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First Field Flow · Morocco
Two field relationships. One learning constellation.
Morocco currently brings together two distinct places and a cross-field relationship. Each place keeps its own authority, history and questions. Shared learning can travel between them without turning either into a copy of the other.
Read about these relationships in français or الدارجة المغربية. These first editions can be corrected with local readers.
Growing food and caring for land together
Our starting point is a shared wish to see places become more alive: soil protected, food growing, young trees surviving their first summer and people able to continue caring for them. We begin with the knowledge and work already present. Research can widen the conversation; the place and its stewards help us discover what actually fits.
Ferme Badaoui and Firmaty have different histories, water conditions and needs. They can learn from each other while keeping their own questions, decisions and pace.
The shared horizon
Morocco capacity horizon · planning basis. This is one planning horizon across field stewardship, inquiry, local coordination, technical support, evidence and Return. It is not divided publicly between people or places. The horizon is a planning assumption, not money received or allocated; the dated financial record is held in the PG Ledger.
Two field relationships
The two places enter the work from different conditions and at different rhythms.
Doukkala · first field study in preparation
Ferme Badaoui · Abdelhamid Badaoui, Mohamed Belbaida and the local team
One possible first cycle is being shaped around approximately 1,290 m² of open ground and approximately 1,000 m² within an existing pomegranate orchard. The areas offer two starting conditions on the same farm. Their boundaries and first planting plan will be confirmed locally. The wider holding provides a longer horizon for learning about water, soil, food production and continuing care.
- Present movement
- Review the starting conditions together, locate both areas on a land and water map, and agree who would do the work and who could receive the funds.
- Longer horizon
- Learn whether a useful field cycle can inform wider management without fixing expansion in advance.
Open the Doukkala field record →
Firmaty · Had Soualem · first inquiry forming
Assyl Elazzaoui and an existing two-hectare practice
Firmaty is an established permaculture practice in a water-pressured peri-urban landscape. The first possible shared movement is a locally corrected water inquiry, beginning with Assyl Elazzaoui's present need and the site's actual water history. A deeper borehole remains one question among possible combinations, not a selected solution.
- Present movement
- Invite Assyl Elazzaoui to shape a bounded inquiry and a useful French Return.
- Decision boundary
- No technology or infrastructure choice precedes local need, site knowledge, legal conditions and proportional technical evidence.
Open the Firmaty field record →
Connection across the fields
Casablanca is a relational and coordinating connection, not a third agricultural field.
Casablanca · cross-field relationship
Ingrid Pullar
Ingrid Pullar's relationship with Planetary Guardians since 2021 brings continuity, language and local context to the emerging pathway. Her shared contribution, time and resources are being shaped with her separately from the agricultural field budgets. Each field keeps its own voice and decisions.
Open the Casablanca coordination record →
What the constellation is for
The work asks how land, water, human viability and responsible agreements can be read together.
Land and life
Observe the actual place
Water, soil cover, roots, vegetation, production, animals, disease and the wider catchment are considered together. No technique is regenerative by definition.
Steward viability
Make the human work visible
Local knowledge, continuity, labour and responsibility must be recognised without hiding unpaid or underpaid work.
Governance and commons
Keep roles and decisions clear
Each field keeps local authority while Spiralweb remains responsible for its own agreements, funding decisions and public record.
Five connected fields of attention
Five connected fields of attention help make the inquiry practical. They are a local application of Spiralweb’s seven wider themes, and can be corrected as the work develops.
Water and climate
What water is available through the seasons, what reaches the plants and what is withdrawn from wells? Can shade, soil cover and careful irrigation improve growing conditions within an agreed water limit? Heat, drought and salt make both quantity and quality important.
Living soil
What do roots encounter, and what would improve the soil? A first soil reading can guide mulch, mature organic materials and locally available biomass. Earthworks need a suitable local design; the condition and salt content of inputs matter.
Plants and food
Which combinations of species could provide food, shelter and biomass? Syntropic agroforestry offers inspiration through succession, layers and returning biomass to the soil. Water demand, competition, pruning and practical care must be examined locally.
Biodiversity and habitat
What is already alive here, and which existing habitats need care? Mapping the present vegetation and other species comes before assuming that more cultivated vegetation benefits every habitat. Neighbouring stewardship can become part of the inquiry when local people wish to join.
Stewardship and economy
What time, knowledge, tools, maintenance and fair payment does continuing care require? Plant availability, local skills and the cost of sustaining the first dry season are part of a viable beginning. A Green Hub may grow as a working community when cooperation is useful and can be carried locally.
A pathway that can begin in portions
First portion
Understand and prepare
Confirm boundaries, map land and water, choose essential tests, check plants and materials, and agree roles and the recipient route. This can become a useful first supported movement before the full planting budget is available.
Establishment
Plant with continuing care
Start at a scale the team can sustain. Irrigation, protection, local work and care through the first dry season belong with the planting, rather than being left to a later payment.
Review
Learn and choose the next movement
Review survival, water, useful harvest, work and cost. Adapt the design before extending it. Perennial systems require learning across several years.
These are proposed portions for local discussion, not fixed funding percentages or dates. Their cost and release conditions will be agreed against the working budget. Timing and scale follow available funds, local agreement and seasonal conditions. See the first questions at Ferme Badaoui →
Resources for the present questions
Use what helps the question at hand. The shared framework offers ways to examine land, water and continuing care; the tools can be adapted or left aside.
Learning from these places
A place for locally reviewed observations, explanations and corrections as the shared inquiries develop. No reviewed accounts from a shared Spiralweb-supported field cycle are published here yet. The field records above describe existing practice and present preparation.
Participants choose what can be shared here, in which language and form. Selected learning may also enter Spiralweb Papers, while retaining its connection to the local account.
Images and public record
The AnchorPoints page shows how relationships may become a shared local form. Person and place images are used only where their provenance, consent, credit and public function are known.
