pArt
Paisagismo
Regenerativo
& Terapêutico
para escolas, creches, clínicas e iniciativas culturais
Sitioart
WHAT IS ART??
ART: Agriculture Regenerative Tropical
In Brotherhood with Trees = gentle agroforestry
Return of the Trees … into the fields, arranged in strips
Easy to manage, even with agriculture machinery
Regenerative Fertilizers are:
- RCW = ramial chipped wood;
- DGM = dense green manure;
- BLH = broad-leaf-herbs (beneficial herbs).
To enhance Water Residency
- Minor losses through evaporation
- Greater Water Holding Capacity of Soils
- Wind-shading Agroforestry strips.
PRACTICAL ISSUES OF ART
Agroforestry Organism: 7 issues
= management for full soil fertility.
= inhibition of tropical grasses.
= integrated pest management.
= natural healthy crops management.
= sparing water management.
= healthy, mineralized, vitalized food.
= training: young talents for agriculture
The organism is back on stage (Goethe)
METHODOLOGY
Why focus on Trees for hot regions?
Correspondence: ruminants & planetary trees
New strategy, similar benefits, more resilient.
Carbon: the great sculptor, carrier of all life.
Vitality of landscapes, of agriculture within it!
Tropics is a place to learn
- Agriculture of Tomorrow ... heat resistant!
- Emergency agriculture and food supply (water sparing skills)
MUTUALISM IN AGRICULTURE
Tropical forests as stage for purest mutualism and cooperation (every species helps others).
- Small animals communities mutual support.
- Rudolf Steiner: "Mutual help and not struggle (for survival) is the main factor of evolution”.
- Remarkable Mutualism has evolved tropical forests as a place where life grows 'together'.
- Cooperation & Networking in tropical forests, inspires ART = Polyculture in crops.
- ART is researching new combinations of companion plants & beneficial weeds.
EMERGENCY AGRICULTURE:
- To maintain food-security, we need more creativity
- How can we learn from the tropics? Acquire a new doing?
- Tropics as landscape laboratory for a world of tomorrow
- ART offer's creative solutions that bring us through the challenges.
- Agriculture needs time, can’t change that quickly!
= Let’s start training programs in due time.
ANTHROPOSOPHY & Goethean Scientific View
- Windbreak Forest Strips & Landscape design.
- Photosynthesis & protection of transpiration.
- Invisible wind: must be controlled, conducted.
- Saving Water for crops, trees and cattle.
- Planetary influences: Trees on the fields.
- rising healthy and productive crops.
- Planetary spheres: creative design on differentiated landscapes. No schedule.
COOPERATION IN RESEARCH & COURSES
- ART as an open source of innovations
- Partnership allows new research & development, supports the open source.
- Be the rain too! Irrigating our work with your donation.
- Together we regenerate a better future.
- ART can provide lectures, courses and a training program.
Who
inspires
us?
- The evolutionary work of Lynn Margulis, which rises to Symbiogenesis as a stronger evolutionary process than natural selection. Symbiogenesis= emergence of the new by the symbiosis of two or more organisms.
- The Anthroposophy developed by Rudolf Steiner, which brings us a regenerability with spirituality, as in his evolutionary vision for PEACE, praising the cooperation between living beings as a major evolutionary vector.
- Goethe’s scientific view, that reveals the landscapes as a living and unique organism, helps us to understand the specific needs of each one. Every landscape, a different management.
- The intuitive and practical experience of Ernst Goetsch, creator of a special type of agroforest, the so called “Agrofloresta”. That is, the first phase of his work, done in Bahia, by de-savannization.
- The researchers of IAC / IAPAR / EPAGRI offering variety of options of green manuring and biomass production.
- The indigenous tradition that insists on the known consortia (pumpkin, corn, beans, manioc), is inspiring new polycultures within horti-fruti crops (cooperative companion plants). It is up to the broad leaf spontaneous herbs to fill the biological voidness.
TEAM
Eng. Agr.
Antonio Parra
Antônio is an agronomist, he has worked extensively with R&D and is now dedicated to consulting in organic agriculture and strategic planning, with experience in project management. His specialization in soil management and a master's degree in agroecology and rural development help a lot in raising questions for new lines of research, here at Sítio-Escola ART.
Eng. Agr.
Antonio Parra
Antônio is an agronomist, he has worked extensively with R&D and is now dedicated to consulting in organic agriculture and strategic planning, with experience in project management. His specialization in soil management and a master's degree in agroecology and rural development help a lot in raising questions for new lines of research, here at Sítio-Escola ART.
Eng. Agr.
Antonio Parra
Antônio is an agronomist, he has worked extensively with R&D and is now dedicated to consulting in organic agriculture and strategic planning, with experience in project management. His specialization in soil management and a master's degree in agroecology and rural development help a lot in raising questions for new lines of research, here at Sítio-Escola ART.
Eng. Agr.
Antonio Parra
Antônio is an agronomist, he has worked extensively with R&D and is now dedicated to consulting in organic agriculture and strategic planning, with experience in project management. His specialization in soil management and a master's degree in agroecology and rural development help a lot in raising questions for new lines of research, here at Sítio-Escola ART.
Boardmembers
Sueli Solomon
Board of Directors
Sueli is a business administrator, graduated in Social Work,
at PUC/SP. She has worked in a retail bank for a long time, and shared experiences in social movements in neighborhoods. She is interested in contributing to initiatives that open perspectives to small producers, combining ecological and economic sustainability and family farming, producing with quality and fair price.
Lucas Pedroso
Lucas holds a degree in Design from Mackenzie Presbyterian University and a degree in Social Sciences from UNESP/SP. Throughout his journey, he dedicated himself to social activism in peripheral neighborhoods of São Paulo. Starting in 2018, he began teaching at Waldorf schools. Today, he works at the Waldorf Moara School in Brasília as a Pedagogical Assistant.
