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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...
As time goes by, the garden starts to mature a little and more pants are growing, and fruiting. For the first time, the garden looked green and healthy after the Summer, we had more quantity and variety of fruits, strawberry tree is flowering for the first time and the saffron came back unannounced 💖
As time goes by, the garden starts to mature a little and more pants are growing, and fruiting. For the first time, the garden looked green and healthy after the Summer, we had more quantity and variety of fruits, strawberry tree is flowering for the first time and...
Há uns meses, o meu filho começou a dobrar papel… e agora não paramos! O origami tornou-se algo que partilhamos como família, e queremos partilhar essa alegria com vocês também.
Há uns meses, o meu filho começou a dobrar papel... e agora não paramos! O origami tornou-se algo que partilhamos como família, e queremos partilhar essa alegria com vocês também.Estamos a começar Alo Ori - um clube de origami para famílias aqui em Alo Land, Salir do...
The geese and the goslings are finally together in one little flock. They are so loud and bickering all the time, but the reality is – they instantly became inseparable, even if they are from quite different species.
The geese and the goslings are finally together in one little flock. They are so loud and bickering all the time, but the reality is - they instantly became inseparable, even if they are from quite different species.
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