Monte do Valhinos
An eco-coliving project
The co-living project
Valinhos is part of Monte do Aniche where the co housing project is being born.
We are completely off-grid, using solar energy and water from a borehole and the water reservoirs that we created to enreach the ground water.
We would love to find families and individuals that want to use this place while taking care of it or rent it by need.
In The communal building there is a wonderful yoga room which can be used for personal development, gatherings, events and workshops.
Next to it, the shared kitchen which at the moment is the kitchen for volunteers and campers.
And at the other end there is the kids rooms for homeschooling project or after school meetings.
Near by there are also two compost toilets, two mobile containers, mobile house with two bedrooms and three caravans for short term accommodation (capacity approximately max 15 people).
The land of Monte do Aniche
This part of the project consists of 50 hectares of Eucalyptus monoculture which we are regenerating. By gradually thinning out the eucalyptus, not allowing the commercial machines to come back and thanks to the still existing seed bank in the soil provided by nature, trees are already coming through, which means bringing back the mixed forest of oaks and medronho is well on its way.
We have started on the vegetable gardens, nursury for local tree bank, herbs and fruit trees have been planted as well as fire-retardant plants such as Cork oaks, Yukkas etc and we also have one lake nearby the Communal House.