Good Morning Regens 🐜

I'm Diogo Jorge, a Brazillian forest gardener, founder of AgroforestDAO. Allow me to share a bit of my story in the Ethereum ecosystem 🫘

I have been spreading syntropic agroforestry systems here in rural Minas Gerais - Brazil where together with my family we practice Permaculture, have hosted 50+ volunteers from the web2 network Wwoof and ran projects with local NGOs.

I started my Web3 journey in 2022 via Kernel0x, an educational fellowship supported by the Ethereum Community, where I learned so much and was able to participate as a grantee in Gitcoin Rounds and as a donor in Octant Epochs

In the same year I connected with ReFiDAO and participated in the Planet Positive Hackathon.

I was part of a team whose project was minting Agricultural Journals as NFTs that could have different use cases, such as monetization or reputation building, and thanks to the amazing support of Magenta Ceiba (Bloom Network), Darina (Coffee Carbon) and the team of Sunshine Validator (Regen Network) we created an NFT on Stargaze and got 3rd place 🥳

To receive the prize we created our first Safe Multisig. After a call with Pranav Khana I decided to start building community around the topic of Agroforestry and DAOs on Twitter while learning about DAO tooling, coordination for public goods, onboarding brazilians, and fundraising.

In 2022, I joined ReFiDAO's Founder Circles, where I met people from many ReFi projects, and with some of them we stewarded the first streaming initiative which would later become Let's Grow Live. I have been a member of LetsGrowDAO since the beginning of it 🙌

In August of 2023, I joined GreenPill Network, created the Brazilian Chapter and saw more Brazilians approached the discord, and AgroforestDAO's Telegram.

In 2024, with the funds raised in we had the chance to build a webapp to help design tropical agroforestry systems. This tool makes it is easy to share one's chosen species, receive feedback and set milestones 🌾🌴

We also planted an area and share it in details in our charmverse and social medias. This Pilot Agroforestry Systems is serving as a rooted laboratory for our community. It has had volunteers from AgroforestDAO participating in their activities and being recognized by issuing Hypercerts for Volunteers on Optimism and Celo 💪

In Q3 2024 we started a communication campaing to announce our first Learning Journey for Brazilian Food Forest Stewards.

The campaing lasted 4 weeks in August and led to ~100 applicants from different parts of Brazil, 80 members in the Telegram and 20+ members interacting in our Charmverse:

The Journey ended in Oct 2nd after 6 sessions and thanks to a grant from ArbitrumDAO and a partnership with AtlantisDAO to use the Impact Miner App. Apprentices were rewarded $ARB for presenting the POAPs of the sessions. Now we are incentivizing stewards to create their design plan for the rainy seasons and share it together with other agricultural milestones 👨‍🌾

We have a lot of coordination proposals ahead, like funding the creation of a common seed bank and incentivizing planting biomass species, creating regional events or innovating in ways to fund common agroforestry ventures 🍌🥥🥭

We believe that by recognizing onchain each member's contribution in the different layers of coordination (local, regional, global) we can organize in a long term rooted swarm that uses global coordination to generate local agroforestry culture 🐜

Thank you for reading through and for being a supporter of our work 🙏