Hello Community,

I will share with you a story from the place I live, but I have a feeling this story could be expanded to many other places in Brazil and worldwide. It is a story of a guy that loves cultivating food forests but that don’t have enough land to scale.

For the past 10 years I have been trying to make a transition from the city to the rural. Together with my partner we bought a small degraded land, built a house and started regenerating the place. And so it happened, after 10 years it became a nice food forest. I also managed to multiply seeds of rice, beans, peanuts, corn, rhizomes of taro, cassava, and other sun friendly yearly species that weren’t happy under the shade of the food forest.

So I looked for a land to lease to continue the process of increasing biodiversity, this time leaving more space between the tree rows to plant the crops. I talked to a neighbor here, a cattle rancher like all my neighbors, and he leased me a small piece of his compacted brachiaria pasture. It was August 2020, in the midst of the dry season. and I was up for the biggest harvests of my life. I first cutted all the grass, wrecked it to the sides, tilled the land (only once in the first year) and brought the wrecked material back in to cover the tree rows, that were raised to a concave shape and added compost. The end result was mimicking a bird’s nest, with the borders higher then the middle, a shape that provides a bit of shade in the middle and help to harness humidity. It was oriented North-South so as the trees wouldn’t make shade in the mid lines.

At the time I was interacting a lot in a web 2 social network called earth-regenerators and wanted to document the evolution of the plot so maybe people could relate, and experience the natural rhythm, with only monthly posts, but with the full length of one year or more. Now I plan to share it here with you in the form of a few posts and NFTs. I hope you enjoy the journey.

This is it for now, to be continued.