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Grow With Us
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
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
From our visual diary...
Cleaning a couple former beds in #zone2.
Cleaning a couple former beds in .They had mostly annual veggies in areas with bare soil that we put cardboard and compost on. Mission accomplished, only a few perennials and rich soil remain behind.
Flowering tagasaste (tree lucerne).
Flowering tagasaste (tree lucerne).The only one of a couple seeds we planted, it seems to thrive here and grew an impressive amount in a single year. It's a nitrogen fixer and makes for a great companion plant, so hopefully we can get some seeds from this one.
Just walking by and this caught my eye.
Just walking by and this caught my eye.Water droplets on a cabbage leaf.Beautiful.
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