Sowing Water

Reconciling sustainability and profit is a challenge that has been successfully faced by "water sowers" Eloisa Pinheiro and Sandro Trevisan. She produces ornamental and edible flowers in her agroforestry system. Sandro is a barista and his brand of agroforestry coffee pays homage

The production of tree seedlings is an important stage in the forest restoration chain. The Sowing Water Project maintains a nursery of native seedlings from the Atlantic Forest in Nazaré Paulista. Part of the species that are donated through Tree Nation are produced in this nursery.

This week Valor Econômico magazine published an article entitled "An improvement in the Atlantic Forest". When discussing with specialists the reasons for the drop in deforestation in 2022, the journalist spoke with Alexandre Uezu, coordinator of the Sowing Water Project. Alexandre

The first rural exhibition in the municipality of Nazaré Paulista was amazing! On the 29th and 30th of July, rural producers benefiting from the Sowing Water Project, the "water sowers", exhibited and sold their products. Vinegar, guava jam and cookies, shimeji mushroom appetizer,

The Sowing Water Project team started an inventory of mushrooms in the Cantareira System region, with the support and expertise of researchers from the Federal University of São Paulo, São José dos Campos campus. The cultivation of edible mushrooms is another bioeconomy activity

These images were sent by Marina. She is one of the owners of Ecovila Associação Cambará, located in the Cuiabá neighborhood, Nazaré Paulista, SP, Brazil. Two types of coffee are being planted in the area in alternating rows with fruit trees native to the Atlantic Forest. Coffee

Last week, another agroforestry coffee plantation was planted by the Sowing Water Project team on a rural property located in the Cantareira System region. Agroforestry systems are among the solutions proposed by the Sowing Water Project team. In the images you can see coffee being

Last week, the Professional Master's class from ESCAS (Superior School of Environmental Conservation and Sustainability) from IPÊ - Institute for Ecological Research visited areas managed by the Sowing Water Project: forest restoration, production of flowers, fruits and coffee in

The planting of agroforests does not stop! It is the rainy season in this region of the Atlantic Forest in Brazil and we are taking advantage of the combination of long days, heat and water to plant agroforestry systems. Combining coffee with native trees and other short cycle products

"Speechless for the harvest" This is the sentence written over the photo of "Marisa", one of the beneficiaries of the Sowing Water Project. She was very happy and excited about the first corn harvest from her agroforestry system. Non-transgenic native seeds were used, hence the red

Families moved and grateful to the Sowing Water Project for the first planting of the SAF (agroforestry system) on their properties. Even the kids helped! They are landowners in the region of the Cantareira water supply system and are choosing to produce while conserving water, soil