Banana Planting Mania

Bananas grow all year around, though much slower during the cooler periods, and they were one of our steady local food supplies. We set out to plant more banana circles especially near the house.

Hummingbird Chilling

Elegant Water Lily

Surrounded by Men

Underground Living Wild Bees

Hairy Chewing Caterpillar Mugshot

Hairy Caterpillar

Baking Our Own Bread

Compost & Soil Sprouting Experiment

The idea is to take two samples of soil that one knows to be good as the control and two samples of each of the soils / composts you would like to be testing.

Banana Crop Circles

Banana Plant Seedling

Creating Banana Circles

Digging Holes to Capture Water

Digging Trenches to Capture Water

African Keyhole, Expanding Our Kitchen Garden

we built something called an African Keyhole which was to become the new addition to our kitchen garden

Light It Up, Creating A Fast Cooker

So as a little side project I planned to make a small stove aka fast cooker

Juçara, Climbing for the Grapes of the Jungle

For the next few weeks, with a lot of practice, I spent developing an effective and safe way to climb the palm trees to get juçara / acai

Indaiá’s Hard Nuts to Crack

Among the many palm trees there is a very large one called Indaiá & they produce incredibly heavy bunches of hundreds of small coconuts all year around

Our Tribe Is On The Move

In short, we have decided to move away from Capijuma aka Dark Stone Bromelias to a 24ha property that belongs to my family

What Tribal Simplicity Means

tribal simplicity represents a lifestyle that embraces the nature bound simplicity of our tribal ancestors infused with present day knowledge