Self sufficient living in Portugal

Are you interested in self sufficient or self sustainable living? Florago offers unique opportunities for self sufficient living:

• rent 2 hectares of land in central Portugal for your private use (€390 per month; minimum 2 years)
• cooperative self sustainable living on 4 hectares of land with 4 other participants (€250 per month; minimum 1 year)
• tryout 1 month living in nature and developing a homestead (€690 per month per person including food)

Florago is developing a small community where every participant has their own private space in Portugal. You will be living in the quiet of nature and growing your own vegetables, fruits, nuts, olives and herbs. You can live in a caravan, camper van, yurt or build your own tiny house.

In 2024, we bought 9 hectares of land near Penamacor in Portugal. One part is open countryside with a small lake in the middle and some 70 mature olive trees (Lago). The other part is 2/3 feral forest with cork oak, olive and lots of gorse and 1/3 arable land (Floresta). There is no building or ruin on the land, no electricity connection and no running water. In short, it is pure nature and we want to keep it that way as much as possible.

Florago is an oasis of peace in one of the last quiet areas in Europe. We want both ourselves and the Florago participants to enjoy this meditative silence, nature and the views of the surroundings and the Estrelas Mountains. From Florago you can do great hiking and MTB cycling in an undiscovered area. After the hike, you can take a dip in the small lake on the land or in the stream a little further away.

Travel a little further and visit beautiful authentic mountain villages like Montsanto and Penamacor. And within an hour’s drive you are in the high mountains of the Estrelas, Portugal’s highest mountains with numerous hiking trails.

We are developing the land at Florago based on the principles of permaculture design and organic farming. So working with nature instead of against nature and no use of synthetic fertilisers or pesticides. We are creating a diverse food forest with fruits, nuts, berries and herbs. Every year, we plant about 200 more trees and shrubs. So once the food forest becomes productive, we can all enjoy these yields. By eating them directly or if the production is high enough, by preserving them together for later use. Last autumn, we harvested and preserved our first olives and they are amazing.

If you are interested, please contact us on info@florago.org and we can set up on online meeting to get to know each other.