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Magic Forest Community in Bulgaria

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About the Communities

  • Established
  • Bulgarian
  • Ecological
  • Rural

Founding year

  • 2015

What we do

We are Stanislav and Diana, a family with three kids ages 1, 5 and 7 and we are hoping to finding like-minded people to join us in co-creating a community of environmentally conscious people who walk gently on Earth and take ownership of our lives, health, education and the planet’s well-being, who have fun together, who share food, work, learning, resources and life’s bounties to the level each one feels appropriate. Since we set up this project, a couple of families have joined us and are in the process of acquiring their own places.
We are based in Bulgaria, an hour South-West of the capital Sofia, in a neighborhood of a village with a lot of abandoned houses, suitable to form a community within the same physical area. We are ready to help out with all legalities connected to purchasing real estate. There is also abandoned land that is currently public property that could be rented from the government and in the future purchased, which is suitable for partitioning and populating at almost no cost with mobile homes. This land is a few parcels – one is 14,000 m2 which includes lots of trees and shrubs (it’s not bare land); there is the magic forest, which is 5,000m2 which is very suitable for a common area for the community; and a few other options.
Even though we are close to Sofia and civilization, the feeling in this neighborhood is that we’re in the wild. The views are mountains, hills, forests, fields and a beautiful lake (Pchelina Dam).
Our personal interests are co-creating with Nature (using intuition and Perelandra’s techniques – http://www.perelandra-ltd.com), permaculture, natural building, natural (home) birth, environmentally sustained technologies, Waldorf/Steiner education, Paneurhythmy, energy medicine, spirituality.
We are hoping for people to join us, so that we can create a sustainable community structure based on our common principles and experience, as well as on existing models and experiences from other communities.

  • Purpose
  • Ecological
  • Languages
  • Bulgarian
  • English
  • Russian
  • Spanish
  • Community type
  • Ecovillage
  • Spiritual Retreat Centers
  • Activities
  • Education

Commemorative dates

  • January 1, 2015
  • Started planning
  • January 1, 2015
  • Started living together
  • Open to new members
  • Open to visitors
Total
5

How to join

If someone would like to join our community, there isn’t anything they ‘should’ do in particular. We are flexible. We can accept guests over a longer period of time until we agree that we are a good match. We are happy to help with acquiring property or joining our common land.

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Magic Forest Community in Bulgaria

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9 years ago

Autumn PDC 2017 Greece, Tinos Island

Autumn 2017 Permaculture Design Course 23 September – 5 October (12 days, 80 hours certificate) Led by Andrew Jordan and Elena Symeonidou We are excited to announce the second FULL PERMACULTURE DESIGN COURSE (PDC) that will be hosted in Tinos Eco-lodge with two knowledgeable teachers Andrew Jordan from Ireland and Elena Symeonidou from Greece. The Permaculture Design Certificate The Permaculture Design Certificate is an 80 hour theoretical course based on Bill Mollison’s Designers Manual, teaching how we can use today’s tools and technology to create a more sustainable world. Permaculture is not only about growing vegetables and animals, it is a whole sustainable lifestyle. Permaculture ethics are Earth Care, People Care and Return of Surplus and this is taught by showing students to focus on local resources and their local community, and to have well thought out design practices to create abundance sustainably. Andrew and Elena aim at inspiring students with their own very real examples of transforming their lives with permaculture in a contemporary context. Having worked in a broad spectrum of climate and social conditions, they will share with their students the thrills but also the challenges they faced. Oftentimes permaculture is being presented as a panacea for world problems and the road to resilience and abundance is depicted as straightforward and easy. Andrew and Elena will challenge this notion and try to prepare their students in a realistic manner for their own fascinating journey towards change. Nikos will share his hands-on experience of building the ecolodge and designing the energy, water, plant and waste systems. We will have the rare opportunity to discuss and elaborate on Nikos’ and Marilia’s choices on different aspects of their project, reflect on the challenges, opportunities and limitations. Anyone who wants to bring a big change in his life and gain a thorough understanding of how we can use our natural e

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