other to extend the already existing ancient irritating system.
We want to share our daily life with people that like us search for a balanced life style opened to change and cooperation. So we hope your willing to practice this principles:
-Work with Nature not against it;
-Value edges, marginal and small;
-See solutions inerente in problems;
-Produce no waste;
-Value people, their skills and work;
-Respect for all life;
-Use public transport and renewable energies;
-Calculate food miles;
-Reduce your eco-foot print.
