LEARNING EXPERIENCE AT A QUINTA DA LAGE
A Quinta da Lage is a regenerative eco farm based in the coastal natural park in South Western Alentejo, Portugal. The project was founded in 2014 by Ferry who set himself on a journey of restoring the land using different regenerative agriculture and permaculture methods while also learning to understand what it takes to build a healthy community.
A Quinta would like to inspire anyone interested in nature, permaculture and food production by spreading knowledge and promoting regenerative practices through our internship programs, open days, workshops & courses.
Our holistic vision is to create a regenerative landscape for the production of food and fibre in a way that benefits all life. To be a place of learning where participants find purpose leading to meaningful actions and personal growth.
A Quinta is welcoming everyone who resonates with such a vision, to come and create new pathways and solutions for the future. We strive to help people on their journey of self-discovery, where community building plays a key role. Our main goal is to initiate a world movement of cultural, land, and social transformation - to be part of the change that we want to see in the world by providing an approach, principles, and tools that unlock opportunities, as we believe together we can reach further.
Our courses are designed for all those looking to learn about themselves, build communities or simply looking to connect more with nature or reduce their ecological footprint.
PERMACULTURE DESIGN COURSES
Regenerative design, resilience, ACTION BASED SOLUTIONS.
A PDC is an internationally recognised, 72-hour theory course resulting in a Permaculture Design Certificate. It provides an introduction to permaculture design and serves as a foundation for further permaculture work. It changes the way we view and design our landscape, our surroundings, our relationships and our daily lives so we can grow the revolution that our planet needs.
Expect to gain practical solutions for the challenges of today, and immerse yourself in a transformative journey designed for yourself, your community and the planet.
More info about upcoming workshops here.
Please watch this video to understand the course experience felt last summer and to meet the facilitators:
NATURAL BUiLDING COURSES
natural building, COMMUNITY, empowerment.
Building a home with natural materials is an empowering, humbling and inspiring experience. You will connect with the earth, with yourself, with one another and with these ancient building techniques which are silently ingrained in all of us; as a group you will tap into this forgotten knowledge and bring to life the knowledge and skills to create your own home.
This workshop is for your personal development and is designed so that every individual walks away feeling inspired and confident to continue to build with earth and with the ethics of ecological house design.
More info about upcoming workshops here.
Please watch this video to understand how the course experience felt last summer and to meet the facilitators:
Community oriented courses and workshops
TEAM BUILDING, CO-OPERATION, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT.
We are striving to offer more courses and workshops around how to support personal development and group processes, for clarifying visions and purpose and discovering deeper needs of an individual and a collective.
Deep listening, conflict management, collective decision making, co-operative learning combined with a wisdom inherently present in each participant, we are bringing people together to learn how to relate, build trust, communicate honestly and clearly; how to connect with ourselves and one another in a way that benefits all and brings more embodied sense of belonging with our close environment and our planet.
More info about upcoming workshops here.
