It is not possible to be entirely prepared to create new systems where none exist, but it is possible to gather the arguments to support what is decided to be created, just as it is possible to be armed to defend what is created, and then develop the strength to withstand constructive criticism and the clarity for reflection. It is possible to analyze meticulously the composition of the materials, just as it is possible to preserve them over time by processing them to transform them into new matter. It is indeed possible to predict the arrival of rain, just as it is likely to propose an important change: that from an industry that utilizes only 15% of the raw material, the rest stops being discarded.

Weather Station Moray 1

This year was the year of possibilities, of conclusions, of verifications, analyses, urgencies, harvests from previous years, and conscientious planting. It has been the year of demonstrations, of assistance campaigns, of breaking free from the comfortable shadow and stepping into the light, with all that it represents: being completely exposed. The year to revisit what was lived, and relive the intensity, so that in calm we can draw up projects. This year we ventured into a field that feels like an immense and novel sea, with different challenges, that of education.

Reading plan and implementation of the library in the Anccoto Nest

The year of measuring the impact of what we did, do, and will do, to mark those indicators that establish ways of continuing to evaluate ourselves. This year, 1.5 hectares of land at 3600 meters above sea level proved to be highly productive thanks to significant investment of ingenuity, sustained work, comprehensive planning, and a lot of perseverance. In 2024, new people are part of an interdisciplinary team, which continues to integrate efforts to create those previously nonexistent systems. For supply, for utilization of material, for identification of new species, for recording and cataloging, for design, for art. Systems to observe. The methodology is applicable even in places that were once considered distant. Tokyo is a Mater scene and exemplifies the probability of applying 'Mater' elsewhere in the world. 

71 varieties of potatoes harvested in the MIL farm

Catalog of botanical samples collected around MIL Center

Threads exhibition at the Grand Egyptian Museum, Cairo

This year is also important because being part of an organization whose main focus is gastronomy, we have decided that it will tend to expand into new and more formats to increasingly return to direct contact, to the authenticity of the foundations. Our plan to make everything traceable, and to gain certainty about real contexts, at every level of the territory is strengthened with the clear intention to co-design more ambitious and inclusive plans with involved individuals, more ways to be immersed in unique natures. The Andes, the Amazon, coastal systems, marine ones, so close that you cannot distinguish distance, but that do allow distinguishing their uniqueness.

Leaves, flowers, and fruits of Theobroma Grandiflorum in Madre de Dios

It is possible that we are a larger community than the personalities that comprise it, that we may be fragile before the seemingly infinite amount of pending tasks, but that feeling we are a perfectly irregular mass with our souls in place, we are more ready than ever to face a 2025 full of tangible and intangible things to come.