permaculture

["Marsha Hanzi" <hanzibra@svn.com.br>]

Title: Help

Hello!

 

Some of us have met in the former list.  I am Marsha Hanzi,  from the Bahian Permaculture Institute in northeast Brazil.

I got into Permaculture from  an organic agriculture door, and we presently dedicate a good part of our time to farms and ranches, the most vibrant project at the moment being a drylands polyculture project in the interior of the State of Bahia, where I live. It has now reached some 500 small farmer families.

.  (You can se an extensive article about it at www.bothends.org under the "Encyclopedia of sustainability"

under "Polycultures in the Brazilian drylands"...)

 

I have bought 23 acres ( 7 hectares) of highly degraded land in a beautiful valley to implant an experimental center for dryland living.  A very small-scale ( maybe 3-7 people), basically an extended family, where students, trainees, artists, etc. can come to develop experiments of the various aspects of dryland living ( agriculture, essences, architecture, cisterns,energy techniques, music etc.)

 

I am a transplanted American, here for 25 years (left with the Peace Corps, never came back).  After a marvellous  trip through Oregon-California, across the desert into Phoenix last May ( where I ALMOST met some of you and DID meet Khalil Nader)I would like to re-build this bridge ( Brazil-USA), and also  accompany the general  tendencies of the international Permaculture movements.

 

I thoroughly enjoy and appreciate the contributions which are made on this list, it is a real privilege to have access to so much knowhow.

 

Sincerely yours,

 

Marsha Hanzi

Instituto de Permacultura da Bahia