Working group with the help of extensionist Aline de Souza.
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Summary
The project proposes an alternative and sustainable way to produce sustainable food, different from traditional community crops and seasonal milk production. Small family farmers still work conventionally using agrochemicals in food production, thus contaminating the soil and water and with a serious risk of intoxication, harming their own health. The main objectives are to develop an alternative source of income for the farmers involved in the project; to disseminate a more sustainable model of production to other family farmers and students of the rural settlements; to produce agroecological products and to provide an option for a pesticide-free work. It is hoped to establish 10 meters of a mandala garden, with eight beds that will in future be divided according to the crops being cultivated and with cultivable of short, medium and long term; an irrigation system and, at the center, an aviary of quails. The idea is that this garden will also function as demonstration unit. ELTI provided a series of field visits where a design was made and a list of materials developed.