Various updates and windows into our life at the Ecovillage this year

Setting up the Red yurt from Catia. Founding gathering interrupted by a wildfire.

The journey of building up a 6.5m yurt as our first event space

Land ownership transferred to the cooperative We have completed the important step of becoming the owners of the land! It has been a long...

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...

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...

In December and January, in the transition from 2023 to 2024, we were building the wooden yurt platform for the new residents Julia and...

Cooperative Registered We have finished making the Cooperative for the ecovillage!Introducing 'Cooperativa Ecoaldeia Guarda Rios...

Autumn brings beautiful sunsets and colours as the big trees along the river start to drop their leaves, and the river became powerful...

One year after the Ecovillage Launch Gathering, we held the third founding gathering, this time with seven participants and three...

This was our first full Summer on the land. We had some productive weeks with several different volunteers and some of the participants...

After a successful first founding Gathering in April, we held a second gathering with a similar format and updated workshops. The...

The first founding gathering invitation: Ecovillage simulation game workshop - using pretend money, contract, share certificates and...

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...

Filling the walls with rammed straw, installing the windows, starting the plastering Attaching the pallets between the posts and filling...

My journey exploring community living and starting Ecoaldeia Guarda Rios. I am Hari, from the UK, growing up in Brighton. I studied...

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...

We heard about Gone West, https://gonewest.com/, a tree planting organisation that provides free trees and applied for trees from them....

Continuing with a group after the Gathering, plus other visitors. Making the Foundation wall and the roof. Delivery of straw bales....

Progressing with the build with lots of help during the launch gathering - building the roundwood structure. Measuring the posts......