Food ForestsMulti-day intensive

Agroforestry & Water Harvesting Intensive

Monte Verde · Lagos, Portugal

Eight days reading a dry landscape and reshaping it to hold water and grow trees, on 120 hectares of Algarve hillside.

Survey and mark keyline and swalesPlant a food forest along new water linesSet up silvopasture for trees and grazing

What you'll learn

Read a landscape for water and slope
Design swales, ponds, and keyline
Establish trees that survive the dry season

What the land gains

Swales and a pond built to harvest winter rain
A drought-resilient food forest planted

The host site

Monte Verde

120 hectares of Algarve hillside, coming back to life

A vast stretch of the western Algarve, once worn thin by drought and fire, is being rebuilt into a mosaic of food forest, cork oak, and pasture. The Atlantic is a short walk away and water is the daily lesson.

Your teacher

Yusuf Demir

Agroforestry & water designer

4.9 · 47 reviews · 13 yrs teaching