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Who we are
We are a non-commercial, not-for-profit initiative, building a FabLab within a once-abandoned farm. Our goal is to create a place where thinkers, artists, makers, and farmers come together to learn, share, and create. This is not a ......
😃🌿 Welcome to our peaceful off-grid home in the countryside with beautiful sea views, about 10 km from Odeceixe Beach.
We are in the process of continuing to restore and care for our land after the bushfire in August 2023. With the help of ......
I am a retired Brit living in village close to Almeirim in the Santarem area of the Ribatejo. The main industry here is growing and making wine. After 10 years living on the Silver Coast I moved here and have acquired an old house that used to be an ......
We are a family living in the sw alentejo, costa vicentina, working in 3 different fields: -Horsetraining / Horsetrails -pedagogical work w. teenagers and also medical mushrooms in the winter season. Our ranch is 12km from the ocean in the middle of ......
Hello EVERYONES!!
We are LIGIA,TOMÉ, ZÉZÉ and PEPE!
Our family is part of a group of 57 beings from all over the world, that got themselves together in an amazing valley to experiment a more conscious and cooperative action in this planet.
2011 was ......
We are a couple, 58, 55, living with 6 dogs and 3 horses. We live on 5 ha, part field part garden part buildings part forest. We are schooling ourself in gardening, no dig, permaculture etc. Having a balanced existence or trying to.
Update!
> Help with reconstruction.
> Help and learn from an experienced guy to build a stone wall to the neighbour (maybe also a terrace for sitting and watching the sunrise).
> Maintain and fix the irrigation system (mainly weeding and putting ......
Hello lovely people, I am your host Matias, from Denmark. I live in a small community together with two old friends and some other good friends that own the land next to us. There are 3 other communities (in total, we are around 50 people) based in ......
*Before you continue, we have a 4 week minimum stay*
Hi I'm Nathaniel. My girlfriend Diana and I live on this little farm which has a very lucky location, with breath taking views to the highest Algarvian mountains, close to the beautiful beach of ......
Some people wonder why I do the things I do.
I wonder why they don't.
Hello!
Thank you for visiting my profile.
I’m Dirk, living in this beautiful part of South Portugal since a couple of years. I am a vegetarian, non-smoker, 60 years old and ......
Hello :)
We are Madeleine (35), Felix (31), Ayla (4) and Emil (2). Madeleine is originally from The Netherlands, Felix from Austria. We enjoy being outdoors and creating beautiful things. Felix works as a carpenter and is passionate about creating ......
~ This spring we will be preparing our communal gardens, preparing and checking beehives, putting bee boxes up to catch swarms and do more tree planting on my new piece of land to turn it into a fruit yard. Also work on the house as this is a work ......
Hello! We are Lisa, Steve, and our two children, Molly and Sebastian. Alongside our theee rescue cats and numerous chickens. We left the rat race in the UK three years ago to pursue a simpler, more fulfilling lifestyle in the beautiful Algarve ......
!!UPDATE!!
We, alongside many of our friends, were affected by the wildfires in the Serra da Gardunha. (August 2025)
We now need more immediate help and will also be on the farm for the most part the coming months to rebuild. Fortunately the living ......
We're a family of four from Germany. Over the past years, we've traveled all across Europe and Africa in our beloved 52-year-old restored Mercedes truck, even crossing the Sahara Desert twice!
A year and a half ago, we traded our home on wheels for ......
Hello, We are Ami & Samy.
Our project was born out of our mutual dream to live close to nature, completely off-grid, with a self-sustained but comfortable regenerative lifestyle. We found our dream land in Alentejo, between the picturesque hills ......
We are Maurits and Femke,
We moved to the Algarve in February 2026 with our son Bram who is 2 years old. We are renovating an old Quinta close to Silves into a small guesthouse. We choose the Algarve and Silves because we have some family living ......
Hi, I’m Sebastian.
I live in the Magic Mountains of central Portugal — a place where the soil is dark and generous, the water runs clean and wild, and the rivers invite you in like an old friend. My land is a 3-hectare quinta, resting gently in ......
We are a Portuguese couple with experience on permaculture and self-sufficient-living that in 2015 got 15ha of abundant land in a beautiful valley and an amazing community at the highest mountains inside the biggest natural park of our country. ......
Are looking for a longer term escape in nature- back to basics, un-plug from the world and re-connect to your wilder side - or maybe you are interested in a taste of living off grid and what it really means!
(we ask for a mimimum two week stay, but ......