Pierre Joseph (owner)
Pierre is an entrepreneur who graduated from the Solvay Business School of the Free University of Brussels in 1990. He worked in various industries as a financial analyst, sales manager, business owner, business coach and consultant for 18 years.
His turning 40 was a life spiritual tipping point when in the search of more life meaning and passion, he decided to investigate new avenues of interest. He practised and taught tai-chi, studied and became energetic healing practitioner and eventually a new age spirituality teacher. In 2011, he discovered Divine Truth teachings which has since then been central in his spiritual aspiration to learn more about God’s Love and develop a growing personal love for God, self, others and the environment.
Successively apprentice gardener in France, studying and learning permaculture at the Permaculture Research Institute (PRI) of Jeff Lawton in Australia, he has then worked in various building and ecosystem restoration projects in Australia and New Zealand, and as a landscape gardener, re-greening nickel mines and working for various nurseries and for food growers in New Caledonia. He also created Vegan Pacific in 2015, a vegan food business. Pursuing his growing passion for the environment, regenerative practices and natural building, he studied and certified as a Clay mason natural builder from Noria & Compagnie in Brive la Gaillarde and as a Clay & Lime stucco plasterer from the Europeean School of Art and Material (EEAM)in Albi France in 2018. In 2019, He created Terpaille&Co natural building. In 2022, he bought a 2,7ha piece of cork oak and chestnut trees farmland in Marvão, Alto Alentejo, Portugal. As a farmer with a very poor soil for growing anything else than oak and chestnut trees, needing further education to restore soil health, he studied and graduated from the Soil Food Web School of Dr. Elaine Ingham in the Foundation Course in Soil Microbiology in 2024 and as a Soil Food Web Certified Laboratory Technician in August 2025.
Founder and General Manager of Tapada do Castelo Farm since 2022, he registered Terralma Marvão in 2023 as a Research and Education Center providing Soil Restoration Education & Services. He has opened a Soil Food Web Microbiology Laboratory and Education Facility since October 2025.