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Transferring the land to the Cooperative + Podcast Interview
Land ownership transferred to the cooperative We have completed the important step of becoming the owners of the land! It has been a long...
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Healing Biotope Community Portugal
May 72 min
Fundraising Review May 2024
We are reviewing the arrangement with the land owner. Until now, we had a deal to pay for the land in several parts, over another three...
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Healing Biotope Community Portugal
Apr 152 min
Founding Gathering March 2024
Our first event of the year, we had the pleasure of hosting two families for a founding gathering at the end of March. The workshops had...
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Healing Biotope Community Portugal
Feb 271 min
Building Julia and Kali's yurt
In December and January, in the transition from 2023 to 2024, we were building the wooden yurt platform for the new residents Julia and...
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Feb 54 min
Coop registered + New resident member + Funding milestone reached!
Cooperative Registered We have finished making the Cooperative for the ecovillage!Introducing 'Cooperativa Ecoaldeia Guarda Rios...
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Dec 5, 20232 min
Autumn 2023 Updates
Autumn brings beautiful sunsets and colours as the big trees along the river start to drop their leaves, and the river became powerful...
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Nov 7, 20232 min
Founding Gathering #3 September 2023
One year after the Ecovillage Launch Gathering, we held the third founding gathering, this time with seven participants and three...
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Aug 30, 20233 min
Summer 2023 updates
This was our first full Summer on the land. We had some productive weeks with several different volunteers and some of the participants...
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Aug 4, 20231 min
Founding Gathering #2 July 2023
After a successful first founding Gathering in April, we held a second gathering with a similar format and updated workshops. The...
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May 15, 20231 min
Founding Gathering #1 May 2023
The first founding gathering invitation: Ecovillage simulation game workshop - using pretend money, contract, share certificates and...
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Healing Biotope Community Portugal
May 8, 20232 min
Spring 2023 Updates
Preparing the roof Splitting trees to use for the edge of the roof. Split trees. The first edge for the roof Leon and Hari clearing the...
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Healing Biotope Community Portugal
Mar 25, 20231 min
Building the common house, Part 4: Winter 2022/23
Filling the walls with rammed straw, installing the windows, starting the plastering Attaching the pallets between the posts and filling...
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Healing Biotope Community Portugal
Mar 25, 20235 min
About me: Hari Beales, Project Initiator
My journey exploring community living and starting Ecoaldeia Guarda Rios. I am Hari, from the UK, growing up in Brighton. I studied...
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Healing Biotope Community Portugal
Mar 22, 20232 min
Winter 2022-23 on the land
The start of the Winter was with Marc, Juli and the four children. Here is Ellis enjoying the abundance of water from the spring now that...
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Healing Biotope Community Portugal
Feb 28, 20231 min
Tree planting Winter 2022-23
We heard about Gone West, https://gonewest.com/, a tree planting organisation that provides free trees and applied for trees from them....
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Healing Biotope Community Portugal
Dec 8, 20221 min
Building the common house, Part 3: October and November 2022
Continuing with a group after the Gathering, plus other visitors. Making the Foundation wall and the roof. Delivery of straw bales....
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Healing Biotope Community Portugal
Oct 21, 20221 min
Building the common house, Part 2: September 2022
Progressing with the build with lots of help during the launch gathering - building the roundwood structure. Measuring the posts......
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Healing Biotope Community Portugal
Oct 14, 20227 min
Ecovillage Launch Gathering Aug 29 - Oct 3 2022
Reflections from project initiator, Hari, after the first event organised at the Ecovillage. Written by Hari I decided to organise a...
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Healing Biotope Community Portugal
Aug 27, 20221 min
Building the common house, Part 1: July and August 2022 - plans and preparation
Clearing the plants, starting to level the ground, collecting materials for the structure. Wood that was already here. Some is split, but...
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