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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Here, in the aromatic garden, thyme serves as a trusty staple. It thrives under the Portuguese sun and can stand both drought and frost. Despite their small size, the abundance of pink flowers attracts numerous bees and butterflies into the garden. Besides this, the leaves are used for their lovely flavour in many of our …
My name is Alexandre Seguro and I’m a Portuguese 17-year-old boy finishing high-school in Lisbon. I’ve become more conscious about the world around me in the recent years being concerned about its problems and striving to find and learn effective solutions. In the quest of making sense of my reality I started to question the …
Happy moments for all of us For me it was not just the end of 2018 but the end of living two years abroad – in Portugal and finally in Romania. 2016 I moved from the very very north of Finland (Utsjoki) to Oijärvi, from there to Espoo (south of Finland) and finally to Portugal, …
You know that feeling that something isn’t right, but you cannot really figure out what is? I’m quite familiar with that feeling I have to admit. ? It’s not always present on the foreground, not at all actually. Often times I even completely forget about it, yet it never stays away for too long. This …
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 …
It was during the full moon of July that the first night hike was organized by Team Ananda Kalyani. Already the moon was high when we left the Ananda Cafe and headed toward the Poço do Inferno in Serra da Estrela (Manteigas) where we started the trail. We shared in the silence of night, the …
With the aromas tour in the Master Unit Ananda Kalyani, was the right occasion to take care of body, mind and spirit! In a sharing ambience with nature and friends, we started the morning with an outdoor (about 2 hours and 30 minutes) walk, around the MU. Between mountains, hills and sierra …, through rivers, …
