Garden of Delights
O Edible garden Condô Cultural is an environment of connection with the organic cycles of the earth, with the seasons, with the neighboringand the people who frequent the space. We grow a variety of organic foods: vegetables, legumes, herbs, spices, medicinal products, fruit and PANC.
Deployed in 2020 in our backyardIt has an area of approximately 200m2 and is based on the principles of Agroforestry. This yard is in a constant process of transformation and the Jardim das Delícias is a permanent experimental laboratory to experience agroforestry processes in practice and exchange ideas about food, organic cultivation and composting. Setting up the garden was just the start of a cycle of care practices that inspire, teach and transform ways of living together. We continue as a Urgent Environmental Practices Laboratory (LUPA) and opened a Community Composting Point.
In order to broaden the exchanges and conversations about urgent and necessary eco-cultural practices, we propose actions connected to the Garden's proposal and the themes of the food sovereignty, healthy eating, growing food in the city, composting and climate change.
In 2021 we carried out a series of episodes on RadioTv Mundo Novosharing ideas and tips on planting, cultivation and composting. In 2022 the series Unthinkable Future tells us about the process of building the garden and the workshops we held on Agroforestry and Bioconstruction, as well as talking about the process of the Cultural Condô's existence since the project began in 2010.
In addition, we produce many seedlings for exchange with the neighborhood. Those who take their organic waste to the Community Composting Point you can also take a seedling home. And many more exchanges take place during these moments. Meeting people and talking a bit about the earth, our being on it, what we can do, how to act in a small but consistent way can change the world 🙂
A bit of our history
With the demolition of an adjoining building at the end of 2010, we gained heaven and earth and expanded our living area.
Until 2014, the backyard was the space that received the rubble from the renovations we were carrying out on the house, but it also never ceased to be the area for different actions, from feijoadas to artistic performances.
That same year we started a series of home organic gardening workshops where we built three beds and a circle of banana trees. We planted the lawn and began to grow trees. Some of them, like the jurubeba and the embaúba, grew on their own, like a gift from the birds. In 2019 we built a herb spiral and expanded the beds. Everything has been developing in the slow time of natural cycles and this is how we have built up our learning.
Since then, we have produced spinach, carrots, pumpkin, lettuce, rocket, fish, broccoli, onions, leeks, okra, cabbage, tomatoes, eggplants... lots of spices, medicinal herbs, PANC, as well as fruits such as guava, pitanga, blackberry and avocado.
At a time of deep social distancing, Géssica Arjona threw herself headlong into studying agroforestry and permaculture. She took a course with Bento Cruz at Universo da Floresta and was eventually offered a mentoring process. With the help of Eneida Sanches and Ulli Nalin, she designed the Jardim das Delícias project, an edible garden based on the principles of syntropic agriculture.
The land on which Condô stands today was once a school, maternity hospital and hospital, and in this construction it undergoes a great process of regeneration and healing. This land is cared for and nurtured so that we can make room for the abundance that only nature can provide.
Get to know our plants on the Herbarium page