WILD GARDENING RETREAT
MARCH 2024
Wild Oasis│Monchique │Portugal
Grow a productive garden
Wild harvesting
Learn permaculture principles
Plant seeds
Regenerate soil
Connection & ceremony
Theory & practice
Attend to inner garden
THEME: JOURNEY THROUGH THE SEASONS
A HOLISTIC APPROACH TO GARDENING & LIFE
We are thrilled to invite you to our second edition of the Wild Gardening Retreat.
Throughout these 6 days, Mario & Yoav will guide you, step by step, into the practice of productive vegetable gardening that promotes healthy soil life, fertility & regeneration. Through hands on experimentation with our most efficient techniques & tools, backed by some theoretical sessions you will learn to deeply understand the natural cycles. The goal is to teach you everything you need to know so you can create an abundant, thriving & attuned garden.
Dina & Dominik, in the meantime, will support you by facilitating mindful practices that will nourish your inner garden landscape. As one is not separated from the other, this retreat aims at cultivating harmony between ourselves and nature.
Reconnect to your soul, body & mind by growing your own food while taking care of mother earth.
WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT:
PRODUCTIVE AND REGENERATIVE GARDENING
The majority of time we will be spending in the garden or talking about gardening. You will learn how to grow food & take care of the land. It will be a mix of theory sessions and actual work in the gardens of Wild Oasis. So you can practice what you learned or see techniques applied on a real life environment. See next page for a more detailed overview of the gardening sessions.
PERMACULTURE PRINCIPLES
This is technically not a permaculture training, but you will learn many of the same principles. Like how to create effective cycles, how to leverage synergies between plants and reuse any "waste".
INNER & OUTER WORK
We invite you to not only learn how to plant your own garden at home, but also to nourish your inner garden. Plant seeds for your life, compost what is no longer working for you and water your flowers so you can access the abundance within. We will share practices that will stimulate and support this work.
HEALTHY MEALS
Nurturing and nutritious meals will be served throughout the day. We will have two main meals, brunch and dinner, and plenty of snacks to keep us fuelled throughout the day.
DAILY YOGA, MEDITATION & BREATHWORK
We will start every day with yoga, meditation or breathwork, to get us into our body and our felt sense. Connecting with ourselves first so we can really connect with the earth and the plants throughout the days.
CELEBRATION & TOGETHERNESS
There will be plenty of time where you will experience the power and beauty of being part of a community. We will share our meals together, dance, sing, enjoy live music and celebrate in a conscious and connected way.
GUIDANCE & SUPPORT
Among the Wild Oasis crew, as well as guest facilitators, we have a team of space holders, yoga teachers, coaches, mentors, massage therapists and breathworkers. You will be able to book individual sessions as well as ask for support during your time with us.
WEATHER
The retreat will take place in the mountains of Monchique. March is the time to prepare your garden. The nights can still be chilly though. and we have are on avg. 12 rain days in March. So bring warm cloths and a raincoat.
TIME IN NATURE
Wild Oasis is located in a peaceful, remote location with abundant nature all around, perfect for hikes and rest time.
This will be a beautiful and transformative experience and we are grateful and excited to welcome you to be part of it with us.
THE SCHEDULE
WINTER
PREPARE THE SOIL
PRUNING & MULCHING TREES
We will learn how to prune fruit trees in a healthy way to help with their vigor & fruit production. Also mulching & cover cropping around their base to help them retain moisture in the hottest & driest months.
FRUIT TREE PLANTING
Digging into our precious soil & planting some self-grown fruit trees, mixing in compost & discussing about the general care to take for a food forest.
FIG TREE CUTTINGS
Before the figs trees start sprouting their leaves in the spring, we will cut off some the youngest branches so we can reproduce that fig tree & take one home with us.
GREEEN MANURE & COMPOSTING THEORY
How to fertilize the soil naturally? In this session we will sit down to figure out different scalable techniques to regenerate the soil, bringing back life & fertility to her so we can then use the space to grow fruit trees & vegetables.
SPRING
PREPARE THE SOIL
PRUNING & MULCHING TREES
We will learn how to prune fruit trees in a healthy way to help with their vigor & fruit production. Also mulching & cover cropping around their base to help them retain moisture in the hottest & driest months.
FRUIT TREE PLANTING
Digging into our precious soil & planting some self-grown fruit trees, mixing in compost & discussing about the general care to take for a food forest.
FIG TREE CUTTINGS
Before the figs trees start sprouting their leaves in the spring, we will cut off some the youngest branches so we can reproduce that fig tree & take one home with us.
GREEEN MANURE & COMPOSTING THEORY
How to fertilize the soil naturally? In this session we will sit down to figure out different scalable techniques to regenerate the soil, bringing back life & fertility to her so we can then use the space to grow fruit trees & vegetables.
