Organic Retreat   An 8-day week of bringing your body into nature

"Make your food your medicine and your medicine your food" - Aristotle

Várzea da Gonçala offers an 8 day workshop retreat, teaching the essence of growing, gathering, preserving and preparing powerful nutritious plants in ecological ways in the garden, food-forest, back-yard, indoors. We learn how vegetables, wild weeds, and fruits can become the basis of human heath, preventing and tackling modern ailments.   
The emphasis is on recognising the healing and vitalising power of nature.in its many aspects.

Eating from the earth:  Organic soil development, making beds, bringing the soil to life
​Raw is beautiful:  Learning how to grow seasonal vegetables and sprouts in an intensive ecological garden. Using worms, making perfect potting mix, producing effective micro-organisms, and creating a nursery.
Learning from the forest: The basics of food-foresting, design, irrigation, art of location. How to develop a tree-nursery, and how to propagate nut and fruit trees.

Lactic fantastic:  The nutritional importance of wild fermentation:  Sour dough, Sourkraut, Kefir, Yogurts, and more.

Legalise home-brewing!  How to brew home-made wine and beers, and the basics of distillation.

Healing diets    Dealing with carcinogenic diseases with a balance organic diet.  Preparing and cooking power-dishes and locally-gathered suppliments.

Weeds under our feet can save our lives!  The role of gathering and processing local weeds to strengen our immune system



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