What is Sea of Green? The Sea-of-Green (SoG) method in gardening is defined by planting with short distances between each plant so that the plants grow straight up instead of growing wide (suppressed branch development vs forced stem growth). A lot of crops in agriculture use the SoG method of systematic planting. Sea of Green project at Terra Alta For our Sea of Green project at Terra Alta this summer, will be going a step further and mixing the up the varieties, using linea

What we seem to call civilization seems to carry a strong feeling of separation. Matter has lost its inherit sacredness for most of us and out of that a society that seems to have its roots in heavy consumption and the depletion of Earth systems has been instilled as the dominate Culture. If we open the book of history, the one that is written in our collective memory, we can easily tag some keywords like: DOMINATION - We believe that somehow other species are a threat. There

Greeting web surfers. In this post I will share one of many essays I wrote for the Ecovillage Design Education course hosted by Gaia Education. These words of reflection entered my head after studying a module on Leadership and Power as part of a Social Dimension course. Hope you enjoy it. The hollow seed In 1990 the music collective Snap released a hit track named "The Power". Throughout the track, the lead singer drops the line "I´ve got the power". First time I listened to

Greetings! Last summer we hosted one more edition of a permaculture design course in Terra Alta, Portugal.  As a co-facilitator of the course introduced the students to the social part of permaculture that brings the design field of “zones” from land designing into the people social sphere. The students feedback was really positive and made me think in what i am going to present. I have used the book people and permaculture, from Lobby Macnamara,  were the author describes di