O Fojo Permaculture O Fojo Permaculture

Maurício Umann

“Permaculture is a holistic design tool that supports man’s conscious reintegration to its own nature”

Man, seeker, father, designer, Permaculture and Bioconstruction practitioner and educator, for the last 12 years MU has been making his pathway to a totally focused life in Permaculture and in 2011 he has made his transition from the workaholic urban businessman to the full time rural based Permaculturist.

MU is the co-founder and co-director of O Fojo | Integral Education Center, in central Portugal. At O Fojo, he co-created and put into practice the Permaculture Experiences Events with 23 editions, Permaculture Internships, Agriculture and Community Living Experience Program with two editions and the Experimental Bioconstruction Event, Mãos na Terra, with 3 editions until the present time.

MU wrote the book Permaculture? Introduction Course; he is part of Perma-D | Permaculture Designers and co-author of the Aldeia das Amoreiras Project and book; MU cultivates his activity as a Regenerative Educator & Consultant (Permaculture, Bioconstruction, Communities and Ecovillages) since 2010, now in a professional way, with his new Project MUBIOCULTURE. As an educator, MU courses and hands on workshops counts on nearly 600 hundred students in Permaculture and Bioconstruction in Portugal, Romania, Brazil and Peru.

MU also created Fértil Caos | Alternative Productions, to spread the word about communities, alternative living, degrowth movement, voluntary simplicity, transition, permaculture, bioconstruction, etc.

In 2014 and 2015 MU collaborated with the Peruvian ONG Tikari, as a consultant designer and educator director, developing the Permaculture Project for Tikari Pachamama, an International Research and Educational Center to integrally regenerate Andean Ecosystems, by now, in Peru.

MU is also collaborating as a Permaculture and Bioconstruction consultant designer and educator, with Aurora Community, in Romania and other Permaculture, Natural Building project and implementation in Portugal, besides teaching Permaculture Design Courses and Natural Building in Portugal and Romania.

Luca Arguir

Luca started studying Permaculture 2 years ago, driven by the desire of gaining knowledge about the healthy and functional way to integrate human settlements in natural systems.

At some point he drew the conclusion that segregation and fear is the root cause of most problems surrounding him, and Permaculture with it’s ethics and principles answered to his search of a holistic approach of problem resolution and thinking.

He began the learning journey with a two-day Permaculture Introduction Course in Bucharest, his home city, followed by a long term volunteering work in a school yard garden project and an 100 Hours PDC at Aurora Community, Romania with Maurício Umann and Claudian Dobos.

At the present moment he is working with a friend as a consultant at a small farm project in Romania, looking forward to travel and volunteer to gain hands-on experience and connect with like-mined people.

Luca is coming to volunteer at O Fojo, by now, from March until July 2016!

Feijão

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Feijão (Bean) is a friendly and lovely free dog. O Fojo is his main house but he loves to go to the neighbors…they prepare nice special food for him, with love. Feijão loves to walk around and piss off the neighbor’s dogs. He is a fast runner and no dog can catch him on long distance running. He is here when he feels like. When he is not in the mood, he just goes for a forest walk and probably to have fun with some female friends around…

Chicken

Chicken are nice and productive workers. They scratch the soil, they devour food scraps from the kitchen, they love to eat some bad bugs and break the pest cycles, give us nice and healthy eggs and they live happily here! They are a very important source of learning for us and they use to play the main roles at our Chicken Chanel.