We write the year 1500. The Portuguese navigators reaching the new continent found the tree in abundance at the coast and its hinterland. It presented itself with a hard red wood adorned with thorns, and pinnate leaves, consisting of...
1. Have a dedicated team around you. 2. Make it sustainable: Prepare the ground properly and use agroforestry know-how. 3. Don’t kill yourself with the machete, hospitals around here are for dying, not for living… ...
Find out what our motivation is to spend more than two weeks on the Fazenda Almada, planting trees!
Today we started the tree planting agroforestry project on the edge of the Natural Reserve on the farm Fazenda Almada. During the next two weeks we will be busy removing old grass cover, preparing the soil by overturning the...
Is it even possible to rightfully claim to help the environment with the Pangaea Project agroforestry project in Brazil, if I travel from Europe across half of the world for this? To be honest, I don’t know, but I want to give...
In the first week of July we start our tree planting and agroforestry project in Bahia Brazil. We are both excited to explore the area and its community and keen on sharing the acquired knowledge. We will work with...
Before travelling to the farm Fazenda Almada in less than two weeks to start our tree planting project, we want to shortly describe Agroforestry. The word combination already gives it away, and the concept is as easy as it sounds...
Bem vindo to another blog that leads towards Brazil. Although at the moment you encounter the country a lot in the media, I only recently started to learn more about it. The newspapers write about the Olympic Games in...
Bem día and thanks for reading the first entry about our tree planting and biodiversity project in July. Currently, we- that is about eight Pangaea members from Germany, Switzerland and Austria- are busy preparing our trip to and in...