VIVENCIAS DE INCENSO DO CERRADO

Curso Extração Óleos Essenciais e Preparação de Incensos

 

ONDE: São Gonçalo do Rio das Pedras, Minas Gerais, Brasil

QUANDO: Tempo de chuva, novembro 2013

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Skies of Minas Gerais, on the way North
 

Roadside stand - peppers, fruit, juices, free range eggs, sugar cane brandy and more

Ancient "paineira" (chorisia sp.) and young author - main plaza Sao Goncalo do Rio das Pedras

Pousada Refugio dos Tres Amigos, Sao Goncalo do Rio das Pedras

Curcuma zedoaria
 

Marcos Guiao and participants

GOLD - compost

Heirloom corn

Field learning and exchanges

Staff

Pequi fruit (Caryocar brasiliense)

Rainha do Cerrado/ Queen of the Highlands



Collection of Sao Jose grasses for essential oil extraction



Malva and field learning

Banana flower - excellent in cough syrup, also in salads




Horsetail or Cavalinha (equisetum sp.) -ancient plant propagated by spores



Carqueja (Baccharis genistelloides)

Palm tree

Sunflower

Lobo lobo used in natural artisanal incense manufacturing

Marcos Guiao explaining essential oils in a blade of grass

The newly completed essential oils house



Double distillation  - Capim Nago ou Sao Jose and lavender

Capim nago (Nago grass) and lavender



Me and the cows

Meeting space and seed bank

End of classes - beauty spa

Seed saving

Pequi tree and joy