**PURAVIDAonline**

This season of Puravidaness has now come to a close. The last six months have been eventful and wonderful, full of challenges. The farm now has a basic infrastructure with a water system providing water on top of the hill thanks to the worlds first floating RAM pump and extended permaculture gardens providing pumpkins, tomatoes, cucumber, lettuce, rocket, sweet potatoes, mandioca and herbs. A wide variety of fruit trees have been planted all around the hill such as papaya, goiaba, mango and banana.

The farm now also counts with two functioning rocket stoves. We have also made a rocket stove together with Vera and Ivan in their house so that they are now able to spread the knowledge of how to build a simple but energy efficient stove with materials all available on the land.
All houses have had decorations from visiting artists- we have two decorative black boards, a rainbow snake covering the whole of one room and a mural on the communal house featuring cacao, flowers, waterfalls and capoeira that has been a collaborative effort between various visitors.

This season has been culturally rich with theatre workshops, performances, arts projects and roda’s de capoeira, all involving the local families and the surrounding community.
We have had several long term visitors who have become part of the Puravida family and have all contributed significantly in their own ways. A big massive THANK YOU to ALL of you who came and helped and made our time there very special. Some of you were there for a week, others for four or five months, everyones presence was equally important and appreciated.

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