In Ananda Valley we have over the past couple of weeks created a new garden, our heart garden. To make a new garden, or to plan what to plant on your plot of land, your balcony, window-sill or your allotment is a creative process and an art in itself. Our heart garden carries a set …
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Following our previous blogpost on Permaculture and Change , we explored how vital the permacultural principle of change is to our growth, not only in the agricultural field – but all the fields we walk through. In this second part we will dive into how permaculture-thinking can inspire us to look differently at diversity and …
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The principles behind permaculture can be applied to many more fields than just garden design. Our brother Florian is sharing his knowledge through our new Permaculture Series, both in workshops at Ananda Valley and on our blog.
Ananda Kalyani Master Unit is working with an international project called Youth in Permaculture (YiP), whose mission is to support and empower youths and young adults to lead fulfilling and healthy lives inspired by permaculture through events organised by and for the youth, who plan to share information and practical tools through online platforms and …
As part of our colaborative experience with OUSEM, we have had the support of three EVS volunteers in the Master Unit. OUSEM, The OUtstanding Solutions for EMpowerment association, is focused on promoting local development projects, has been helping on projects like the Ananda Kalyani and the Covilhã transition movement, “Covilhã em Transição“. The three volunteers, Enrico, …
CASAS– The sustainable agriculture and healthy eating club is organizing an introduction to Permaculture in Covilhã, 40 hours distributed by 3 weekends, with the help of the permaculturist João Jorge. The theoretical part of this course was held in the Yoga Room in Covilhã on the first weekend, and the pratical part was help in …
For a couple of weeks seemed already spring: very hot sun, warm breeze, and in the air the tipical march perfume… it lasted only up to few days ago, when temperature dropped 10°C, due to cold winds from the north.
During last permaculture workshop I was happy to have discovered that from willows and poplar trees we can easily obtain a nice rooting hormone solution. Usually there is no need to use hormonal rooting solutions or powders, now very common and used like miracle-medicines to avoid proper thinking. But homemade willow or poplar solutions can …
To channelize our inspiration and begin some experiments in different soils, we finally convinced a friend in the Alps to build together with us a small “raised-bed” just on the border of his veggie-garden! Actually the history of this plot of land is quite interesting too: after several years of free-time agriculture 2 heart attacks …
This weekends ago we partecipated into a very nice event: Introduction to Permaculture in Fundao, fifteen people or so, in a 2 day workshop with Joao Jorge. Interesting 2 days theory on permaculture, a lot of questions and creative replies, finishing with a practical session, shown in the video – raised bed and community strenghtening: …
