[ fundamentos da agrofloresta ]
Earth · Agroforestry
Introduction to Atlantic Forest Agroforestry
The foundational principles of the Kilombo's agroforestry system — ecology, soil, succession, and the logic of the forest as teacher.
Agroforestry as memory, ecology as resistance.
The Kilombo Tenondé agroforestry system is grounded in the traditions of Afro-Brazilian land stewardship — the quilombo as a model of fugitive ecology, where land was worked not to extract but to sustain. Over thirty years, the team has rebuilt degraded Atlantic Forest into a productive, biodiverse agroforest supporting cacao, cinnamon, clove, dendê palm, jackfruit, and more than forty other species.
The Earth pillar courses teach the principles behind this system: soil ecology, tree succession, integration of food production and forest restoration, and the philosophical underpinnings of a non-extractive relationship with land.
This is not permaculture in the European sense — it is a practice rooted in a specific place, specific histories, and specific communities. That particularity is part of the lesson.