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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.

• 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

• 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

The family has shifted to an incremental growth strategy that focuses on:

1. Leveraging existing resources and activities
2. Attracting people to the land (as participants or volunteers)
3. Creating a volunteer pipeline 
4. Thoughtful development of their 2.5-hectare plot

From Wiktionary: alō (present infinitive alere, perfect active aluī, supine altum or alitum); third conjugation

• • I foster, I nourish
  • I raise (as a child, an animal, etc.)
  • I feed, I maintain, I develop