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12/02/2011 |
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Last Updated:
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18/06/2011 |
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Chao Sobral, Portugal |
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Warm Temperate |
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Male |
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Born in 1979, João Gonçalves is growing his tap root in Chao Sobral, a 100 people + 500 year old hamlet standing on convex and ridge slopes that reach 1200 mts altitude, in the central Portugal Goshawk mountains.
For the last 30 years, he has been participating in a broad range of activities (agriculture, forestry, recreation, community organisation, non-formal education) that compose the subsistence mountain ridge polycultural family farming system and self-reliant community.
Since 2008 he has a degree in Social Education and Community Development (Leisure and Social Pedagogy - from the Coimbra Polytechnic College of Education). It was during his internship research on "sustainable communities" that he encoutered for the first time the concept of "permaculture".
To bring influence to his work from multiple approaches to Permaculture and Regenerative Design Education, earned PDC's in Portugal/2009 with Doug Crouch (USA), in Spain/2011 with Richard Perkins (UK) and Darren Doherty (Australia), in Portugal/2012 with Bernard Alonso (Canada), a Regenerative Agriculture Workshop in Portugal/2011 with Darren Doherty, and a Permaculture Teacher Training Course in Portugal/2012 with Rosemary Morrow (Australia).
Current and past work / learning / leisure - photos & video:
https://www.facebook.com/TransformaVerde/
http://www.youtube.com/user/joaovox
http://www.youtube.com/user/upchaosobral
https://get.google.com/albumarchive/100549245946323259121
Centro de Convergência documentary film in Aldeia das Amoreiras:
http://vimeo.com/58999047
Avocado trees in Portugal:
http://abacateportugal.blogspot.pt/
Low-input-"traditional" agriculture and gardening in rural Portugal
http://agricultura-familiar-tradicional.blogspot.pt/
Promoting Permaculture in Malawi, slides
http://www.slideshare.net/joaovox
Home-hamlet blog and association website
http://chaosobral.blogspot.com
http://chaosobral.org/
Internship in Covas do Monte, a mountain village in central Portugal, that used to have about 60 people and 1500 goats ...
http://agricultura-covas-do-monte.blogspot.com/
3 months volunteering, social technology work in Mozambique (with the Salesian Community- Parish and Schools)
http://mzsuztentavel.blogspot.com/
workshop that provides the basic design tools to create a garden of eden, starting with avocado ...
The Alentejo - Portugal, perennial plants breakfast: walnuts, cured olives, roasted quercus rotundifolia acorns, tangerine and orange peel tea, lucky me!
Photos of the Paw-Paw seedlings recently planted on our tiny zone 2 woodland garden.
Pictures of the tree callous and root formed during the air-layering period.
Casuarina are multifunctional trees and we are creating a local/Chão Sobral Casuarina seed bank.
These two places are located south of 38º Latitude and do experiments with exotic subtropical and tropical plants
A permaculture approach to beekeeping will be presented for the first time in Aldeia das Amoreiras
3 videos showing the working proccess of a team of six people with no machines, in a 6 days workshop, building a earthbag ecodome in central Portugal
This tree is making its third year in our forest garden and has been the bright star.
the early stages of a perenial edible landscape within the green-house microclimate - creating the conditions for the pleasure of co-creation and learning from nature evolutions
"Because we live in a gunpowder barrel ... " and we need to test practices, enacting knowledge and understand the different ways to deal with our ecosystem, reducing the destructive fire hazard and generating economy, ecological services and health.
The objective of this blog is to make visible relevant information for the cultivation of avocado trees from the north to the south of Portugal.
Introduction to strategies developed through centuries that, and in the present, work towards the permanent culture at Chão Sobral, and on the rocky and steep areas of the Goshawk Mountain range.
this is going to be a about 30 m3 shelter, planned and built with Permaculture design principles in mind, given the local eco-geological conditions and building materials on site and nearby region
working on perenial systems, more trees for more fruits and biomass. 2013 new start, working in Angola, to join the team that is teaching agriculture to young people.
original from Malawi, it has been translated to portuguese, it points to key functions of PC systems in places like Malawi
I'm looking forward to immerse in this Design Course led by Bernard Alonso - At an upcoming 'Permaculture Farm and Training Center' near Lisbon - Portugal
1 Opportunity to get involved in Permaculture and transition town work + 1 to work with the Children's Land Project
meeting with permaculture enthusiasts from Sweden, Finland, Danmark, Norway ...
Taking place on the 20 August in Sweden. I'm participating in this event to share about my permaculture experience in Portugal, with a special focus on the "learning with elders dynamics" i've been involved with in my hometown and in Aldeia das Amoreiras.
this structure was raised during one week, with the manual labor of 6 people, no electricity or machines were needed.
learning alternatives for low cost and low ecological impact shelters
treecrops cultures as basic strategies to mountain communities
the eco-construction takes it next step after the 2 previous superadobe and cordwood workshops in september 2011 and march 2012
introduction to permaculture course in the central mountains hamlet in Portugal
was launched recently the website of the Network that is creating a map of Portugal presenting projects that work towards sustainability
ongoing building project in central Portugal
17 workshops as the basic introduction to the Village Life Experience in the Goshawk mountains in Central Portugal
this is a small video made during a performance around the village on the "Association Member Day" - August 2011
Chão Sobral, "Ground of the cork trees", has been, for more than 500 years, a small village nestled between 600 and 700 meters altitude in the Açor Mountains, "Goshawk Mountains", which overlooks the "Estrela Mountains" and "Caramulo Mountains".
This will be a introductory workshop to permaculture design functions that will happen in 120 ha property near the Aljustrel mining dams (portuguese and english spoken)
Introduction and practical workshop in the deforested mountains of Algarve - South of Portugal
Guided tour in Chao Sobral, real life examples ...
The magic of community during the PDC experience in Mallorca
we hope this will be an opportunity to visit some of the oldest permacultures sites and learn from local teachers
Guided walk in Chão Sobral as an introduction to traditional village scale permanent culture
| Permaculture Design Course |
| Type: Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) course |
| Teacher: Doug Crouch |
| Location: Sintra |
| Date: Dec 2009 |
| Permaculture Design Course |
| Type: Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) course |
| Verifying teacher: Richard Perkins |
| Other Teachers: Darren J. Doherty, Julio Cantos |
| Location: Mallorca, Spain |
| Date: Sep 2011 |
| Regenerative Agriculture Workshop |
| Type: Other |
| Teacher: Darren J. Doherty |
| Location: Portugal |
| Date: Nov 2011 |
| Permaculture Teacher Training |
| Type: Teacher Training |
| Teacher: Rowe Morrow |
| Location: Lagos, Portugal |
| Date: Apr 2012 |
| Strawbale Building Workshop |
| Type: Other |
| Teacher: Catarina Pinto |
| Location: Fojo - Portugal |
| Date: Sep 2010 |
| Rammed Earth Building Workshop |
| Type: Other |
| Teacher: Paulo Costa |
| Location: Fojo - Portugal |
| Date: Sep 2010 |
| Leisure and Social Pedagogy |
| Type: Other |
| Verifying teacher: Lucilia Salgado |
| Other Teachers: António Leal, Teresa Cunha |
| Location: Coimbra - Portugal |
| Date: Oct 1999 |
| Ferrocement WaterTank Construction Workshop |
| Type: Other |
| Teacher: Maurício Umann |
| Location: Fojo - Portugal |
| Date: Jul 2011 |
| Superadobe Building Workshop |
| Type: Other |
| Teacher: Derek Hornor |
| Location: Seia - Portugal |
| Date: Jun 2010 |
| Solar Cookers Workshop |
| Type: Other |
| Verifying teacher: Celestino Ruivo |
| Other Teachers: Pedro Serrano |
| Location: Termas da Azenha - Portugal |
| Date: May 2008 |
| Tilling using Mule Traction |
| Type: Other |
| Verifying teacher: António da Rosa Celorindo |
| Other Teachers: Jorge Celorindo |
| Location: Aldeia das Amoreiras |
| Date: Feb 2012 |
| Low-Cost Solar HotWater Workshop |
| Type: Other |
| Teacher: Vítor Andrade |
| Location: Covas do Monte - Portugal |
| Date: Apr 2008 |
| Adobe Brick Construction Workshop |
| Type: Other |
| Teacher: Maurício Umann |
| Location: Fojo - Portugal |
| Date: Jul 2011 |
| Social Permaculture & Appropriate Technology in a Portuguese Village |
| Type: Internship |
| Teacher: André Vizinho |
| Location: Aldeia das Amoreiras - Portugal |
| Date: Apr 2011 |
| Sustainable Mountain Farming & Solidarity Economy, Leisure and Social Pedagogy Degree Internship |
| Type: Internship |
| Teacher: Vítor Andrade |
| Location: Projecto Criar Raízes - Covas do Monte - SPS Portugal |
| Date: Mar 2008 |
| Permaculture Design |
| Type: Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) course |
| Verifying teacher: Bernard Alonso |
| Other Teachers: Helder Valente, João Gonçalves |
| Location: Sesimbra - Portugal |
| Date: Nov 2012 |
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| 0 PRI PDC Graduates (list) |
| 0 Other Course Graduates (list) |
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| João Gonçalves has permaculture experience in: |
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| Warm Temperate |
| Mediterranean |
