Across five field days, participants work through the sequence a conversion actually follows: Diagnosis, Preparation, Establishment, Stewardship, Succession. They read soil in three open pits spanning thirty years of different management, examine those same soils under a microscope, turn their own laboratory report into an amendment plan for their own land, build compost and biological inputs from Korean and Brazilian traditions, survey contour, design a syntropic planting one meter at a time, and plant it themselves in ground they assessed on day one.

They are also shown what has not worked here: an orchard we replace five to ten percent of every year, coffee planted before it had shade, trees the goats stripped, and a crop that grossed €14,000 a year across seven acres — the number that reframes what a small farm’s economics really are.

Sixteen places. All instruction, meals, tools and airport transfers included. Participants leave with a complete design for their own land, eight assessed practical competencies, and a sixty-eight-step manual written as the conversion happens.

Malaca Farm Estate, Cabouco, Lagoa, São Miguel, Azores.
October 18–24, 2026. Further dates monthly, April through October 2027. From €4,625 per person, double occupancy, fully inclusive.