Permaculture Brazil

Managing holistically is reflected in a rich return of sustainable economic, environmental and social benefits. It is achieved with resources the land manager often already has in place.

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Whether land is used for ranching, organics production, food production in pastoral communities or public lands preservation, or even if it is unused, it can be returned to health and/or its productivity greatly increased without large infusions of cash, equipment or technology.

Consulting and training that improves productivity and profitability, even in drought, using existing resources or proven technology..

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PERMACULTURE IN PRACTICE

St. Andrews

Farming with nature 

3 types of Permaculture 

 Details the rise and rise of the "Permaculture Concept"

 Permaculture Ethics and Design Principles summary

"This is just great! It's wonderful to have people like this who can give so much to the world, it's strikes fear into the hearts of the CIA, NSA, and greed power elite who don't give a damn about the earth or the people, plants, and animals that inhabit it."

Characteristics of Permaculture

• Permaculture is one of the most holistic, integrated systems analysis and design methodologies found in the world.
• Permaculture can be applied to create productive ecosystems from the human-use standpoint or to help degraded ecosystems recover health and wildness. Permaculture can be applied in any ecosystem no matter how degraded.
• Permaculture values and validates traditional knowledge and experience.
• Permaculture incorporates sustainable agriculture practices and land management techniques and strategies from around the world. Permaculture is a bridge between traditional cultures and emergent earth-tuned cultures.
• Permaculture promotes organic agriculture which does not use pesticides to pollute the environment.
• Permaculture aims to maximize symbiotic and synergistic relationships between site components.
• Permaculture is urban planning as well as rural land design.
• Permaculture design is site specific, client specific, and culture specific.

(Source: Pilarski, Michael (ed.) 1994. Restoration Forestry. Kivaki Press, Durango, CO. p. 450.)

Permaculture is not limited to just plant and animal agriculture, but also includes community planning and development, use of appropriate technologies (coupled with an adjustment of life- style), and adoption of concepts and philosophies that are both earth-based and people-centered, such as bio-regionalism. Many of the appropriate technologies advocated by permaculturists are well-known.

Among these are solar and wind power, composting toilets, solar greenhouses, energy efficient housing, and solar food cooking and drying. Due to the inherent sustainability of perennial cropping systems, permaculture places a heavy emphasis on tree crops. Systems that integrate annual and perennial crops such as alleycropping and agroforestry take advantage of "the edge effect", increase biological diversity, and offer other characteristics missing in monoculture systems.

Thus, multicropping systems that blend woody perennials and annuals hold promise as viable techniques for large-scale farming. Ecological methods of production for any specific crop or farming system are central to permaculture as well as sustainable agriculture in general. Since permaculture is not a production system, per se, but rather a land use planning philosophy, it is not limited to a specific method of production.

Furthermore, as permaculture principles may be adapted to farms or villages worldwide, it is site specific and therefore amenable to locally adapted techniques of production. As an example, standard organic farming and gardening techniques utilizing cover crops, green manures, crop rotation, and mulches are emphasized in permacultural systems.

Yet, the use of the Keyline chisel plow, rotational grazing, the Aerway implement in no-till farming, and a whole number of other techniques are adaptable to farms working within a permacultural framework. The decision as to which "system" is employed is site-specific and management dependent. Farming systems and techniques commonly associated with permaculture include rotational grazing, agroforestry, swales, contour plantings, the Keyline method (soil and water management), hedgerows and windbreaks, and integrated farming systems such as aquaculture, intercropping, and polyculture.

Gardening and recycling methods common to permaculture include edible landscaping, keyhole gardening, companion planting, trellising, sheet mulching, chicken tractors, solar greenhouses, spiral herb gardens, swales, and vermicomposting. Water collection, management, and re-use systems like Keyline, greywater, rain catchment, constructed wetlands, aquaponics (the integration of hydroponics with recirculating aquaculture), and solar aquatic ponds (also known as Living Machines) play an important role in permaculture designs.

The word "permaculture" was coined in 1978 by Bill Mollison, an Australian ecologist, and his student, David Holmgren. It is a contraction of "permanent agriculture" or "permanent culture." Permaculture is about designing ecological human habitats and food production systems. It is an approach to land use which integrates human dwellings, microclimate, annual and perennial plants, animals, soils, and water management into stable, productive communities.

A central theme in permaculture is the design of ecological landscapes that produce food. Emphasis is placed on multi-use plants and the integration of animals to recycle nutrients and graze weeds. However, permaculture entails much more than just food production. Permaculture design concepts are being applied in urban as well as rural settings, and are applicable to single households or whole farms and villages. "Integrated farming" and "ecological engineering" are terms sometimes used to describe permaculture.

A mandalla is a simple and economic system developed in Brazil for small farmers production by Prof. Willy Pessoa.

Permaculture Design showing Zoning
Illustration by and Copyright April Sampson-Kelly inspired by PcSol
From Permaculturevisions website

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ONG Associação ABTC-BRASIL, a registered non-profit in Brazil, works with clients from a broad range of backgrounds and needs to fully utilize their site-based resources, turning problems into solutions. We harness the intelligence, efficiency and elegance of natural systems to create abundant, regenerative and beautiful farm designs, often based on current solar or wind energy. We serve all phases of project development from visioning and goal articulation to site selection, assessment and project management. Our work is based on both our clients’ needs and the qualities of their specific properties.

SCHOOL (ESCOLA) PERMACULTURE

Permaculture Design Courses - Portuguese, English, and French

Guided tours - Courses in English, French, and Portuguese conversation.

ACARI - 217 KM from Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil

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