Our first full day in the field is to remember and learn the patterns of nature. We will discuss how elements move in and through an ecosystem; how to plant and harvest water in a landscape; how to plant seeds and plants today that feed and nourish your garden or system for years to come. 

We will ask big questions like: What role does your community play in the work we do? How can we engage our communities to be their own eco-agents? How and where we can share what we learn in new spaces and create dialogue around the change we are here to plant? 

We will head into the town of Juluchuca and begin work on Don Gabriel's land. Today includes pruning big trees, chainsaws and machetes, organizing material and laying out the plant patterns in the space, sitting and learning at the foot of a tree to remember the patterns discussed the day before; and dancing to Brazilian music while we sweat, dance, hoe and map the land. Bring your garden gloves and high energy! Yoga at the end of the day to stretch it all out. 

Back to the field for the planting day. This is where all the hard work of yesterday pays off; and where we plant much more than just a few seeds and plants in the ground.

We are planting the framework for a regenerative community; we are engaging women and men in Juluchuca to regeneratively manage their own watershed; we are inviting each of you to take these new seeds of knowledge and science back to your communities to be grown there, too. 

Sunday is for you. You will receive a lot of information over the first four days together. You will take notes, do the practical work, ask questions, and have so many new questions bubbling up. Soak it in before you rush back to real life. Sit by the ocean with Namaste and me. Journal from your favorite spot along the private beach. Move slowly, eat slowly, talk with new friends. Let's make sure this is just the beginning, not the end of anything. 

We can't wait to receive you and learn by your side.