Our own pulse beats in every stranger's throat
and also there within the flower-covered soil beneath our feet;
We can hear it in the water, in wood, even in stone.
We are earth of this earth and we are bone of its bone
Barbara Deming
(music theme playing)
"Triangle of life"
Come on over here!
There's no one else now, is there? Everybody's here.
Narrator We are in Pitanga, previously a sugar estate, an hour from Olinda
This machete stuck in the ground and a saw, that is on its way, are the only tools used by Jones
a forest-taught farmer.
In front of him a group of agronomy students
from the the Federal Institute of Agronomy of Pernambuco
listen to his talk, attentively!
A leaf falls.
the role of this plant's leaf is not yet over;
it will feed a multitude of lives,
and this well-nourished leaf-life is going to be transformed into the food of this 'central life'
For those of us who work with foodforestry, the main life is this one: the soil.
Narrator They came from the town of Barreiros to hear Jones Pereira
the farmer who harvests over ten tonnes of foodstuffs per year
from a single hectare of land.
In the conventional system, what protection is given to this life here?
From an agro-ecological point of view, can it really be necessary to destroy all of this in order to plant a single crop?
Or might just a little management do the job?
The rain that falls here, stays right here.
We push back the forest litter, and see the soil is moist.
Water represents life, right?
What living creature can live without water?
In a natural soil, in the forest, we can see that it is all protected.
You cannot see the earth.
you have to move the natural groundcover to be able to see...see this soil
it provides a form of protection with a series of objectives
thanks to this protection several problems are avoided, such as? Erosion, right?
Erosion provoked by the wind, the rains...? And by the sun, don't you think?
And, besides this, it guarantees greater humidity for the plants.
In other words, just through one little lesson it provides, it shows a great many advantages.
this agricultural model
seeks to balance the economic development of the rural population
with conservation of the environment
Pest control. What about in here?..
there must be some kind of pest, but is one in control here?
Which kills everything? Nobody sees that.
Why? In here that balance is created,
there is always one plant benefitting another, helping another, one animal helping another.
In the soil itself, whatever is in the top layer,
perhaps goes after nutrients in the deepest soil
and brings them to the surface to feed something else that grows less.
So there's always one helping the other,
but in our farming methods, in conventional or modern agriculture, it is all the other way round;
if you look in a spot like this, sometimes there are more than ten kinds of different plants
so why on my plot does it have to be a monoculture of just one variety?
That's what generally happens, right?
When it's maize, it's just maize, when it's beans, just beans; manioc, just manioc.
It is rare to find two crops: usually it is just one plant.
Why in my plot do I have to leave it looking like a backyard? All swept and clean?
That's what we see in the fields, isn't it?
And often after hoeing, they even make piles in a spot like this to burn the stuff.
Can our knowledge be greater than Mother Nature's?
If in her plot she is saying, let's plant diversity,
let's plant in several different layers, let's keep the soil covered...? And here we are doing everything to the contrary!
Every year worldwide,
50mil square km of land are lost,
an area the equivalent of Costa Rica
currently, 33% of the global land area has already been lost
The soil that was this, became this:
a huge difference.
And what caused it? Simply the farming approach.
If I plant here, I'm not going to plant just thinking of myself.
When the guy prepared this area and planted this manioc, who was he thinking about?
Just himself.
There is that question of planning
I'm going to arrive on my plot and look at the soil
– in the current state of this soil, what can it produce?
– and introduce fertilizing plants at the same time.
I can bring my cropseed and talk to it; I'm going to ask it, What do you need, to produce well here?
And I'll offer my plant whatever it needs.
And what will be required?
I'm going to do a plan and a map of my area.
What am I going to plant? Plan what it is that I'm going to plant there and draw it on the map.
I am going to plant crops that aren't going to feed me directly
but since soil is a living being, which also needs feeding, I'll plant things that feed the soil also.
In our foodforest there, initially there were a lot of ups and downs,
but now we can already see so many different things there
Including the return of the animals themselves,
finding a suitable environment.
(second music theme playing)
Narrator This work involves and strengthens the whole family.
Lenir Ferreira, Jones' wife is a vital part of this process;
amongst other tasks, it is at Jones' side and with her friendliness that she sells the products
harvested and processed in the marketplace in the suburb of Graças, on Saturdays in Recife.
Is it one with jackfruit you want?
I've eaten one already...I want to take some home
My role in the production is in the processing.
It adds to the durability and value of each product.
Our procuction here is with banana. There are various kinds, It is the variety of production, of fruits:
there is banana, açaí, cocoa, we have mango trees, hog plum (cajá), jackfruit, mangoes cashew, and star fruit.
This all in the appropriate season, when there is fruit.
They will be stewed, as a kind of compote, or turned into liqueur and jam.
Any product here, made into compote, will last for six months.
That's what we allow for, but I know it lasts longer than that.
And what we eat, we also pass on, safely, with our guarantee, and that is priceless!
Narrator This is Luciano Lira, agronomist, consumer of Dona Lenir's jackfruit pasty,
he believes it has been essential to opt for an organic diet,
in his recuperation from cancer treatement
and today, with his little drum,
he plays and sings in the street market, for whoever wants to hear and dance.
And these clients for us today, they have become a family alongside us.
And this is also priceless.
The friendship, the affection that they demonstrate,
makes us do this with much more love and pleasure.
It's brought lots of good things, lots of positive energy
freedom in the first place, right?
The freedom, of having my own production;
my self-esteem improved.
With my own money: I began to have my own spending money.
And even like this, with the family together, we still have our own part, right?
And this has only brought good things, and quality of life, chiefly.
It is not a farming approach that you learn in the classroom;
it is about putting things into practice.
Very often you cannot find this: there are few teachers who are open-minded
and will bring a group of pupils out like this.
Where this should really happen is in the universities...
They could have models to show a form of agriculture where the professional
when he leaves, goes out with a mind towards this approach also.
English subtitles: Sarah Bailey
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