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 |