The Garden
Vegetables and herbs for the household, grown seasonally and with respect for the soil. The layout will follow the land, water and daily working rhythm.
The Homestead
A place for growing, making and gathering.
These are plans, not finished claims. Over time, each part should support an ordinary, resilient life on the land.
The social heart
Cozinha Comum
The common kitchen is planned as a permanent, generous building with preparation space, pantry storage, indoor seating and a long shared table. It should be warm enough for winter and open enough for summer.
Large folding doors will connect it directly to a covered terrace with shade, plants, comfortable seating and room for slow outdoor meals.
WinterDoors closed · warm shared room
SummerDoors open · life moves outside
A living system
What we are creating
The Orchard
Fruit and perennial crops that can settle into the landscape, provide shade and offer food beyond the annual garden.
The Harvest
Food for the homestead first. Useful surplus may eventually be shared or sold directly in simple local ways.
The Workshop
A practical place to maintain, repair and make things. A homestead depends as much on fixing as it does on building.
Water
Rainwater collection, efficient irrigation and careful use. We want to understand movement and storage before committing to permanent systems.
Energy
A high degree of self-sufficiency, paired with sensible backups where reliability and safety matter.
More than scenery
Nature is not a backdrop.
The land will remain the heart of the project. The aim is to protect and gradually improve it: work with existing trees and habitats, observe before intervening, and let tourism remain a very small part of a much larger living system.
That work will be slow, imperfect and specific to the place. We will share what we learn without dressing every decision up as a grand sustainability claim.
A map that keeps changing
Observe, then build.
Sun, shade, wind, access, soil and water all have something to say about where things belong. The current plan will keep evolving as we spend more time with the land.
See the decisions unfold in the Journal →