João Gonçalves 's Profile

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Joined: 12/02/2011
Last Updated: 18/06/2011
Location: Chao Sobral (Serra do Açor, Portugal), Angola
Climate Zone: Warm Temperate
Gender: Male
Web site: permacultura-terras-altas.blogspot.com

My Projects
(projects i'm involved in)

Uniao Progressiva Chao Sobral

Chão Sobral, Portugal
Centro de Convergência

Aldeia das Amoreiras, Portugal
Mountain Steep Permaculture - Permacultura em Declive de Montanha

Chão Sobral, Portugal

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My Permaculture Qualifications

Permaculture Design Course
Type: Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) course
Teacher: Doug Crouch
Location: Sintra
Date: Dec 2009

Permaculture Design Course
Type: Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) course
Verifying teacher: Richard Perkins
Other Teachers: Darren J. Doherty, Julio Cantos
Location: Mallorca, Spain
Date: Sep 2011

Regenerative Agriculture Workshop
Type: Other
Teacher: Darren J. Doherty
Location: Portugal
Date: Nov 2011

Permaculture Teacher Training
Type: Teacher Training
Teacher: Rowe Morrow
Location: Lagos, Portugal
Date: Apr 2012

Strawbale Building Workshop
Type: Other
Teacher: Catarina Pinto
Location: Fojo - Portugal
Date: Sep 2010

Rammed Earth Building Workshop
Type: Other
Teacher: Paulo Costa
Location: Fojo - Portugal
Date: Sep 2010

Leisure and Social Pedagogy
Type: Other
Verifying teacher: Lucilia Salgado
Other Teachers: António Leal, Teresa Cunha
Location: Coimbra - Portugal
Date: Oct 1999

Ferrocement WaterTank Construction Workshop
Type: Other
Teacher: Maurício Umann
Location: Fojo - Portugal
Date: Jul 2011

Superadobe Building Workshop
Type: Other
Teacher: Derek Hornor
Location: Seia - Portugal
Date: Jun 2010

Solar Cookers Workshop
Type: Other
Verifying teacher: Celestino Ruivo
Other Teachers: Pedro Serrano
Location: Termas da Azenha - Portugal
Date: May 2008

Tilling using Mule Traction
Type: Other
Verifying teacher: António da Rosa Celorindo
Other Teachers: Jorge Celorindo
Location: Aldeia das Amoreiras
Date: Feb 2012

Low-Cost Solar HotWater Workshop
Type: Other
Teacher: Vítor Andrade
Location: Covas do Monte - Portugal
Date: Apr 2008

Adobe Brick Construction Workshop
Type: Other
Teacher: Maurício Umann
Location: Fojo - Portugal
Date: Jul 2011

Social Permaculture & Appropriate Technology in a Portuguese Village
Type: Internship
Teacher: André Vizinho
Location: Aldeia das Amoreiras - Portugal
Date: Apr 2011

Sustainable Mountain Farming & Solidarity Economy, Leisure and Social Pedagogy Degree Internship
Type: Internship
Teacher: Vítor Andrade
Location: Projecto Criar Raízes - Covas do Monte - SPS Portugal
Date: Mar 2008

Permaculture Design
Type: Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) course
Verifying teacher: Bernard Alonso
Other Teachers: Helder Valente, João Gonçalves
Location: Sesimbra - Portugal
Date: Nov 2012

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Climate Zones

João Gonçalves has permaculture experience in:

Warm Temperate
Mediterranean

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About João Gonçalves

I have been growing roots in the central Portugal mountains, in Chao Sobral, a 100 people hamlet standing on convex and ridge slopes.
To learn about our activities visit:
http://chaosobral.blogspot.com
http://chaosobral.org

Chao Sobral has been home of my parents and grand parents, for shepperds and peasants for + 5 centuries.
I've grown up participating in a subsistence mountain ridge polycultural farming system community.
Since 2008 I've a degree in Social Education and Community Development (Leisure and Social Pedagogy - Polytechnic Coimbra College of Education) and have been involved in permaculture hands on workshops & consulting work, and ecological construction, for projects all over Portugal.

In 2013 I intend to start working in Angola.

To learn more consider to open some of the following links.

Work/learning/leisure photos&video:

http://www.youtube.com/user/joaovox
http://www.youtube.com/user/upchaosobral
https://picasaweb.google.com/joaovox
https://picasaweb.google.com/uniprochaosobral
https://picasaweb.google.com/festerrar

Homy low-input-handmade-"traditional" agriculture, gardening in rural Portugal
http://agricultura-familiar-tradicional.blogspot.pt/

Promoting Permaculture in Malawi, slides
http://www.slideshare.net/joaovox

My homehamlet blog and association website
http://chaosobral.blogspot.com
http://chaosobral.org/

Related to my portfolio while studying at the college of education
http://jpmgoncalves.home.sapo.pt

About my internship in Covas do Monte, a mountain village in central Portugal, that used to have about 60 people and 1500 goats ...
http://agricultura-covas-do-monte.blogspot.com/

3 months volunteering, social technology work in Mozambique (with the Salesian Community- Parish and Schools)
http://mzsuztentavel.blogspot.com/

Hints to a enactive cognitive theory
http://enactive.do.sapo.pt/

Updates

1st Cycle of Meetings "Edible landscapes - Food forests and Agro-forestry in Fire-prone Landscape" in Chão Sobral

"Because we live in a gunpowder barrel ... " and we need to test practices, enacting knowledge and understand the different ways to deal with our ecosystem, reducing the destructive fire hazard and generating economy, ecological services and health.

Posted 1 day ago (0 comments)

Avocado Trees in Portugal blog start

The objective of this blog is to make visible relevant information for the cultivation of avocado trees from the north to the south of Portugal.

Posted 4 days ago (0 comments)

"On the Edge Permaculture"

Introduction to strategies developed through centuries that, and in the present, work towards the permanent culture at Chão Sobral, and on the rocky and steep areas of the Goshawk Mountain range.

Posted about 1 month ago (0 comments)

WANTED 2 volunteers to help build low cost eco-shelter 14-Feb-14-March

this is going to be a about 30 m3 shelter, planned and built with Permaculture design principles in mind, given the local eco-geological conditions and building materials on site and nearby region

Posted 4 months ago (1 comments)

the last tasks in 2012 and saying Ola Angola

working on perenial systems, more trees for more fruits and biomass. 2013 new start, working in Angola, to join the team that is teaching agriculture to young people.

Posted 5 months ago (1 comments)

Brief Concept Paper on Permaculture from Malawi, now in portuguese

original from Malawi, it has been translated to portuguese, it points to key functions of PC systems in places like Malawi

Posted 7 months ago (0 comments)

Permaculture Design Course in Portugal - 5-18 November 2012

I'm looking forward to immerse in this Design Course led by Bernard Alonso - At an upcoming 'Permaculture Farm and Training Center' near Lisbon - Portugal

Posted 7 months ago (1 comments)

2 Volunteers-Permaculture Wanted - Through European Volunteering Service

1 Opportunity to get involved in Permaculture and transition town work + 1 to work with the Children's Land Project

Posted 8 months ago (0 comments)

note on the nordic permaculture festival in Sweden

meeting with permaculture enthusiasts from Sweden, Finland, Danmark, Norway ...

Posted 8 months ago (0 comments)

Tribe Up - Sweden

Taking place on the 20 August in Sweden. I'm participating in this event to share about my permaculture experience in Portugal, with a special focus on the "learning with elders dynamics" i've been involved with in my hometown and in Aldeia das Amoreiras.

Posted 9 months ago (0 comments)

The Permaculture Research Institute of Australia