"If you always shepherd the same,
you'll have problems in the long run."
Pastoral saying
Minerva Porté:
founder, daughter and granddaughter of shepherds.
What do you do with the terrible noise produced by the silence of a place that had always been full of life? Why are more and more sheep farmers abandoning their activity? How have we reached the point where a fiber with so many properties like wool is a waste? What is the primary sector that needs to be defended?
Coming from a sheep farming family, Minerva has seen all the problems associated with a profession as beautiful and as ancient, as extensive sheep farming. An ancestral profession that has a healthy and respectful relationship with animals, that cares for the environment and increases biodiversity, that feeds us with quality products, that protects us from forest fires, and much more.
After experiencing the closure of the family farm, the need arises to take the legacy of this profession to give it another life, a new life. new pasture is the will to articulate new possibilities, new pastures, advocating for the sheep farming sector, giving it visibility, highlighting its excellent work, using a fiber with countless properties and possibilities, currently considered waste: wool.
Extensive livestock farming is the author of protection and world-building. There is an inherent goodness in caring for animals and generating healthy products. Now more than ever, we all have the radical need to ask ourselves who and what is behind what sustains us, because without this question, anything goes. This is precisely what new pasture claims: shepherds of animals who accompany them, who are in harmony with them, respecting them instead of trying to dominate or exploit them.
They are already there
Let's defend them
Farm without animals
The farm is empty
and yet the Sun makes it seem there’s still life
and sets, as if nothing, behind them.
And the cicadas keep singing
and the clock keeps ticking
and the Milky Way keeps turning!
Letting out the flock
was more than a job.
I suspect that in repetition
there is something divine
that knows how to see the unimportant details.
These hands of old tree bark
are a map of all the runaway horses
you have drawn on this good earth
like bread.
You will grasp this nothingness tightly
like a newborn lamb
with gentleness but with the certainty that,
despite these walls of stone and mud
and this sky of fire and fog
and the dreams of all those who are no longer here,
life orphaned of meaning
slips away like a straw floating on the water of the irrigation ditch.
I hold my gaze again
to this piece of world made of emptiness:
I feel the vertigo in my belly.
I am a little angry girl
covering her ears tightly.
If only I could stop hearing this noise!
This deafening noise
this noise that is in everything and despite everything
this noise
that everyone
calls
silence.
Minerva Porté
Other projects:
Wool pow
We have created a mechanization process to process wool and transform it into a fertilizer that is easy to apply in agriculture and gardening, which provides many nutrients and has a great water retention capacity.
Because increasing moisture in our soil is optimizing it and giving it life.
More news coming very soon!
