Awakened Life Project (Quinta da Mizarela)
The Awakened Life Project is an evolutionary spiritual community, permaculture farm, and educational hub located at Quinta da Mizarela, a re…
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
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 is a pioneering permaculture project in central Portugal, founded in 2009, now evolving into an Integral Education Center offering co…
Guardiãs da Natureza
Guardiãs da Natureza is a national network of women acting as local catalysts for ecosystem regeneration, biodiversity conservation and sust…
Universo Refazenda
Universo Refazenda is a rural creation and cultural mediation project in Alquerubim, Portugal, weaving together art, memory, agriculture and…
Loural Ecovillage
Loural Ecovillage is a sustainable community and retreat centre located in Colmeal, Góis, Portugal, working towards food and energy self-suf…
Ananda Kalyani
Ananda Kalyani is an intentional community and Master Unit located in the Serra da Estrela region of central Portugal, founded in 2010 acros…
The Hide PT
The Hide PT is a co-living and retreat centre nestled in a secluded valley near Oleiros, Central Portugal, offering a nurturing space for cr…
Live With Earth
Live With Earth is a Portuguese non-profit association active since 2012 and formally founded in 2017, based at the Eco Campus Torres Vedras…
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.
Where these projects are
- Centro09
- Alentejo07
- Algarve04
- Norte02