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-…
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
Cristaland Lagos
Cristaland Lagos is a conscious eco-community and event centre in the Algarve, Portugal, built around sustainable living, wellbeing and comm…
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.