Mareilde's parents arrived in Rondônia in the 1970s with only small suitcases in hand and began their family's saga there.

After many years of fighting against the "imposing forest", the matriarch of the family, seeing the damage to everyone, understood that it was not against it, but rather in harmony that she should live with the forest and passed this vision on to her daughters, showing them the potential of the oil palm trees that still remained on the property.

Mareilde and her sisters understood their mother's message and founded an association of women extractivists who harvest buriti and babassu fruits to extract oils for the production of artisanal cosmetics from the Amazon Bioeconomy.

With all the decades-long conflict, man versus nature, scars have been left on the land as well as on the property's main river, which is drying up and putting the production of cosmetics and the use of the property in general at risk.

The problems caused by degradation bring direct and indirect socio-environmental and economic losses to the local community, directly impacting more than 30 families.

Upon learning of this situation, Meu Pé de Árvore accepted the challenge of starting Mareilde's dream of restoring the entire river that runs through the property and is   practically without riparian forest and silted up with only a “trickle of water”   and which, in his childhood, served both his family's water supply and in his leisure time, when he competed with his brothers to see who could swim across.

We will start this beautiful forest restoration project at the front of the property, planting mainly Buritis, Chestnut trees, Jequitibás, Açaí, Angico , among others, as desired by the farmer, who already dreams of the future fruits she will harvest, not to mention a good bath in the river.