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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
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