After our successful Pangaea Tree Planting project in summer 2016 (see video) another group of motivated Young Explorers travelled to Bahia to work for positive change. (Blog auf Deutsch + in English) Brazil Tree Planting Project from Abenteuer Schwarzwald...
From the 21st to the 25th July 2017, we held our summer reunion in Vorauen, Klöntal in Switzerland. Around 30 of us enjoyed the beautiful region with its high-rising mountains along the lake. During the Reunion, we shared our...
You might wonder what we do here all day. We admit, we were asking ourselves the same before coming to rural Bahia. Many expected that planting a tree cannot be that difficult and time consuming. Expectation: You just dig...
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...