Yuramin - Guardians of the Land

Helder Valente is acting as a recognized permaculture teacher for more than a decade, researching & implementing sustainability principles in a wide variety of environments. He has been learning and working with recognized elder permaculturists Bill Mollison, Geoff Lawton, Sepp Holzer and many more in the major world climatic regions and we are super happy having had the opportunity to meet and exchange with him at Festança Permaculture festival in Portugal 22.

In this episode Helder shares about his journey to the Amazon jungle and reveals unexpected realities and challenges some of the indigenous tribes are facing to survive in these times.

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Annelieke van der Sluijs was born in the Netherlands and moved her life to Portugal many years ago, where she lives now in a lovely tiny house where she cares for several bee hives including the bees of Tamera EcoVillage. As a co-founder and holistic researcher of the BeeWisdom network she shares her passion and teachings of healing the relationship with the land through bees and trees.
We are grateful and honored for this interview, in which she is talking about her deep love journey with the "bee deva".

more info at www.beewisdom.earth

We had the honor to spend this winter volunteering at Tribodar, an inspiring project with the intention to recreate a paradise for human well-being in central east Portugal.
In this episode we are listening to Moabi Atma sharing about her experience of following her own intuition walking the path of healing as a kundalini yogini and as a mother of 11-year-old Manu who is growing up unschooling.

The moondance is an ancestral ceremony with its origins in Mexico, a prayer of sisters and brothers for mother earth and human evolution. 

The ritual is a beautiful chance for women to cleanse their bodies of generations of female suppression, to open up for healing and regain their strength, to transform into loving warrior women that our mother earth needs.

For the second time we had the honor to make part of this powerful prayer which transformed our lives and we are excited to share this episode with a precious interview of Antara Dakini, who organizes the moondance in Austria. 

More informations at www.moondanceaustria.com

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Verena Wallner takes us on a little tour through the seed bank and the vegetable garden of Zetmau permaculture farm. 

She shares her experience, useful tips and knowledge of working the plants in all their cycle. 

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Johannes Wedenig studied organic farming in Vienna, Austria. By that time a dream arose, a dream to live in nature doing communal gardening. Three years ago this dream became reality when he and his family bought a land in Carintia where many people have gathered so far to grow nutritious food in a sustainable way. He questions himself, how he can make his living as a farmer while keeping full respect for nature and wildlife.

His vision is to create a farm where all the elements are connected and work together as one.

Yassine Benderra is a passionate permaculturist, ecological activist and a healer. Together with his partner Joana they’re the guardians of a small piece of the land in the magical surroundings of Gerês, North Portugal. On their journey from the city to the country side, they found their way of living and working joyfully and connect with nature. Their duty is not only to protect the land but also to develop it into a regenerative ecosystem. In the last years, many other people have been coming to learn from their experience and knowledge.

Check their page here:
https://www.facebook.com/Projecto-Agroecológico-Do-Soajo-234572577197867/

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Interview with Yassine Benderra
Illustration by Isabel Aguabel
Musical Participation with Tim Daly

Pedro Paz grew up in Lisbon but then left his past life and belongings to return to the wild.
Now he is back in the city where he bridges both worlds by bringing people together to sing, dance and to reconnect with their own true nature.
His life as a researcher in dance, contact & improvisation has helped many people out of their mental and intellectual problems to find more joy, curiosity and magic in their lives.

Lukas Uhl was a traveling engineer for ecological restoration until he started longing for his own home somewhere to hang his backpack and start his own garden.

A little dream got bigger as he bought 11 ha of wild and remote land in Alentejo, Portugal, an area close to desertification due to its long history of environmental destruction and land degradation.

Together with his family and friends Lucas wants to put his experience about permaculture and ecology into practice to create a true paradise, where conventional agriculture, supermarkets and pollution simply become unnecessary.

In our forth episode Clare Finlator is sharing her story about selling her flat in London to become a guardian of a 35 ha land called Monte da Vida in South Portugal, where they are in a process of rediscovering what would be like an indigenous relationship with the surrounding plants and wildlife.

She talks about her journey of finding out about the function of a human being in an ecosystem and what can be done to regenerate our degraded parts of the earth and to come back to a life in harmony and balance.

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Interview with: Clare Finlator