Practical university

Water and soil first. Then the recipes.

The app is not only “how to grow vegetables”. It is so anyone can manage a farm or a scrap of land regeneratively. Every theory block ends in an exercise done with the hands.

Teachers

Five voices, one curriculum.

We filter by teacher so each one teaches a piece the next one needs.

Ana María PrimavesiEcological soil management. Structure, life and nutrition of tropical soil.
Bill MollisonPermaculture. Water, zones and edges before planting.
Elaine InghamSoil food web. Compost and teas that return biology, not only NPK.
Jairo RestrepoLatin American organic agriculture. Cow-manure preparations, broths and farmer autonomy.
James WhiteRhizophagy. How the plant eats microbes and why living soil is not a metaphor.

Curriculum

Logical order, an exercise at every step.

01

Water

Where it enters, stays and is lost. Exercise: draw rainfall flow and mark one retention point.

02

Parent soil

Primavesi: structure, compaction, cover. Exercise: shovel, smell, color and earthworms at three farm points.

03

Design

Mollison: zones, sectors, edges. Exercise: a simple farm map and one weekend change.

04

Biology

Ingham and White: food web and rhizophagy. Exercise: compost or tea from local materials.

05

Farm recipes

Restrepo, JADAM, Palmer (FPJ). Bokashi, broths, potash soap, fermented plant juices. Exercise: one recipe with what you have today.

06

Close the loop

Kitchen scraps, coffee pulp, leaf litter and manures return to the soil. Exercise: inventory of “trash” that is an input.

Recipe book

Practice lives in the app.

Your Farm Recipe Book turns the school into today’s decision: what materials you have, what you want, which recipe comes out. Includes typical Panamanian residues. The app is in Spanish.

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