Our little field has 3 hectares crossed by a glen and a small stream. When we bought there was some native bush, some poplars in the lower parts, a few large eucalyptus and a straw field. The place had been overgrazed for many years, therefore very eroded.
Since I discovered permaculture I began to develop in him (and in me) a regenerative process. I started planting, I built a simple wooden hut and I kept planting and caring, always, without stopping.
I don't live in the place, I dedicate about 4 hours a week of real work to it, but I dream and design that land space every day of my life.
Today, with more than 100 fruit trees in development, many of them fruiting; wind curtains, some orchards here and there, fallow spaces, aromatic, medicinal and flowers everywhere, the diversity of nature begins to manifest itself in an incredible way and is telling me how to continue accompanying that regenerative process.
For the first time, this spring, the space of “Charrúa and Chaná" is opened to an instance of an introduction workshop to Permaculture and food forests, the same workshop that we have been sharing every year for some time now with "Permaculture Uruguay” in different parts of the east of the country.
The idea is to aim little by little to the north, to get out of the comfort zone, to expand the vitalizing energy of Permaculture to places where it has not reached.
We will show at least four different food forest systems. Rather than telling them about the place, the idea is that the place speaks for itself.
Different Food Forest systems that we are going to look at and analyze:
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Attached to monte nativo.
- In eroded place left fallow.
- Only from native: fruit and legumes.
- Syntropic agroforestry system.
- Spontaneous in the middle of a eucalyptus forest.
