Before acquiring land, one question must be answered without illusion: can I actively steward this land? The answer requires an honest reckoning with age, time, resources and knowledge.
The purchase of Quinta Picapau began a steep learning curve. What started as a simple crop failure became an important lesson about the relationships between water, soil, plants and biology.
Stewardship begins with the way we think before we act — managing relationships rather than isolated problems, thinking in decades not seasons, and treating every failure as information.