Association Jardim do Mira

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About the Communities

  • Established
  • English
  • Ecological
  • Rural

Founding year

  • 2019

What we do

Our organisation is operating with the sociocracy 3.0 principles for effective collaboration. We have been learning these principles since the first meeting in July 2019.
We are the caretakers of an area of 175.000 m², of which almost two-thirds have been used to cultivate eucalyptus monoculture.
We are passionate about revitalising the land and exploring best practices in collaboration with locals.
It is located in Parque Natural do Sudoeste Alentejano e Costa Vicentina, a natural park in south-west Portugal.
The Mira region as a whole is an important protected area of the Portuguese coast and offers a unique opportunity for integrated protection.
In 2019 Quercus the Portuguese association for nature conservation donated 3000 native tree saplings to Jardim Do Mira which were planted to bring in more diversity.
By following the guidelines of syntropic agriculture we started the project by planting a tree nursery from more than 500 seeds and cuttings in 2020. We continue collecting local native seeds. This is an ongoing activity on land.
With our neighbouring community, we cleared the communal drinking water source and planted trees at the locally run escola primaria of the village.

  • Purpose
  • Ecological
  • Languages
  • English
  • French
  • German
  • Hebrew
  • Portuguese (Portugal)
  • Community type
  • Cohousing
  • Coliving
  • Activities
  • Ecological Restoration
  • Education

Commemorative dates

  • January 1, 2019
  • Started living together

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How to join

Get in touch, we will send you information nd then plan a visit and stay with us for at least 2month and meet the members after that an onboarding process starts and you’ll become guardian of the garden on the river Mira (Jardim do Mira). Important to note, that you are not purchasing property but you are becoming a shareholder of the company that owns the land. So you don’t own a part of the land, but as a shareholder, you own a share in the project and will have a voice in the association that develops the project.

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Curso de Bioconstrucción

Queremos ofrecer un Curso en el que aprender, experimentar y profundizar en algunos aspectos de la Bioconstrucción, de manera profesional, familiar y cercana al mismo tiempo. La Bioconstrucción es un campo muy amplio, por eso hemos decidido dividir este curso intensivo en 2 Módulos específicos: El Primer módulo es Fuego y Barro, y en el trabajaremos elementos como: Estufas de masa térmica, hornos de leña, estufas rocket, adobe,….. Aprendiendo a construir con materiales sanos y naturales, adaptados a nuestro hogar y necesidades; para obtener una mayor eficiencia, salud y calidez en nuestro hogar y cuidar el medio ambiente al mismo tiempo. EL segundo módulo es Bioconstrucción: Yurta, domo y cañas., y en este trabajaremos la construcción de estructuras tales como: domo geodésico, yurta, techos de cañizo, arcos y columnas de cañas, que pueden ser utilizadas para construcción de pérgolas, invernaderos, sombreados, escenarios y mucho más….; todo ello con materiales locales vegetales: caña y pita (ágave). Las personas interesadas pueden apuntarse a los dos módulo o también solo a uno, el que más les interese. El grupo va a ser reducido, entre un mínimo de 4 y un máximo de 6 personas; Gran parte del aprendizaje será práctico y de trabajo manual, combinado con momentos de explicación teórica. Incluiremos videos documentales y power points, en algunas tardes y veladas, sobre: estructuras de caña, estufas de masa térmica, trabajo en barro, ….y más aspectos de bioconstrucción en que l@s participantes estén interesad@s. Facilitan Jef Carrick es el profesor principal del curso. Tiene mas de 15 años de experiencia en bioconstruccion en Reino Unido. Durante los ultimos 3 años ha trabajado en España el Proyecto Sunseed enseñando a voluntari@s, como mentor de estudiantes universitari@s y realizando numerosos cursos de bioconstruccion y estufas. Su especialidad son el diseño y construccion de estructuras de caña y otros materiales naturales, así como las estuf

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