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, combining land stewardship, permaculture and…
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, now e…
Regenerativa Cooperativa Integral
Regenerativa is an integral cooperative based in São Luís, Odemira, that brings together people and projects to regenerate rural life across…
PurposeFlow Living
PurposeFlow Living is a regenerative living community and retreat centre nestled in the wild heart of the Alentejo, Portugal, dedicated to e…
Tamera
Tamera is an international peace research and education centre founded in 1995 in Odemira, Alentejo, Portugal, where over 160 residents live…
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.