**PURAVIDAonline**

Autumn has now arrived in Bahia, tropical rain showers replace intermittent hot sunshine, turning roads into mud slides and tripling the gardens in size.
And talking about water, our watering systems are now all up an running. The floating RAM pump experiment ( possibly the only floating RAM pump in the world!) has been working sucessfully for several weeks now. We have subsequently installed a huge water tank and watering systems, including a watering can shower amongst the banana trees and a zen stone art installation with a little flow of water.

The theatre workshops culminated successfully in a performance for the whole community. The mums and the dads and the whole football team came to watch the kids perform their own story of the Fazendero, his wife, his lover and the chicken thief.

The Puravida crew also took the opportunity to make a play based around their perceptions of eco tourism, waste, consumption and the gringo´s arrival in chocolate paradise. The old ladies squeeked with laughter and everything finished with a fire show and lots of chocolate for everyone.

The rocket stove has been rocket fuel for the last weeks, working like a wonder. We have now found a perfect source of really good clay and have started building one at Vera´s house together with the family.

The last few weeks we have spent lots of time with the workers discussing the future of the Fazenda, talking contracts and the possible association with the CABRUCA cooperative which we are visiting together this Friday.

We also had a brief addition to the Puravida family when Jose brought back his daughter Dani who had been severly mistreated by her mother in Ubaitaba. Dani came to live with us for a few weeks and we started the process together with Jose to apply for custody. While waiting for Brazilian bureaucracy to happen, Danieli~s mother came and took her back to Ubaitaba. We are now working to get the custody for Dani to allow her to come and live on the farm again.

published by elinzinha