Dec
12
2011
Hyper Adobe Workshop Photos Posted!
Just posted a photo album from the Hyper Adobe weekend workshop. Check it out in the photos section.
Dec
04
2011
Tiba: A Day in the Life
A typical weekday at Tibá starts with a 6:30 AM breakfast. This meal is a mixture of nuts and roasted oats mixed with homemade yogourt. There are fresh fruits, from the garden, forest, and sometimes from town. There is an effort that anything bought in town is organic, but this isn’t always possible. After breakfast , Peter, Johan’s son delegates the day’s tasks which begin at 7AM.
Here there are no ‘formal lessons’, each day there is work to be done, and so when a task presents itself, someone teaches us how to perform the task. The tasks fall under two main categories: bio-construction and organic agriculture.
In chronological order, here are some of the things I’ve been doing: dragging down some cut trees from the top of hillside and bring them down by dragging them down with a rope, skinning trees (removing their bark) to make them more durable, gardening, cooking (baking bread from scratch), making a foundation for an earth bag wall, and rendering adobe walls. During these tasks I’m learning how to construct a house without concrete and using sustainable resources. I’m learning about some types of medicinal plants, as well as gardening/permaculture techniques.
At 11AM we stop for lunch. All meals here are vegetarian and delicious. Usually there is a salad made with vegetables found in our garden, a dish made who’s principle ingredient is something found in our garden and finally rice a beans which are usually bought in town. Unfortunately our climate is not one suited for growing rice and beans.
We don’t go back to work until 1pm, then we put in another four hours of solid work, grab a bite to eat at 5pm and the rest of the day we have off.
Over the weekends, there are sometimes courses which go on which we can attend on our time off. Saturday we put in 4 hours of work and Sunday is a day off. The courses thus far have been great. Last week I did the hyper-adobe workshop, which I’ll describe in a later post…and I’ll also post up some pictures from this workshop. This weekend I did a workshop on meditation and using both beta and alpha parts of the brain with Johan, I’ll also talk about this is more detail in another blog entry.
That is a typical day/week in a nutshell… In the next blog entries I’ll go into details about some of lessons I’ve gained through our tasks, workshops and conversations.
Dec
02
2011
Tiba photos added!
Just added some photos of Tibá. Click on the 'Photos' link above. Or simply go here:
http://philbrazil.blogspot.com/p/photos.html
http://philbrazil.blogspot.com/p/photos.html
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