i am a co-founder of NGO Puravida, a Brazillian association dedicated to the promotion of permaculture and conservation of the Mata Atlantica, and steward, since 2006, of a 150 Ha forest-cocoa farm based in Agua Fria (Bahia)
in 2008, i graduated a PDC with Steve Read at The Dharma House
in 2010, with other Puravida conspirators, we attended the Terra Madre gathering in Torino to promote a sustainable food transport project and launched it the following year by delivering french wine to London on a sailing ship built in 1907. the New Dawn Traders were born.
Since 2011, i started a 18 months commission from the local council of Coti-Chiavari in Corsica to design a 9 Ha ethno-botanical garden on the site of a 19th century citrus orchard.