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terça-feira, 3 de dezembro de 2013

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





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


domingo, 7 de julho de 2013

VIVENCIAS DE PLANTAS MEDICINAIS 1 - SAO GONCALO DO RIO DAS PEDRAS

I just returned from a fantastic trip to Sao Goncalo do Rio das Pedras, in Minas Gerais, Brasil  to participate in a wonderful workshop with Marcos Guiao - medicinal plants from the high savannas of the "cerrado". / Acabo de voltar de uma viagem fantastica a Sao Goncalo do Rio das Pedras como participante de um curso maravilhoso de vivencias de plantas medicinais do cerrado com Marcos Guiao.



Great Brazilian busses

Bus depot - Cops on wheels/ Rodoviaria -policia com rodas

Great design, tasty food

Main plaza with Paineira -  Chorizia sp., renamed Ceiba sp.

Cathedral

Bullshit, quite prevalent among politicians

Sunrise and internets

Tire repair shop


Water tank and roses

Wall flowers

Mule and cathedral

The Inn of the Refuge of the Five Friends

Views

Us at work preparing plants for distillation of essential oils (Rosmaninho)

Happiness

Views


Lycopodium

Cinzeiro - Vochisia rufa

Extracting essential oils from grasses and herbs




Bee hives?


Semprevirens

Lichens and rocks

Bird on Pau de Santo (Guiacum sp.)

Me