Our well-being is connected to the balance of the different areas that make up our lives, such as work, social relationships, family, and groups we belong to. But cultivating the land also has a positive impact on physical and mental health and simultaneously represents a political act. Contact with nature and the communal aspect have a therapeutic effect, reminding us of what is inherent in humans: a social and creative being, traits that are diminished in the materialistic, individualistic, and consumer-oriented society in which we live. During participatory agriculture events, we offer training from soil to body, agroecological teachings, methods on agroforestry systems, fertilizer production using local resources, food cultivation, and the creation of new recipes. In contrast to shopping at the supermarket, where we mostly eat with our eyes and consume products that only satisfy us mentally rather than nourish our bodies, we search for the superfoods that grow in the Amazon, harvesting what the earth gives: powerful carbohydrates that can not only replace imported Portuguese potatoes and rice, but also give us more health, access, and freedom.

As Hippocrates once said: “Let food be thy medicine, and medicine be thy food.”