I think it was when I was studying music in Mexico that I first thought about opening an Open Source School, where people that has low or no income just come in and exchange services for education. I feel closer every day to that project thanks to this wonderful tool-box that Permaculture has been to me.

When I was on my last year of high school I got in love with music but I have always been surrounded by friends that are either healers or doctors, that is when I learn how to teach vocal technique, which I spice with Reiki, Yoga, Music Therapy and digital audio recording. I studied also culinary technique in Ecuador in 2010 at the Asociación de Chefs de Ecuador. I worked for a Mexican events company in Germany and I am building a Permaculture touristic-demonstration-educational project in México. For all this I go with one of the resilience principles: one element perform many functions.

In December 2011, I acquired a piece of land in Drylands Hot-arid in Guanajuato, Mexico. I started planting organic and next thing I found myself surrounded with Permaculture and water harvesting books. At that time I started to experiment on paper and on the plot back in Mexico. Since then I spend every winter adding features to it. (see a copy of my project document here: http://linkedin.com/pub/oscar-torres/a0/89b/b26)

In 2013 I got my Permaculture Design Certificate by Geoff Lawton, and that was when the fun started. Simply by changing the way I see the problem: as a solution and of course by building community.

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Oscar

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." -- Albert Einstein

Workshop - Introduction to Permaculture and Reading the Landscape

Help surveying a place near Samalayuca, Chihuahua in Mexico

Permaculture design 20ha about 52km from el Paso Texas.

Rainwater harvesting, Earthbag construction, Zone 1 designing

Volunteer in El Expejo in February 2014

Earth-bag construction, infiltration swales, Zone 1 designing.

Volunteer in February 2014 in México

Reservoir | 01.12.2012

Reservoir made on October 2012

First Organic Harvest at EL ESPEJO

Flor de Junio and Pinto Beans harvested

PESTS - CONTROL

What do you guys recommend as organic pests control?

LINKS

Here are the news of what we are doing. We are pretty happy to announce that we just planted for the first time 4 has of Frijol flor junio in El Espejo and it is doing pretty well.

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