Welcome to
The Garden
The Garden is a world-leading societal model for the healthy, synergic, sovereign life the human heart and psyche ache for, and the planet thrives on. It's home.
The Garden is a not-for-profit eco-village that offers much-needed services, birthed from the impassioned collaboration of 120 (and growing) skilled and loving volunteer therapists, eco-builders and other healing hands.
It features:
A multidisciplinary wholistic health centre the ill can access for free
Rescue animal sanctuary
Garden-to-plate organic vegan kitchen, and
Bookable natural spa, music and healing festivals, event spaces, courses, talks and therapist sessions,
the proceeds from which will sustain The Garden's existence.
Or rather, The Garden will have these features, as we are currently fundraising for the buildings.
Click on the donate button above to contribute.
The Garden is a societal model for those with enough clarity to see that the current standard lifestyle-design is disastrously unnatural, coercive and unsatisfying; enough dynamism to do something about it; and enough love to want 'others' to benefit too.
To those who value love, nature, connection, freedom, progress, self-expansion and rediscovery of the divine sovereign self enough to pursue it, we very happily introduce The Garden.
As far as we know, the world's first not-for-profit off-grid cooperative permacultural community focussing on wholistic healthcare, for free, for all species.
Meet the team here, get involved, or find out how you can visit The Garden and benefit from our services.
Return to
your self
Those of us who remember at least glimpses of who we are, know instinctively that a great rebalancing is essential to our shared success as a guest species on this strange and wonderful Earth. This will be achieved and enjoyed through collaboration, compassion, and engagement with practices and life-systems which reconnect us to our own true nature and to our living home planet and all we share it with.
The Garden comprises 120 (and growing) volunteer staff and collaborators, including world-class and kind-hearted healers, eco-builders, permacultural consultants, veterinarians and social entrepreneurs. We have secured enough donations from like-minded generous souls who recognise the world's need for The Garden, to hopefully secure land purchase this year, 2021.
Now we need help to fund the buildings and infrastructure. That's the staff, patient and visitor eco-accommodation, food forest, sustainable power systems, covered healing areas, natural spa, animal enclosure, kitchen and other features.
We have planned the layout and features like this
(click play for a 3D guided tour):
Features (on laptops/desktops: hover over each structure for more information):
'BOOCH BAR'
Kombucha, coconut kefir, smoothies, other health drinks
HYDRO-ELECTRIC POWER PLANT
Turbines (submerged / waterwheel), generator, battery bank
KITCHEN
Food preparation
room, serving
counter
PERMACULTURAL
FOOD GARDENS
Fruits - trees and bushes
FOOD & EQUIPMENT
storage shed
COMMUNAL
EATING AREA
Open-sided,
bench lines,
central firepit
TOILET BLOCK
Composting
TOILET BLOCK
Composting
SPA
Acoustic herbal steam room, sauna, hot tubs, temazcal, small firepit, firewood storage
RIVER BEACH
Sand brought in.
Hammocks at edges
LARGE FIREPIT
and firewood store
ECO-HOUSE
Bedroom, bathroom.
For staff / patients / visitors
PERMA-CULTURAL
FOOD GARDENS
Vegetables, spices, herbs (including medicinal)
SACRED
ENCLOSED SPACE
Initially: tipi, later: pyramid. Large enclosed multipurpose room. Ceremony, events
ECO-HOUSE
Bedroom, bathroom.
For staff / patients / visitors
ECO-HOUSE
Bedroom, bathroom.
For staff / patients / visitors
AUDITORIUM
Talks, seminars,
films
ECO-HOUSE
Bedroom, bathroom.
For staff / patients / visitors
COMMUNAL
HEALING SPACE
Large open-sided canopy. Dance, yoga, music, massage, workshops, ceremony, relaxation space
PRIVATE TREATMENT ROOM
Natural materials,
no corners
ECO-HOUSE
Bedroom, bathroom.
For staff / patients / visitors
TOILET BLOCK
Composting
ECO-HOUSE
Bedroom, bathroom.
For staff / patients / visitors
DORMITORY
BLOCK
To accommodate groups / extra people
ECO-HOUSE
Bedroom, bathroom.
For staff / patients / visitors
ECO-HOUSE
Bedroom, bathroom.
For staff / patients / visitors
ECO-HOUSE
Bedroom, bathroom.
For staff / patients / visitors
ECO-HOUSE
Bedroom, bathroom.
For staff / patients / visitors
RESCUE ANIMAL SANCTUARY
ANIMAL FOOD & EQUIPMENT
storage shed
Food
Permacultural food garden - fruits, vegetables, spices, herbs including medicinal herbs, aloe vera. At inner edge of this:
Food and equipment storage shed. Next to:
Kitchen. Next to:
Communal eating space - open-sided, benches in lines, firepit in centre (for warmth, good energy)
Compost toilet blocks (near busier areas, but far away enough to avoid drifting smells)
"Booch Bar": kombucha and other health drinks available
Human health spaces
Auditorium - talks, seminars, films
Communal healing space - open-sided, perhaps large canopy - dance, yoga, music, massage, workshops, relaxation space
Private treatment room (more as we expand) - walls (of natural material) for privacy and feelings of safety and focus, crystals
Sacred space - for meditation, ceremonies, rituals. Initially: large tipi, later: pyramid
Spa area
Acoustic herbal steam room
Hot tub x 2
Floatation tank
Smaller firepit
Wood store
Temascal (Native American sweat lodge)
Waterfront
Beach at river-stream edge (sand brought in if insufficient on site)
Larger Firepit
Wood store
Non-human health spaces
Fenced area for animals
Feed and equipment storage shed
Accommodation
10 x 2-person (patient / guest / staff + partner) small (approx. 5m) round eco-house with en suite bathroom, spaced for privacy, quiet and calm. More as we expand.
Dormitory block - to accommodate groups / extra people before more individual houses are built
Electricity
Hydroelectric plant - submerged fish-friendly turbines, waterwheel connected to generator and battery bank in shed away from beach. Individual solar systems will also be installed for certain buildings.
Other
Many lights - outdoor fairy lights in Trees, lanterns, chandelier under a Tree, etc.
Hammocks between Trees
Land art - objects made of natural and/or reclaimed materials - dumped car as flower bed, dragon made of pallets and fallen branches, etc.
When values and focus are shared and are good,
An odd thing occurs that perhaps always should:
A Magick will grow when friends build together -
We create the world, we make our own weather.
Sometimes we're fooled into thinking we're small,
Forgetting our choice and our power and all.
But when we link hands and we rise up in love,
We feel reconnection to things high above.
In joining our forces, we recall the feeling
Of All being One, and everything healing.
A positive feedback loop if you will.
Then whatever you do, you're on top of the hill.
OUR LOCATION
Nirvana, In the Hills, Near the Sea, Portugal
Exact location TBC 2021
