Allo everyone!
For starters, I'd like to say that several members of our team have enjoyed Permies for years and years now; notably, rocket mass heater stuff (tangent: we built one in a previously abandoned house in Detroit, Michigan. So, thanks for that!).
Now (well, four years ago...) we've relocated to north-central Portugal, where
we have begun regenerating a lovely piece of land while reviving its abandoned granite village. Since arriving, we've already gotten settled; established homes, cleaned the land, observed the seasons, improved water in the landscape, equipped a workshop, and set a conceptual roadmap-design for the project. Finally, we're ready to host workshops and courses; mushroom cultivation and natural birth are coming up this month, and
our very first Permaculture Design Course on our new land will go down this June! Exciting times... no doubt about it.
Our five-family collective is made up of farmers and growers, a soil microbiologist/landscape architect, an herbalist, a permaculture engineer (he's been building solar batteries lately), finish plasterers (clay, tadelakt, scagliola), carpenters, builders, a midwife, musicians and dancers. Oh, and five children... Phew a;)
And so, on behalf of the team, it's a pleasure to be here. I'll do my best to check in from time to time, add whichever two-cents I can rummage up.
See you around,
Surplus
ps. Here's a link to our website (but I beg of you to be kind, the website is shamefully out of date... we've been busy IRL!):
https://www.surpluspermaculture.org/
pss. If anyone has any suggestions on where to promote for permaculture courses and workshops online, please do not hesitate to share them
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