If I'm going to talk about permaculture, you already know that it all started thanks to @saraleo. After reading that book he gave me, not a month had passed and a couple of young instructors came to me: Claudia, who is now my best friend and Abel, a great friend who has taught us almost everything about the subject. He is an enthusiastic dreamer who showed us a different path to follow.
For them I graduated from permaculture with the Antonio Núñez Jiménez Foundation and put into practice everything I learned. They have a local development project with his farm in the Sierra del Rosario which we call Ramaviva. It became a habit to go every month to work, dream, live in nature in balance with this and each contribute their bit.
It all started for me in 2019. I remember very fondly each of the people I met there, the great friendship that many of us made and that we have maintained over the years.
With Dairon, a great friend, at the insect hotel.
Permaculture is that, beyond planting a seed, it is about the philosophy that allows you to create a life design based on beneficial relationships with people and nature, taking better advantage of everything we have at our disposal. Embracing ethical and design principles prepares you for a conscious existence. You don't have to live in the countryside or be a farmer to reflect and put them into practice. They seem to me to be the ABC's they don't teach us in schools.
Principles such as: that an important function is supported by several elements and that one element supports several functions, should be present in our projects. If you think about it, we empirically put these types of rules into practice in our daily lives. For example, some people try to have more than one economic input, which is one of the most relevant functions. Another classic example might be cooking, it would be wise to have more than one way to do this. Permaculture is to do this consciously with every detail of our life.
Ramaviva is a school for me, as it is for so many and will continue to be. There I learned to work in a team, to listen, to communicate and above all to observe; to create connections with nature and with people, to understand natural and human processes... to deal with emotions.
building the first mandala garden
Here I became even more familiar with the bees I work with today. As I had little experience at that time, I had my first and only failure with a hive; this served me well, as I never again made mistakes when dealing with them.
First hive
Sowing a plant and building a vegetable garden, knowing and using a dry toilet, reusing any waste and giving it a new useful life, creating with our hands any tool, bathing in a river and drinking its water, sleeping under the stars and orienting ourselves by them for the crops are just some of the experiences I carry with me from this wonderful place.
Bioconstruction process of the hut
Dry bath
For now I say goodbye with much more to tell and desire to do so, but leaving open thread for anyone who wants to talk more about the subject. Tell me what aspects of permaculture you know or would like to be aware of. It is very exciting for me to talk about it.
...Chau.
