Terra Sintrópica

🇬🇧 Mértola has been a place that welcomes everyone who passes through it since time immemorial. Many people have passed through Terra Sintrópica, stayed and contributed to a local, nutritious and regenerative diet. Davide and Carla have elevated the small kitchen at PREC to pure art. The art of honoring what is produced locally. The art of transforming textures, playing and combining the colors and flavors of plant-based products. The art of imagining a variety of dishes, every day. Art and cooking, together. Davide and Carla leave us a great legacy of creativity, inspiration and activism for the kitchen – which has been engraved in the senses of those who have passed through here. After all that their time at PREC has brought and now that they are leaving, who will be the next pioneers who will help us to explore and drive new horizons for regenerative food!? Thank you Davide and Carla for the legacy that points us towards the future! #alimentacaoregenerativa #plantbased #mertola #prec #cozinharegenerativa #agriculturaregenerativa #regenerativecuisine #regenerativeagriculture #nowaste #dahortaaoprato

The dramatic loss of biodiversity requires fundamental changes in societies and the economy – above all political and institutional. The BIOTraCes project, a consortium between several European universities (Sweden, Hungary, Spain, Lithuania, Italy, the Netherlands, Romania, Germany, Portugal), seeks to identify these necessary structural changes, working with local initiatives, in order to facilitate a dialogue that allows co-production of transformative, fair and safe paths. The aim is to use an action-research approach, through the development of knowledge, tools and new approaches, disseminating the local agroecological transition initiative and its governance model. In Portugal, Terra Sintrópica and the ‘Mértola Laboratory of the Future’ strategy were selected as a case study, with the CES | Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra as its scientific partner. We share with you the footage filmed by BIOTraCes to our project. 👇 https://lnkd.in/eHtAxxHE #SustainableFarming #RegenerativeAgriculture #BIOTraCes #TerraSintrópica #syntropy #Mertola

🇬🇧 Climate science, decarbonization, circular economy, regenerative agriculture, energy transition, food systems, ocean health, ethical fashion, urban regeneration, impact investing, climate tech: 2 days focused on systemic change & climate solutions through an independent, intersectional and inclusive platform for change. Terra Sintrópica is present, through the voice of Marta Cortegano, sharing our experience from the semi-arid region of Mértola: «𝘚𝘰𝘪𝘭 𝘵𝘰 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦: 𝘳𝘦𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘴𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘤𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦». You can still participate by registering on the website: https://lnkd.in/dxwrPwR #climatesummit #systemschange #climatejustice #climatesolutions #EthicalAssembly2024

🇬🇧 This month, the 7th cycle of the Food Evolution Program (by Rebundance) took place at Tamera Healing Biotope I, with great anticipation from many of the participants, who had long wanted to visit this project. We began the meeting with a collective dive into co-leadership: how can we promote regeneration if not by understanding our own emotions? We listened to the story of this long-standing community, its projects and principles, its growing pains, and community management in circles and forums, told by one of its Portuguese residents, who welcomed us so warmly. We had the opportunity to meet the various teams of this complex and inspiring community: from the management of dry toilets to composting, production in biodynamic agriculture, water management and landscape regeneration, solar-powered cooking, seed management… We are left wanting to come back, listen, cook and share much more. The next meeting will be in Mértola! -- This programme focuses mainly on regenerating the entire food cycle (co-leadership, food preparation and agriculture), which takes place between March and November in various locations, especially in the Alentejo. The programme is promoted by Chamar o Futuro CRL, with the aim of contributing to the creation of local skills and promoting connections between local actors in a regenerative food system. #evoluçãoalimentar #foodevolution #agriculturaregenerativa #regenerativeagriculture #syntropy #sintropia #regenerativefood #coliderança #coleadership #rebundance #mértola

🇬🇧 It's the last call for the SYNTROPIC EARTH IMMERSION! Two weeks of reflection and learning, planning and practice, about syntropy and successional agroforestry systems. A transformative experience, in understanding the Life processes that support the agroecological transition and the regeneration of ecosystems. Come and be part of this transformative learning. Check the detailed information and the registration form in the comments.👇 #regenerativeagriculture #agriculturaregenerativa #successionalagroforests #agroflorestasdesucessão #soilhealth #regeneracaopelouso #syntropicfarming #syntropy #dahortaaoprato #CozinhaRegenerativa #mertola

🇬🇧 There are several voices and landscapes that we will listen to and map together during the IMMERSION program: the diversity of local voices and landscapes and those of all those who will come to participate in it. A true IMMERSION is intended to be intimate, to create a space of proximity, openness and trust for deep and transformative learning, both personal and communal. Just like the ecosystemic relationships of which we are part and to which we belong. The IMMERSION program is almost starting. And we are already preparing to host this program. But there is still time for you to take part. More information in the comments. #regenerativeagriculture #agriculturaregenerativa #successionalagroforests #agroflorestasdesucessão #soilhealth #regenerationbyuse #syntropicfarming #syntropy #fromgardentoplate #RegenerativeCooking #mertola

🇬🇧 Autumn marks the beginning of the agricultural year, a good time for both sowing and transplanting. The CARES agroecological nursery offers several species that you can purchase and propagate in your landscapes and projects, helping your forest grow. There are plants on sale and if you purchase more than 400 units, we will give you a 5% discount, subject to stock availability. How to order? Send an email to viveiro@terrasintropica.com with the desired species and quantities. The plants can be picked up at our agroecological nursery in Mértola or delivered within a 50km radius, with shipping costs paid. Do we plant new life in autumn? #nursery #transplanting #autumn #MértolaNursery #plantsportugal #agroforestrysuccession

🇬🇧 How to get to know our project? We restart, with the fall, the guided tours to Malhadinha. . We receive requests from people who want to know our project: curious, researchers, professionals and even volunteers who cannot be at the least of a month, and would like to know what we do. To all we give the same advice: come take a guided tour of our forest-garden - CARES . Centro de Agroecologia e Regeneração para o Semiárido. In the end, you enjoy what you have seen, on a shared table of our regenerative food hub, PREC. A territorial lab, where one experiences the agro-ecological transition, from production to consumption, from territorial challenges to experimented solutions, from the garden to the plate. . Visits start again on 18 September. There will be two visits a month (one in English another in Portuguese), always on Wednesday. Link to registration in comments. We wait for your visit. #successionalagroforests #agroforestardsesuccession #syntropy #agroecología #agroecology #dahortapramesesa #visitagied

🇬🇧 The word “human” comes from the Latin “humus”, which means soil. What soil is this where we want to live? What soil do we have under our feet? What have we done, are doing and will do to regenerate it and return it to its plenitude? Without soil there is no Life. Humus. Humanity. . With one month left until the start of our IMMERSION, we celebrate the journey we have made and the horizon ahead. In search of lost fertility, we follow the paths of «utopia and feet on the ground». In a semi-arid territory, on the front line against desertification and climate change, this is an opportunity to guide our future practice, recognizing that solutions exist and are in our hands. . Check out detailed information about the IMMERSION program and the conditions for participation in the comments. #regenerativeagriculture #agriculturaregenerativa #successionalagroforests #agroflorestasdesucessão #soilhealth #regeneracaopelouso #syntropicfarming #syntropy #mertola

🇬🇧 Talking about syntropy is talking about belonging and co-evolution. Personal, community, ecosystemic. In this IMMERSION, the foundations of syntropy and regeneration through use will be the matrix of the program, but there will be room to experience the territory in its breadth and transformative power. Participating in IMERSION is being able to belong to a restless human ecosystem - «cá dentro, inquietação, inquietação» - listening and echoing, based on the concrete experience of what is experienced in Mértola. It will be a long IMMERSIVE conversation, participating in the experimentation and translation of syntropy to the semi-arid Mediterranean context, in one of the regions most affected by depopulation and desertification. A dialogical encounter between local production, the regeneration of a landscape, the consumption of what is nearby. An experience of the senses, from the garden to the plate, from the town of Mértola to the Vale do Guadiana Natural Park. Come be part of this human ecosystem and this experience-territory. A Laboratory of the Future. Check out detailed information about the program and conditions of participation in the comments. #regenerativeagriculture #agriculturaregenerativa #successionalagroforests #agroflorestasdesucessão #soilhealth #regeneracaopelouso #syntropicfarming #syntropy #dahortaaoprato #CozinhaRegenerativa #mertola