Land Management Consulting
If you are looking to connect with a piece of land, create a land based project, reduce your family's ecological foot print and increase the beauty and productivity around you, or if you are just now planning to settle in the Algarve, approaching nature through deep observation can help access relevant information for sustainable land management.
Recognizing the importance of the land and what it means for you, will help you think strategically about enhancing and protecting your land resources.
Arturo & Daphna of Naturaleza are qualified Permaculture designers and teachers. They have created & built together their own ecological home and surrounding, and have been running Naturaleza sustainably for the last 13 years. Together they’ve been working and designing projects on ecological farms and homes, taught permaculture courses and internships around Israel and Portugal, and take part in coordinating and mentoring in the Living & Learning Cooperative educational project.
See more of their experience & qualifications below
What Can Naturaleza Help You Plan?
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Reforestation: Recovering forested areas destroyed in recent times (by natural
causes such as fires or monocultures) collaborating with natural succession, improving soil capacity and planting new trees.
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Seeding water in the landscape: Maximizing the beneficial use of water resources in the land and the catching and storing of rainwater and underground water.
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Building soil: Applying soil improving techniques that will support healthy plant growth and thriving ecosystems.
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Forest gardening: Establishing a low maintenance, sustainable plant based food production based on woodland ecosystems.
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Gray water systems: Planning and Implementing physical and biological systems to treat gray water for beneficial uses such as irrigation, wetlands, etc.
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Irrigation systems: Analyzing and choosing the best option to satisfy the demand.
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Natural building: Identifying alternatives to conventional building based on local knowledge, such as light straw, mud bricks, straw bales combined with wood frame,As well as creating designs for a “climate-house” - buildings which communicate with their environment to create sufficient energy use.
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Solar systems: Off grid alternative to satisfy your energy demand.
More about Arturo and Daphna:
Arturo studied environmental management in the University of Business & Social Sciences in Buenos Aires, and is a qualified permaculture designer, and has completed a Bio Earthship Construction course in Guimaraes , Portugal.
He has collaborated in the development of community supported agriculture in the Bolivian Amazon, participated in creating a self-sufficient farm in Panama, was part of the pioneers of the local permaculture farm Várzea da Gonçala, and has worked around the Algarve with Terracrua, a permaculture design group developing sustainable landscaping and households. He also taught permaculture in the International School of Aljezur.
Daphna has spend three years in communal service in the ecological educational farm Hava & Adam in Israel, where she studied permaculture and was trained as a permaculture teacher. She received her PC diploma from the Gaia University of the US. She completed an Aromatherapy course in Ran Herbs Apothecary in Israel, and has had much experience cultivating and using medicinal plants, turning this knowledge 13 years ago into a thriving herbal remedies and plant connection business based in south west Portugal, Naturaleza. She is experienced with natural building projects, educational-environmental designs, sustainable gardens & education.
