Monte do Aniche Eco Farm
Monte do Aniche Eco Farm is an off-grid, community-oriented permaculture project in rural Alentejo, Portugal, combining sustainable farming,…
Social Permaculture
Permaculture applied to people, not just land: Tamera's decades of community-building, the courses at Terra Alta near Sintra, and rural learning centres like Re.Rural in São Luís. Designing fairer, more connected ways of living together.
Projects in this focus
Mosaic Village
Mosaic Village is a regenerative village and relational research centre near Odemira, Portugal, on 20 hectares of Alentejano hills, combinin…
Terra de Paz
Terra de Paz is a community-building initiative creating a new model of rural village in Portugal for 20–40 families, rooted in ecological f…
Sete Fontes
Sete Fontes is a 15-hectare off-grid permaculture project near Portalegre, Portugal, founded by Michel Siebenaller and Isabel Valente and no…
Mount of Oaks
Mount of Oaks (Monte dos Carvalhos) is a small, self-organising intentional community and permaculture farm on 5 hectares of terraced land n…
O Fojo Permaculture | Integral Education Center
O Fojo, founded in 2009, is one of the first permaculture projects in central Portugal. It is now growing into an Integral Education Center …
Guardiãs da Natureza
Guardiãs da Natureza is a national network of women who act as local catalysts for ecosystem regeneration, biodiversity conservation and sus…
Regenerativa Cooperativa Integral
Regenerativa is an integral cooperative in São Luís, Odemira, that brings people and projects together to regenerate rural life in economic,…
Universo Refazenda
A rural creation and cultural mediation project in Alquerubim, Portugal, that brings together art, memory, agriculture and community to buil…
Nowhere Desk
A rural coworking and co-living space in a stone farmhouse in Arcos de Valdevez, northern Portugal, where remote work goes alongside farming…
Vale Ondula
A permaculture living lab and eco-community on 3.6 hectares of forest in Sande, Northern Portugal. Two families and their volunteers are bui…
Loural Ecovillage
Loural Ecovillage is a sustainable community and retreat centre in Colmeal, Góis, Portugal, working towards food and energy self-sufficiency…
The Hide PT
The Hide PT is a co-living and retreat centre in a secluded valley near Oleiros, Central Portugal, with space for creatives, remote workers …
Live With Earth
Live With Earth is a Portuguese non-profit association, active since 2012 and formally founded in 2017, working on sustainable development a…
PurposeFlow Living
PurposeFlow Living is a regenerative living community and retreat centre in Pavia, Alentejo, Portugal, working on ecological restoration, we…
Toca do Coelho
Toca do Coelho is a small open community farm and creative sanctuary in the hills near Alferce, in the Algarve, built on permaculture, self-…
Cristaland Lagos
Cristaland Lagos is a conscious eco-community and event centre in the Algarve, Portugal, built around sustainable living, wellbeing and comm…
Tamera
Tamera is an international peace research and education centre founded in 1995 in Odemira, Alentejo, Portugal, where over 160 residents live…
Vegoa
Vegoa is a platform and registered association promoting sustainable, ethical and vegan living through community-building. Its flagship proj…
Nature of Life Foundation
The Nature of Life Foundation, registered in the Netherlands, is building a regenerative intergenerational community and educational ecosyst…
Social permaculture in Portugal
Most community projects that fail do not fail on the water system. They fail on decision-making, money and who does the dishes. Social permaculture is the attempt to design that side with the same care usually reserved for the land.
Tamera has been working on it near Odemira since 1995 and publishes what it learns. Terra Alta teaches it alongside land design near Sintra. Vale Ondula runs a living lab in the north, The Hide hosts co-living in a valley near Oleiros, and PurposeFlow and Nature of Life are building the same thing in the Alentejo and the western Algarve.
If you are considering joining or starting a community, this is the reading to do first. See also intentional communities, ecovillages and cooperatives and collectives. Dated activities from these projects are listed in our events calendar.