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Grow With Us

Where Regeneration Meets Community: Experience sustainable living in a family-led food forest on Portugal's Silver Coast, where your participation directly contributes to building a resilient multi-generational ecosystem.

What's with the name?

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

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:

  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 our visual diary...

First attempt of sealing the east #pond with #bentonite.

First attempt of sealing the east #pond with #bentonite.

Mai 15, 2022

First attempt of sealing the east with .It's already in a clayish area and the excavator did a nice job compacting it. However, there's also a lot of rocks and it wasn't holding water. We liberally sprinkled a 25kg bag of bentonite into the holes we could identify or...

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