Matilde Magro

Herbalism and The Great Forgetting

by Matilde Magro Ever think that you might have a cat’s superpower knowing just the right herbs to take for your particular body/ailment/prevention? I’m here…

Explaining regeneration and its expansion beyond the limits of culture

by Matilde Magro There are social, ecological, and spiritual structures that link the human world to the rest of the living on this planet and…

Rights of Nature

If I had to write the rights of Nature, I’d include these.

Marina Nobre: Reforestation is more than planting trees.

The seed knows what it does and how it does it.

When we don’t know enough, what good does opinion do?

"Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance" --Plato

Food and water are the baselines of every culture. We will neglect every single thing good about any culture until we understand why people eat and how they eat, and how passed down from generations and generations the “question of food” really is. There is no healing at all until one heals its relationship with food.

Poetics of communication

There’s an issue that needs addressing, like a PO-box of understanding, of enthusiastically awaiting new mail to arrive, like the birds of yesterday in harmonic screeches of today’s fairy tales.

Opening a heartfelt dialogue with life - A film review of Into The Soil

A timely film about how we share food, care for our land and value the lives of everyone around us.

Questioning role-models

I think some of us have given up on trying to reach remaining humans outside of our bubbles.

What Indigenous spiritual knowledge can teach us about regenerative design

Native stories about natural spirits which comprise the reality of things can help us a lot in thinking in regenerative terms.

Social Permaculture: Language and its barriers to understanding

We, humans, invented language to name things to understand them by expanding on their meaning, but my proposal is that right now it hinders our understanding of things more than it helps. Particularly language that it’s either too formal or too loose in terms of meaning and understanding.

Reappropriating our inherent natural culture

by Matilde Magro Whether you follow me on Medium, Facebook, or Instagram you’re well aware that I think a lot about how to solve our…

How to learn humility for a better tomorrow

by Matilde Magro Step by step guide of 10 easy ways to reconnect with yourself and to love the life you live. 1. Recognize kinship with…

The Medicine of Making Your Own Cosmetics

I make big quantities of it because it’s really the most miraculous cream ever, and it really helps with both oily or dry skin to level out the essential oils of the skin itself. It’s also great for marks and a natural sunscreen.

Applying Graphic Design Principles to Social Permaculture

In working on a specific part of a social design I realized there is no way to design something in which a considered minority is excluded.

Creative Economy and Fringe Empowerment

How to connect de-urbanism, creative industries, regenerative practices, solidarity economies and social entrepreneurship.

Spiritual gardening, the way out of suffering.

Ever walked along a Chinese garden, public or private, urban or rural? It’s interesting maybe for you to know that if you did, it taught…

For your inspiration: Sabarmatee

A woman and her father gathered their know-how, investments and time, and turned 90 acres into a lush edible forest. Here’s their story. “Every expert…