Flores Fruit Farm Permaculture Goals 1. Food 2. Water 3. Energy 4. Shelter 5. Transportation 6. Security 7. Future 8. Be an example 9. Time 10. Commerce FOOD Our primary goal is to produce enough high quality food to maintain our family’s health and vitality for ourselves and future generations. The first step in this process is the acquisition of suitable land for cultivation. This is accomplished by submersing ourselves into the local ecosystem and studying the interactions of weather with landscape features. After making a thorough investigation over several cycles of seasons, it becomes clear what areas can support the various varieties of edible foods. It also becomes clear what elements of the landscape can be removed to allow more sunlight to penetrate into the proposed farm site. After the acquisition of land, we must remove and reshape it to accommodate cultivation. This is the mo
Building an edible jungle on the Island of Flowers in the Azores