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More than a year ago, we had @lakalleasociacion and @reflorestarportugal here filming a Tree Workshop - Seedlings and Xylotheque for the documentary A Look into the Future - Una Mirada al Futuro. It is fully available on YouTube and is incredibly inspiring as it showcases different projects of Agroecology with very hopeful perspectives: https://youtu.be/_MqxOHFnPuU This short video shows a small part of the beauty of working under large trees and helping regeneration through

Learning about places and landscapes can come to us in different ways, but poetry is one of the easiest to internalize; here, inspiration is in the air. I´ve captured these images over several months, always filming with my son, still a baby, on my back. We rediscover stories in the places we call home, so I decided to compile them, like a family album... These are places we visit often here in Minho, where we know the sounds and inhabitants, but where there is always much to

Our heart is the place where the pumping of pleasure, joy and rejoicing resides. Without too much hysteria, this is a fire that burns slowly and warms like a heartfelt embrace. When balanced, it gives a feeling of pleasure that comes from within and reaches every extremity and capillaries, right down to the very tip of our being. The Vine and the Violet, with their loving leaf shapes, hint that they know the secrets of this place. One creeps low, laden with tiny lilac flowers

We are increasingly pulled out of our context of peace, acceptance and inclusion. Whether it's the climate crisis, disagreements with peers, the false need for constant exposure, ideological extremes, or the demanding hours of our schedules... It almost seems as if we've unconsciously become addicted to the constant survival reflex that the sympathetic nervous system instigates in us. Therefore, it's crucial to practice relaxation and self-care, to find ourselves in a place w

In this spring season, full of activities and desires, it is very common for our reactivity to translate into allergies and irritations. So? We've been in an internalized winter, we move much less, our lymph is almost stagnant, all our resources are at a minimum, and even though, with modern luxuries, we don't suffer from hunger and cold like the ancients and animals, it's normal for our bodies to take a while to wake up. This is what happens with the four distinct seasons we

Sunny days call for special drinks. Here is the Oat Infusion, fresh mint, sparkling Elderberry and Hawthorn berries, all chilled and delicious! And the straws? Are they made from a new composite made from recycled toilet paper and cigarette butts? Or is it actually a new celluloid created in a lab? No, it is the Oat itself, hard and resistant, almost like Portuguese bamboo.