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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, Fermented food, ways of preserving food and appreciates doing basketry, wool-work and book-binding. Also likes to produce cleaning and hygiene products like natural detergents, soaps and salves. 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, guiding aprentices, volunteers and interns. He is interested in traditional building technics, enjoys singing, playing didgeridoo and to make music with friends.
About us:
We are a young couple with some experience on sustainable living that in 2015 got a piece of land in the mountains and wants to make a Natural Farm that empowers people in a co-evolving community.
Until now, with the help of lots of amazing people we build two yurts, a greenhouse dome (nursery), recovered a ruin for a kitchen and build a rootcelar with eartbags and a workshop with a greenroof. For the volunteers we build a small kitchen, toilet and shower. Also built a roundhouse shelter for the volunteers but in 2020 a group of 4 young volunteers with 18 years burned it so since then wen can only camping is possible. This year, we are doing a crowd funding to pay a neighbor to make us a Tipi to replace the shelter for the volunteers. 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, chickens 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.
Unfortunately in 2017 a massive forest 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 and in 2022 hited again by a massive forest fire. With us lives also 2 female dogs and 1 female cat besides many wild ones.
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.
