after spending three weeks at Michels little paradise, it feels incredibly strange to be back in the city. I attend a small farmersmarket where I sell some of my fruit. During october their is the walnut harvest.īuilding and renovating I do mainly during the 'colder' months, november until april. I don't have a big production so we'll have time to do other things as well. The one in charge here are the seasons, they determine the tasks: pruning, harvesting, planting, building.Įnd of august you can help me with the carob and almond harvest. If you like to have the same experience or if you want to help out (there's always something to do :-) ) You're welcome. I would like to invite anyone interested. Things so many people (as I had) have lost connection with. This last couple of years I learned so much about herbs, wild edible plants, skills that schools do not teach. A place that shows it's possible to live off grid and without all the waste that mass consumption creates. That's why I like to create a place for people to come and stay, to come and go, to live and learn with nature and the cycle of life. Lots of people know that the rat race is not healthy but do not know what the alternatives are. By using local material (like cane) and traditional building techniques i want to keep it as ecologic as possible. I already started rebuilding parts of it. There are also two old buildings on the land. I grow vegetables for own use and make my own marmalade and dryed fruits. The goal is to enhance biodiversity, become an educational, demonstrative and working permaculture project (not just words but action), self sufficiency and off grid living. More concrete: the walnut guild, alley cropping, mulching, using nitrogen fixing trees, on contour planting. and experiment with permaculture guilds I am transforming this current situation into a food forest. Scattered around are some apple, apricot, pear, pistachio, pomegranate, myrtle, mulberry etc.īy adding other species like avocado, white sapote, cherimoya, guava. Uphill are olives, almonds and carob trees. Near the river are the trees which are in need of more water like walnuts, citrus, loquats, kaki. The land has never been transformed into a monoculture of species but has been build up logic. Big part of the slope is terraced by dry-stone walls. Part of it lies next to a river, another part is a plain halfup the hill. Since 2010 on a 5ha plot of land I'm putting back an abandoned farm in working order. I'm a belgian who has moved to Sicily, Italy.
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