' 🫘 The Redemption Hill Agroecosystem: A Pilot Laboratory of Cyberstigmergy

About:

Redemption Hill is situated in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, in the mountains of Mantiqueira and in the border of Ibitipoca State Park. Minas Gerais is a state full of small rural towns, each one autonomous with its own production of meat, alcohol and milk production 🐄

Since colonization, monocultures and the destruction of the forests and indigenous culture shaped the societies of this state. Nowadays the state still has a significant rural population, that has been suffering the effects of rural exodus for almost 100 years. We respect their traditional agriculture and are aligning the syntropic nests and biomass management along with the rice, corn, peanuts and beans production 🌾

It's way too common in Minas that many of the younger generations don't want to continue the dairy management of the small family farm, but lack the means and connections to establish productive and regenerative uses of the land, and often lease it to cattle ranchers. The Hill local multisig is composed by the Siblings Tatiane e Tarcisio Oliveira and Diogo Jorge as mentor. Together with Augusta, her mother they care very well for us workers. The rest of the family also helps out during high activity moments.

Tatiane and Dona Augusta

Family receiving tools gifted by the$EARTH coin project

🌱 The concept of community agriculture is something unusual today, but that existed before colonization, indigenous tribes managed intergenerational food forests that were able to generate enough resources and sustain the tribe with enough seeds to keep cultivating the common wealth.

Redemption Hill is an experiment to revive community agriculture in the 21st century. Locally, we are becoming a showcase of Food Forest oriented not to the local market, but to the local, regional and global communities. Purposeful communities value moments, experiences, relations, dedication, diversity, density, quality, and services for multiplication of systems, for biomass production, for culture building, etc. Many of these interactions and qualities can be attested onchain.

In return, besides grains, roots, fruits, knowledge and social ties, the Lab is prototypes agroecological web3 primitives such as Beans Vouchers, the Banana Splits for recognition tokens, and the Redemption Nests NFTs, to fund the co-stewardship of nests.

This year we hosted a local and a regional school, and hosted an experience of agroforestry, rural living and... tech! We believe rural tech is not only IOT devices, AI or precision agriculture, but also community building.

We also try to bring a contemplative experience of seasonality to the online tech and ReFi community (usually young urban dwellers, that are building the digital tools for regeneration, but that lack long term successional experiences), by sharing Redemption Hill news.

The Hill has provided ingredients for 2 traditional meals that we organize in Rio de Janeiro together with local web3 communities such as ReRe and Rio Crypto Hub, during ETH Rio.

🌴 Redemption Hill Goals:

1. To establish lines with forest species for the production of biomass, wood and fruits.

2. To produce annual crops between shrub and green manure lines

3. To serve as a p2p rooted laboratory and engage with local schools and with AgroforestDAO

4. To pay costs of managing the system during the rainy season from November to March

5. To launch a second cohort of apprentices in February 2025

6. To organize regional events with members of AgroforestDAO

7. To enjoy the rainy season, share content and celebrate the harvests in community

🐝🐝🐝 Here's the first cohort of AgroforestDAO apprentices...

... building profiles in our Charmverse Workspace 🐜 🐜 🐜

🙏 Thank you so much for the opportunity to coordinate with Ma Earth and the Biome Trust 🫘🌱🍌🐜🐝🌾🌴