almond´s blog

  Before I watched the video, I didn´t know much about Permaculture, I saw some posts about it, comparations explaining the difference between permaculture´s and agriculture´s practices. I understood agriculture as a system that affects the environment, soil, communities, and the biodiversity around, since it uses pesticides and fertilizers. Instead, permaculture is a type of cultivation that respects the nature where it is being applied, seeing that it does not provide toxics to help the development of the crop. The food forest could be a great cropping system for people who lives in the woods or has the enough space to do it, I don’t think this can be used properly in Santiago, for example. There are not so many places to implement it here. This would be a better option than planting trees and plants that don’t provide food, if that’s the purpose of the person who is working on it. Also, it seems more productive, as it uses completely the area. I don’t know if this is a great...

 Hi guys, I hope you are all safe!! I haven´t left my house since a long time ago, except for health issues, but my parents still go to work, so I don´t feel so disconnected from the outside. For me the hardest part has been distancing from my family and friends, I haven´t seen them since February, I went to USA and when I came back, I had to isolate for two weeks, and Santiago was just going into quarantine. At the beginning I was not worried about the virus, in Florida, the place I was, they didn’t care about it; nobody was wearing a mask, washing their hands, or keeping distance. The local media didn’t even share news about it, but there was a moment when everything explode… Everybody was trying to get hand sanitizers and cleaning stuff; I freaked out because I felt so expose. On my way back I was worried I´ll test positive, there was a lot of protocols in the airport, workers taking your temperature and I had a fever; I was scared they´ll take me somewhere else, when i just had...