Todo se siembra
Everything can be seeded

31 October — 3 November 2024

As part of our residency series Thinking with a garden in autumn 2024 we have planted the first seeds of the forest garden of Foresta, while hosting Jaime Otero Páramo, founder of Proyecto Dispersor in Galicia, where he has been designing and cultivating forest gardens and spreading knowledge about regenerative agroforestry since 2017.

Everything can be seeded, absolutely everything! So what are seeds? What is a forest? How can a forest be a regenerative food system? What is an agroforestry nest? This residency unfurled within the ethics of attentive multispecies conviviality and offered a workshop covering the basics of envisioning, designing, seeding and planting a forest garden, in philosophical and practical terms. Such subjects as preparing the soil, democracy of natural energy and ecosystem dynamics, neoindigenism and the human role within the ecosystem, were touched.

The public talk and an open conversation after the workshop revolved around subjects connected to deep ecology and an understanding of landscape as an ingredient for a change of social and political consciousness, also touching on subjects connected to sustainability in agricultural practices, care for the landscapes that sustain us, and pathways to navigate human transition towards an ecologically regenerative living.

Here you can find more info about our research into forest gardens, and watch or listen to the video podcast episode with Jaime here.

Gardener-in-residence

Proyecto Dispersor is a social project, inspired by and allied with the seeds, based on the philosophy of the common good, the search for harmony and abundance. It aims to investigate, learn, integrate, practice and transmit agronomic knowledge and agroecological practices in relation with others. The project understands itself as part of a global regenerative movement, advocated by agroecology, permaculture and successional agriculture.

Images: Foresta Collective, visiting Proyecto Dispersor at EAV (Estación Agroecológica de Vieiro)