<h2><em>A 14‑day deep dive into regenerative food production</em></h2><p><em>The land is the classroom. The village is the teacher.</em></p><p>What if learning meant planting trees, digging ponds, turning compost and co‑creating a living ecosystem with a community of like‑minded pioneers? What if the classroom had no walls—just sun, soil, seeds, stories and shared meals under the stars? Welcome to <strong>Hands‑On Permaculture 101</strong>, an immersive two‑week experience where learning is alive, physical, emotional and collective. It’s a journey into what’s possible when humans reconnect to the land—and to each other—through the lens of permaculture and regenerative design.</p><p>🍅 <strong>What you’ll do</strong></p><p>This isn’t theory‑only. We learn by doing—and everything you learn will be grounded in the soil, the systems and the soul of this land. You’ll:</p><ul><li>Plant food forests and learn the language of trees</li><li>Build compost systems (chicken‑powered, hot piles, humanure and more)</li><li>Solve irrigation challenges and dig swales by hand</li><li>Explore natural building methods like cob, adobe, strawbale and earthbags</li><li>Visit other regenerative projects across Alentejo</li><li>Cook, harvest, ferment and eat together</li><li>Observe, map and design—guided by permaculture ethics and principles</li><li>Get muddy, inspired, challenged and reconnected</li></ul><p>💡 <strong>What you’ll learn</strong></p><p>Alongside the practical work, we’ll explore:</p><ul><li>The foundations of permaculture ethics &amp; design</li><li>Water harvesting and land regeneration techniques</li><li>Regenerative urban design + off‑grid strategies</li><li>Soil building, composting and food resilience</li><li>Renewable energy, appropriate technology and bioconstruction</li><li>Community building and collective decision‑making</li><li>How to apply regenerative design—in your home, land or project</li></ul><p>🌀 <strong>Why this course is different</strong></p><p>We’re not teaching from a book. We’re building the book as we go. This is TDF’s first edition—a co‑created, living course in a living village. You won’t be a passive student—you’ll be a contributor, a question‑asker, a friend and a builder of something real. We believe education should:</p><ul><li>Heal the land</li><li>Strengthen communities</li><li>Be joyful, practical and embodied</li><li>Invite curiosity, not perfection</li><li>Leave you changed—from the soil up</li></ul><p>👥 <strong>Who is this for?</strong></p><p>You don’t need any prior experience—just curiosity, a willingness to show up, and a love for the Earth. Whether you’re a regen wanting to go from theory to action, a degen seeking meaning beyond screens, a dreamer looking to build your own village or a designer, artist, farmer, hacker or wanderer—you’ll find your place here.</p><p>🌿 <strong>You’ll leave with:</strong></p><ul><li>Tools to start or support a regenerative land project</li><li>A deeper understanding of natural systems</li><li>The confidence to compost, plant, design and build</li><li>New friends and networks across Europe and beyond</li><li>A body tired from the sun and a heart full of purpose</li></ul><p>📍 <strong>Location</strong></p><p>Traditional Dream Factory is a regenerative village in the making—built on a former chicken factory and surrounded by cork oak hills, olive trees and endless sky. We’re 1.5 hours from Lisbon, near the Atlantic coast, and part of a growing ecosystem of regenerative projects in Alentejo.</p><p>🗓 <strong>14 days | 🍽 Meal package available | 🛏 Accommodation options available</strong></p><p>Spots are limited—this is a small, intimate experience.</p><p>👉 <strong>Apply now</strong> and we’ll send you full details + pricing: traditionaldreamfactory.com/events/permaculture101</p><p>Or reach out directly at space@traditionaldreamfactory.com</p><h2><strong>🌾 Full Program Breakdown</strong></h2><h2><em>The land is the classroom. The village is the teacher.</em></h2><h3><strong>Day 1 — Welcome to the Ecosystem</strong></h3><p><strong>Saturday, Nov 1</strong></p><p>We open with intention. Meet your fellow learners, explore the land, and begin to sense the system you’re stepping into.</p><ul><li>Opening circle: welcome, agreements, and group intro</li><li>Intro to permaculture: ethics, values, and the story so far</li><li>TDF land tour: past, present, and dreams-in-motion</li><li>Observation exercise: "see like a seed"</li><li>🌙 <em>Optional: quiet evening around the fire</em></li></ul><h3><strong>Day 2 — Soil &amp; Waste Alchemy</strong></h3><p><strong>Sunday, Nov 2</strong></p><p>Waste becomes a resource. Life begins in the compost pile.</p><ul><li>The problem with waste, the gift of cycles</li><li>Building hot compost, humanure, and chicken-powered systems</li><li>Vermicompost, bokashi, compost tea</li><li>Hands-on: making a compost pile in the chicken coop</li><li>Tour of TDF's nutrient cycles</li><li>🧖 <em>Evening: Sauna session under the stars</em></li><li><br></li></ul><h3><strong>Day 3 — Gardens as Systems</strong></h3><p><strong>Monday, Nov 3</strong></p><p>Designing gardens that yield more than food — they grow resilience.</p><ul><li>What is a yield? What is a function?</li><li>Designing veggie gardens: sun, slope, water, wind</li><li>Companion planting, seed cycles, accessibility</li><li>Urban permaculture and micro-systems</li><li>🌱 Hands-on: garden bed planning + planting</li><li>🍶 <em>Bonus: fermentation workshop in the evening</em></li><li><br></li></ul><h3><strong>Day 4 — Water is Life</strong></h3><p><strong>Tuesday, Nov 4</strong></p><p>Where the water flows, life follows.</p><ul><li>Mapping land with water in mind</li><li>Water harvesting principles and practices</li><li>Swales, ponds, terraces, check dams</li><li>Roofs, gutters, tanks &amp; french drains</li><li>Hands-on: digging swales + winter pond project</li><li>🧖 <em>Evening: Sauna + Sharing Circle</em></li><li><br></li></ul><h3><strong>Day 5 — Diversity is Stability</strong></h3><p><strong>Wednesday, Nov 5</strong></p><p>Monocultures are fragile — in farms and in society.</p><ul><li>Embracing ecological and human diversity</li><li>"Weeds" as teachers and allies</li><li>Refugees in ecosystems and communities</li><li>Tour of another regenerative project (e.g. Tamera or similar)</li><li>🌍 Group reflection: what’s thriving at the edge?</li></ul><h3><strong>Day 6 — Small is Beautiful</strong></h3><p><strong>Thursday, Nov 6</strong></p><p>Solutions don’t need to be big — they need to be appropriate.</p><ul><li>Small-scale tech: micro-hydro, solar, heating people not spaces</li><li>Biochar, KNF, and living soil principles</li><li>No-dig beds and mulch layering</li><li>Hands-on: soil regeneration &amp; check dam building</li><li>🚿 <em>Outdoor eco-shower jam (and optional mud play)</em></li></ul><h3><strong>Day 7 — Rest &amp; Integration</strong></h3><p><strong>Friday, Nov 7</strong></p><p>We pause to absorb, rest, and let it sink in.</p><ul><li>Optional nature solo / land meditation</li><li>Journaling, naps, hammocks, slow walks</li><li>Casual Q&amp;A with the course team</li><li>🫱 Evening: informal storytelling and music around the fire</li></ul><h3><strong>Day 8 — Building With Nature</strong></h3><p><strong>Saturday, Nov 8</strong></p><p>Let the walls breathe and the sun heat your home.</p><ul><li>Bioconstruction: passive solar design, adobe, cob, strawbale</li><li>Greywater systems: banana circles, mulch beds, outdoor showers</li><li>Solar workshop: parabolic mirrors, solar dryers, water heaters</li><li>Hands-on: clay, sand &amp; sweat</li><li>🌞 <em>DIY building practice session</em></li></ul><h3><strong>Day 9 — Forest Thinking</strong></h3><p><strong>Sunday, Nov 9</strong></p><p>Understand the forest, and you understand time.</p><ul><li>Natural succession &amp; the 6 forest strata</li><li>Guilds, pioneer species, and layered planting</li><li>What is a food forest, really?</li><li>Field work: observation &amp; planting in reforestation zones</li><li>🧖 <em>Evening: Sauna &amp; Slow Talks</em></li></ul><h3><strong>Day 10 — Edges &amp; Fire</strong></h3><p><strong>Monday, Nov 10</strong></p><p>Design begins where things meet.</p><ul><li>Edges as opportunity zones: ecological &amp; social</li><li>Fire safety and land management</li><li>Planting firebreaks and jungle hedges</li><li>Hands-on: jungle hedges &amp; slope work</li><li>💻 <em>Intro to permaculture tools (QGIS, Google Earth, Complex Earth, PFaf, etc.)</em></li></ul><h3><strong>Day 11 — Patterns &amp; Mushrooms</strong></h3><p><strong>Tuesday, Nov 11</strong></p><p>From fractals to fungi, nature repeats what works.</p><ul><li>Patterns in nature: spirals, branches, nets, waves</li><li>Growing mushrooms and mycelium as infrastructure</li><li>Building agricultural terraces: ancient methods, modern tools</li><li>🍄 <em>Hands-on: mushroom inoculation workshop</em></li><li>🧖 <em>Evening: Sauna + Sharing Circle</em></li></ul><h3><strong>Day 12 — Zones, Grids &amp; Systems</strong></h3><p><strong>Wednesday, Nov 12</strong></p><p>Design is not art — it’s aligned intention.</p><ul><li>Zoning in permaculture: from kitchen to wilderness</li><li>Systems that support each other (and fail gracefully)</li><li>Hands-on: propagation workshop in the greenhouse</li><li>Web3 and permaculture: open tools for land stewards</li><li>💬 Open circle: “How do we take this home?”</li></ul><h3><strong>Day 13 — Resilience &amp; Chaos</strong></h3><p><strong>Thursday, Nov 13</strong></p><p>Things break. Storms come. Regeneration is anti-fragile.</p><ul><li>Designing for disaster: drought, fire, war, collapse</li><li>Permaculture responses to crisis</li><li>Visit to a cutting-edge regen project (e.g. Terra Syntropica)</li><li>🌳 Reflection walk: “How does a forest respond to change?”</li></ul><h3><strong>Day 14 — Return to the Whole</strong></h3><p><strong>Friday, Nov 14</strong></p><p>We close as we began — together.</p><ul><li>Group design challenge: map a small permaculture system</li><li>Final reflections and visioning</li><li>Rewilding ourselves: embodied nature practice</li><li>Course closing circle: stories, feedback, gratitude</li><li>🍽️ <strong>Cooking Extravaganza Feast</strong>: we harvest, we prep, we feast together — celebration style!</li><li>🔥 Fire + music + stars to seal the journey</li></ul><p>Can't make it in person? <a href="https://www.traditionaldreamfactory.com/learn/permaculture-101" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Check our online session</a>.</p><p>🍄 <strong>Bonus: Fungi Course – </strong><a href="https://www.traditionaldreamfactory.com/events/-mycelial-mastery-7-day-mushroom-cultivation-retreat" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Discover the World of Mushrooms</strong></a></p><p>Shortly after Permaculture 101, we’re offering a week long <strong>Fungi Course</strong> to kick off our mushroom farm. This intensive is co‑hosted by <strong>Richard</strong> from Fungi Academy and <strong>Tonya</strong>, our in‑house mushroom grower. You’ll dive into mycology essentials: understanding mycelium networks, learning sterile lab techniques, inoculating substrates, and cultivating gourmet and medicinal mushrooms. We’ll also explore how fungi integrate into syntropic forestry and soil regeneration.</p><p>Permaculture workshop participants receive a special discount on the Fungi Course—it’s the perfect way to round out your learning and deepen your relationship with the unseen web that nourishes our ecosystems. Stay on for the whole month of November, get discounted access to both events, and expand your skillset while helpubg us launch the next chapter of TDF’s regenerative journey!</p>

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<p>Learn to grow gourmet, medicinal, and ecological mushrooms in an immersive retreat setting!&nbsp;</p><p>Our journey will begin working with the microscopic spores of the mushrooms, guiding you through each process all the way to completion of harvesting the fresh fruiting bodies.&nbsp;</p><p>This week-long course combines deep technical training with daily wellness practices, field experience, and community connection to fellow mushroom lovers and enthusiasts.&nbsp;</p><p>You’ll leave with the skills to start cultivating at home, contribute to regenerative projects, 2 TDF mushroom cultures, and a <strong>Fungiculture NFT certificate</strong>—your soul-bound proof of completion and membership in TDF’s mycelial network.</p><h3><strong>🌞Daily Rhythm</strong></h3><ul><li><strong>Morning Practice</strong>: Yoga with Tonya / Breathwork with Richard (optional)</li><li><strong>Learning Sessions</strong>: Hands-on and theory blocks each day</li><li><strong>Evening Circles</strong>: Integration, Q&amp;A, and community building</li><li><strong>Special Activities</strong>: Field experiences and creative breaks to give your brain (and body) space</li></ul><h3><strong>📅 Course Schedule</strong></h3><p><strong>Day 1 – Arrival &amp; Orientation (Sunday)</strong></p><ul><li>Welcome to TDF, Arrivals and Check-ins</li><li>Opening circle, and setting intentions</li><li>Tour of TDF, the mushroom farm &amp; temporary container lab setup</li><li>Community dinner</li><li>Sauna</li></ul><p><strong>Day 2 – Mycology &amp; Lab Prep (Monday)</strong></p><ul><li>Morning Practice: Yoga with Tonya</li><li>Breakfast</li><li>Intro to Fungi: Lifecycles, anatomy, and their ecological role</li><li>Lunch</li><li>Intro to Cultivation</li><li>Preparing Agar and Liquid Cultures</li><li>Pasteurization Techniques: Cold water lime and steam pasteurization</li><li>Dinner</li></ul><p><strong>Day 3 – Sterile Lab Work (Tuesday)</strong></p><ul><li>Morning Practice: Breathwork with Richard</li><li>Breakfast</li><li>Agar work: Spore prints, Liquid cultures, Agar to Agar, and Cloning</li><li>Lunch</li><li>Preparing Grain Spawn</li><li>Identifying Contamination</li><li>Dinner</li><li>Evening: circle &amp; storytelling around fungi in culture</li></ul><p><strong>Day 4 –Grain Spawn and Substrates&nbsp;(Wednesday)</strong></p><ul><li>Morning Practice: Yoga with Tonya</li><li>Breakfast</li><li>Producing Grain Spawn</li><li>Lunch</li><li>Substrates and Mushroom Varieties</li><li>Straining Lime Pasteurized Substrates</li><li>Dinner</li><li><strong>Afternoon Fun</strong>: Surprise!</li></ul><p><strong>Day 5 – Outdoor Cultivation &amp; Permaculture (Thursday)</strong></p><ul><li>Morning Practice: Warm up and Intro to Contact Improvisation</li><li>Field walk at TDF: wild mushroom ID &amp; ecological roles</li><li>Lunch&nbsp;</li><li>Hot water Pasteurization</li><li>Outdoor Passive Cultivation: Logs, stumps, and beds</li><li>Added Value Products: Medicine and Nutrition</li><li>Integrating Fungi into agroforestry &amp; syntropic systems</li><li>Dinner</li><li>Evening circle: reflection &amp; integration</li></ul><p><strong>Day 6 – Medicinal &amp; Value-Added Products (Friday)</strong></p><ul><li>Morning Practice: Yoga with Tonya</li><li>Breakfast</li><li>Monotub Demo</li><li>Lunch</li><li>Mushroom bag inoculations: Pasteurized and Sterilized Innoculations</li><li>Fruiting Room Design</li><li>Micro-farm models: budgets, yields, and market opportunities</li><li>Cooperative and community approaches to mushroom ventures</li><li>Dinner</li></ul><p><strong>Day 7 – Business, Community &amp; Closing (Saturday)</strong></p><ul><li>Breakfast</li><li>Integration: each participant presents a mini-project plan</li><li>Closing circle &amp; <strong>issuance of Fungiculture NFT certification</strong></li></ul><h3><strong>💡 What You’ll Gain</strong></h3><ul><li>Complete hands-on experience across the cultivation cycle</li><li>Accessible methods for home growers (still-air box, lime pasteurization)</li><li>Insights into scaling up with modular farm systems</li><li>A supportive network of peers &amp; mentors</li><li>Forever access to our cohorts Signal group to stay connected, share your progress, and ask guidance.</li><li><strong>2 Liquid Cultures of TDFs varieties of mushrooms to get your cultivation journey started</strong></li><li>A <strong>Fungiculture NFT certificate</strong> (soul-bound, non-transferable) linking you to TDF’s global mycelial commons</li></ul><h3><strong>💶 Investment</strong></h3><ul><li><strong>€599</strong> (course only).</li><li>Discounts available for participants combining with the November permaculture course or full month-long residency.</li></ul><h3><strong>Who This Course Is For</strong></h3><p>This deep‑dive is perfect for aspiring mushroom farmers, herbalists, healers, permaculturists, food forest stewards, and anyone seeking to weave fungi into their livelihoods and communities.&nbsp;</p><p>Whether you’re starting from scratch or expanding on prior experience, you’ll finish empowered to cultivate mushrooms sustainably, share your knowledge—and proudly display your Fungiculture NFT as proof of your mycelial mastery.</p><p><img src="https://oasa.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com/photo/68e3b1356c76317e6c7d4efe-max-lg.jpg"></p><h3><strong>About Richard</strong></h3><p>Richard Olson discovered mushroom cultivation through self‑education and hands‑on experimentation. He now teaches courses ranging from weekend intensives to week‑long retreats and one‑on‑one mentorship. His background includes business restructuring, ecovillage governance and off‑grid infrastructure, giving him a holistic approach to sustainable living. Richard has cultivated a wide range of species—including Oysters, Lion’s mane, Shiitake, Reishi, Chestnut, Tiger Sawgill, and Cordyceps—and brings years of experience in community education and regenerative project design.</p>

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<h2>Overview</h2><p>Join us for an intensive, month-long journey into the heart of regenerative design and fungal alchemy. This unique programme merges the hands-on permaculture foundations of our <em>“Hands-On Permaculture 101”</em> track with the advanced fungal cultivation and mycelial systems explored in <em>“Mycelial Mastery – 7-Day Mushroom Cultivation Retreat”.</em></p><p>Over four weeks, participants will work, learn and co-create a living, integrated ecosystem — building agroforestry food-forests, implementing syntropic systems, and designing mushroom cultivation networks that nourish soil, people and planet.</p><p>This month long program includes the two events below:</p><ul><li>Hands‑On Permaculture 101 — <a href="https://www.traditionaldreamfactory.com/events/permaculture101?utm_source=chatgpt.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">View event details</a></li><li>Mycelial Mastery – 7‑Day Mushroom Cultivation Retreat — <a href="https://www.traditionaldreamfactory.com/events/-mycelial-mastery-7-day-mushroom-cultivation-retreat?utm_source=chatgpt.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">View event details</a></li></ul><p><br></p><h2>Who is this for?</h2><p>This immersive training is designed for:</p><ul><li>Regenerative agriculture practitioners, designers and students keen to deepen their skills.</li><li>Community builders, eco-village organisers and permaculture educators seeking system-level fluency.</li><li>Mushroom cultivators wanting to situate their work within broader ecosystem thinking.</li><li>Impact-oriented people (social entrepreneurs, educators, change-agents) ready to roll up their sleeves and live, breathe and build together for a month.</li></ul><h2>What you’ll do</h2><h3>Weeks 1-2: Foundations of Regenerative Design</h3><p>You’ll dive into the “Hands-On Permaculture 101” curriculum:</p><ul><li>Site observation, zoning, and landscape reading.</li><li>Building syntropic agroforestry systems: multilayered canopy, guilds, perennial design.</li><li>Installing key infrastructure: swales, ponds (yes, your IBC-tank-pond ideas apply), and living soil systems.</li><li>Weekly sharing circle (Tuesdays) and sauna session (Sundays) to integrate experience and deepen community.</li><li>Organic cooking extravaganza on the final Saturday of this phase — hands in the soil, hands in the pot.</li></ul><h3>Weeks 3-4: Mycelial Systems &amp; Mushroom Cultivation</h3><p>Building on the fungal fundamentals from the “Mycelial Mastery” retreat:</p><ul><li>Setting up inoculation labs: spawn preparation, substrate design, sterile technique, log and bag systems.</li><li>Designing mycelial networks integrated into agro-ecosystems: wood-chip beds, living logs, companion plantings, bio-char synergy.</li><li>Harvest, processing and value-addition: from species selection through to extract-making, tinctures or compost teas.</li><li>Field walks, fungal foraging, microbiome mapping of soils, and community lab time.</li><li>End of month celebratory saunter and final sharing circle: show your project, present your system, co-create next-step pathways.</li></ul><h2>Curriculum Highlights</h2><ul><li><strong>Daily thematic modules</strong>: alternating morning theory + afternoon practical build/work.</li><li><strong>Bi-weekly sharing circles</strong>: Tuesdays &amp; Sundays, to gather insights, release challenges, tune into group flow.</li><li><strong>Sauna sessions</strong>: integrated body-mind regeneration combined with nature immersion (aligned with your note of sauna on Sundays &amp; Tuesdays).</li><li><strong>Final weekend cooking-extravaganza</strong>: team-cooked communal meal celebrating harvests from permaculture plots and fungal systems.</li><li><strong>Portfolio project</strong>: each participant will design and implement a “living system” (e.g., a mushroom-agroforestry guild, or a pond-mycelium filtration loop) and present it at end-of-month showcase.</li></ul><h2>Learning Outcomes</h2><p>By the end, you will:</p><ul><li>Be fluent in designing and implementing syntropic agroforestry food-forests suited to Mediterranean-Atlantic climate.</li><li>Have hands-on experience establishing and managing mushroom cultivation systems (indoor/outdoor) and integrating them into regenerative ecosystems.</li><li>Understand soil-fungi-plant-water interconnections, and be capable of designing “living machines” (pond → gravel/bio-char filtration → pool/plant zone) that you’ve already conceptualised.</li><li>Be part of a like-minded community of learners and builders, and leave with a project portfolio + next-step roadmap for your own site or community.</li><li>Gain the network, tools and mindset to build regenerative enterprises, myco-agro systems, or community hubs.</li></ul><h2>Includes</h2><ul><li>Full programme of training, facilitation and materials.</li><li>Accommodation options (shared &amp; private) on-site at TDF (rates apply).</li><li>Access to communal kitchen, sauna, greenhouse, pond/plant zones, and mushroom labs.</li><li>All workshop materials, seeds/spawn, tools, site infrastructure budget.</li><li>Optional add-ons: one-on-one mentoring, token-governance workshop for your community (makes sense given your web3 work).</li></ul><h2>Investment &amp; Registration</h2><p>Early-bird registration opens now. Spaces are limited to ensure deep engagement and personal mentorship. Accommodation is booked separately; please contact us for availability and pricing.</p><h2>Why TDF?</h2><p>TDF is the first village of the OASA Network, located in Abela, Portugal. It’s a living laboratory for regenerative architecture, agroecology and community governance. Bring your vision — and leave with a functional living system, a cohort of collaborators, and a roadmap to scale.</p>

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Strategic land acquisition in prime Portuguese location

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Offering 5% interest loans with 4+ year payback terms for infrastructure development, co-living construction, and sustainable technology implementation.

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Investment details for Traditional Dream Factory.

100-guest event venue, 10 luxury glamping tents, 7kW solar array

Operational Infrastructure:

2,000 mixed-species trees planted, 1,000-tree food forest, grey-water treatment wetlands, Open Forest Protocol carbon tracking, Simplex DNA eDNA biodiversity monitoring

Environmental Assets:

Starlink internet, booking platform, $TDF token launch, DAO governance prototype

Technology Platform:

Natural swimming pool (90% complete), rain-harvest storage tank, lake excavation

Water Infrastructure:

14 en-suite co-living rooms, farm-to-table restaurant, commercial kitchen

Hospitality Expansion:

Mushroom farm (50% complete), co-housing development, ecosystem credits

Revenue Diversification:

Zoning process for cohousing, expanded token-holder benefits, bank payment integration

Community Growth:

"Silo hobbit houses," tree-house concepts, advanced water management

Sustainability Innovation:

From agroforestry to co-housing, your investment powers TDF 2.0 — a commons-based economy rooted in resilience. Explore our impact investment opportunity.

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Seeking philanthropic grants to accelerate environmental infrastructure, community development, and regenerative agriculture initiatives with measurable social and environmental impact.

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Successfully secured private debt financing for infrastructure development

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Foundation year achievements and initial infrastructure development

2021 Annual Report

Operational co-living launch and environmental infrastructure

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Water infrastructure development and fundraising achievements

2024 Annual Report

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Two parallel tracks: Co-living in build phase, Co-housing in planning phase.

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TDF Data Room

Growing community of 273 committed stakeholders and early adopters

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Support our regenerative ecosystem through $TDF tokens. Token holders gain access to discounted stays, exclusive events, governance rights, and environmental impact as returns.

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Your investment directly funds regenerative community infrastructure: completing 14 co-living suites, establishing a farm-to-table restaurant, and acquiring 25ha of land for regenerative agriculture. Every euro invested creates measurable environmental and social impact.

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Currently in the zoning phase for 23 houses (50-144 m2) for the cohousing development, featuring shared regenerative agriculture, community facilities, and DAO governance.

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Five hectares, cowork, glamping, pizza nights, sunset sauna. Suites, restaurant, and mushroom lab on the way.

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4 000+ trees are already rooting the soil, with 10 000 more fruit and nut trees—almonds, olives, citrus, berries—on the blueprint. Contour swales capture rain, feeding our existing and planned lakes and keeping the land lush year‑round. Our strictly organic methods rely on compost and natural pest control, turning excess biomass into biochar that locks away carbon while boosting fertility—so every harvest nourishes both the ecovillage and the planet.

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Bring your own gear, or ask us if we can borrow you some. We recommend a camping mattress, a sleeping bag and a pillow. If it is winter, make sure your gear is warm and waterproof.

Carrots provide you with a seamless way to make your booking without the need for traditional currency - with Carrots you can cover any Accommodation Fee at TDF. It mimics our $TDF system, except that it does not contain governance influence.

Carrots can be harvested monthly with a pioneer subscription or earned by completing 👾 quests (coming soon).

Get cosy in a glamping tent for you, and two or three more folks. It's spacious and comfortable, don't worry - they are 5m in diameter. There's a lamp to give you light, and a plug for your electronics. Usually the tent will be inside our warehouse.

Get cosy in a glamping tent for you, yourself and you again. They are 5m in diameter! If you're sharing it with your partner, you'll get a double mattress with warm blankets and fluffy pillows. In case you want two singles, please let us know.

There's a lamp to give you light, and a plug for your electronics. Usually the tent will be inside our warehouse, or maybe there'll be availability in the land.

 $TDF is a utility token backed with real-life value - it gives you access to yearly accommodation at TDF, TDF DAO governance, and really good friends.  

 By purchasing $TDF you are supporting the purchasing and reforestation of the TDF land and the renovation of the facilities, whilst making it your home for the now and the future. 

Bring your auto-home to TDF. We have spaces in the land that are flat, with shade and with electricity. Perfect for your home on the road.

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Experience co-living with fellow builders and the TDF team. We will have regular community activities, saunas, experiential dinners, music jams, embodiment practices, yoga, massage, and more 🥙💃🏽🔥🎶🎭

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We are looking for skilled builders who want to co-create this village with us ✨

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6 hours per day, 1 month minimum ✅. Free accommodation & food (glamping tents and dorms available, or bring your van)

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Building will be the main focus until at least mid 2026 - so come get your hands dirty!

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We will be offering tokens to builders who take projects from start to completion. Rewards will be negotiated with the team.

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Join our vibrant regenerative community where work and life blend seamlessly. We're looking for passionate individuals who want to contribute to a sustainable future while living in harmony with nature and like-minded people. Our roles offer more than just employment - they provide an opportunity to be part of a growing ecosystem that values collaboration, learning, and environmental stewardship.

Whether you're skilled in gardening, building, hospitality, or have other talents to share, we welcome diverse perspectives and abilities. In return, you'll experience community living, learn regenerative practices, and contribute to meaningful projects that make a difference.

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From bringing your own van to staying in a shared dorm, we have a range of options to fit your needs. We recommend staying for 1 month to get the full experience of our community, but you can also come just for an event.

Come and stay in our regenerative village under development. Get a chance to learn about permaculture, bio-construction, web3 - or just come and relax surrounded by beautiful nature. We don't have 5 star facilities just yet, but you get to experience the magic of this place during its early years, and we guarantee you'll meet some inspiring humans you'll become friends with.

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Fun Fact - This summer (2023) we have harvested at least 150 kg of food from our garden.

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After staying with us for at least 14 days, and your trial has been deemed successful - you will be invited to have an informal interview with one of the stewards to map your intentions, opportunities and unique role within TDF. 

This will then be send to the DAO where you will have the opportunity to be vouched for by current members. Upon being vouched for by at least 3 current members, your application will be successful!

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$TDF is a housing access token that provides utility in the form of housing, food, water, and community while regenerating the planet. It will also confer governance rights in the TDF DAO, alonside other governance primitives such as Proof of Presence and Proof of Sweat. It's your key to this regenerative village.

$TDF Tokens @ €232 per token

Tokens unlock your preferred room; the utility fee sustains services and operations.

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