Food Forests
Ecology in Mértola’s Schools
Seeding Future Regeneration
Food Forests is a flagship project bringing regenerative education to five public primary schools in Mértola. In partnership with the Municipality, Terra Sintrópica plants the seeds of a more resilient future by leading more than 180 hands-on sessions each year.
Through farming and gardening, children reconnect with the region’s traditions and discover a renewed sense of belonging to the land they call home. As they sow, water, harvest, and “chop and drop,” they learn not only how ecosystems work, but how their own care can help heal them.
By involving children, families, teachers, staff, and local partners, Food Forests fosters collective transformation and sparks an agroecological transition rooted in caring for the land—and for each other—across generations.
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“The food forest is a living laboratory that stimulates the autonomous observation of nature, in which children plant, care for, harvest, and eat the results of their cultivation. Students do not learn merely how to make a garden; they learn to confront and, above all, to reverse the environmental impacts of our society. It is an opportunity to promote an education in the service of developing sustainable human communities.”(in Life in Syntropy.org)
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