Petrera Permaculture Land

The goal of Petrera is to become an educational demonstration centre where permaculture principles and ethics are applied for the land’s design and constant amelioration. It’s the place where we harvestand save our water and energy, produce our food, create soil and enjoy living the outdoors. Petrera also aims to educate those interested in natural living and many times we’ve organized educational experiences where people who join the action receive instructional guidelines and then get a hands-on experience.

Organizing nature-connection events such as the annual running event “Run for Seeds” isanother priority of Petrera. We’ve been organising this race for the last two years with the aim of bringing awareness to the significance of saving and using our heirloom and open-pollinated seed varieties.

According to seasonality and the each-time open project we also welcome people interested to volunteer and learn while doing, whether it’s preparing regenerative vegetable beds, turning the compost, setting up wicking beds or building a compost toilet. Slowly but steadily the goal is to become a bright example of how resilient and self-reliant one can become by applying permaculture principle to the design of one’s land and life and we hope to inspire more people to go back home and do the same and much more, shaking and transforming bit by bit our current reality.