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Alo Land Strategy Summary
Alo Land is a regenerative initiative by us – Petru and Inês. We are former tech professionals who moved to Portugal with our two children. We currently manage a 1-hectare plot with a food forest and own an additional 2.5-hectare undeveloped plot nearby.
Vision and Goals
- Land restoration using regenerative practices
- Supporting holistic well-being (physical, emotional, spiritual)
- Cultivating eight forms of capital (financial, material, living, social, intellectual, experiential, spiritual, cultural)
- Building community resilience
Current Challenges
- Overwhelming workload maintaining the food forest
- Potential for more social connections, particularly for the adults
- Gaps in food production despite potential
- Restrictions on travel due to land care responsibilities
Strategic Approach
The family has shifted to an incremental growth strategy that focuses on:
- Leveraging existing resources and activities
- Attracting people to the land (as participants or volunteers)
- Creating a volunteer pipeline
- Thoughtful development of their 2.5-hectare plot
What's with the name?
From Wiktionary: alō (present infinitive alere, perfect active aluī, supine altum or alitum); third conjugation
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- I foster, I nourish
- I raise (as a child, an animal, etc.)
- I feed, I maintain, I develop
From our visual diary...
The duck coop has a lower shelf that they’ve been nesting and laying eggs under.
The duck coop has a lower shelf that they've been nesting and laying eggs under.To allow for multiple females to each have their own nest, we built some easy to install and move subdividers yesterday. They seem to have been approved - there was an egg in one of them...
We are still recovering from whatever bug we got so we made another tea. This one is #malva, #eucalyptus , #pine, and #mint. Everything from a few meters away from the kitchen. The only outside addition was the ginger. One of us picked the leaves, the kids Identified the plants and cooked it.
We are still recovering from whatever bug we got so we made another tea. This one is , , , and . Everything from a few meters away from the kitchen. The only outside addition was the ginger. One of us picked the leaves, the kids Identified the plants and cooked...
Even during the warm sunny afternoon, we could still find some droplets from this morning’s rain under a trunk.
Even during the warm sunny afternoon, we could still find some droplets from this morning's rain under a trunk.
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