Natural Building

Natural Building was introduced to us through Permaculture and is today one of our main sectors of activities. The abundance of natural local materials and our constant experimentation led today to the manifestation of beautiful, organic, useful, healthy, durable, nature friendly, essential buildings, constructions and installations.
We explored the passive heating of our buildings, the use of different natural materials and techniques, efficient heating stoves, natural air-conditioning, green roofs, natural insulation, earth and lime plastering techniques, natural paints and much more. As you walk around the paths in the garden you can find a fully operational outside kitchen area with rocket stoves and a wood oven, a reciprocal roof, all tadelakt plastered, the earth-bag built dog house, plastered with earth and covered with a green roof, a solar oven, a hand made dehydrator, natural bee hives, a hot tub, our precious Temazcal (steam house) and our spiritual hall “The Maloca” a 100 sq/meters octagon building, all built with local, natural, reused, recycled and healthy materials.
But this was just the beginning … today as the Community of Good Neighbors is slowly growing the challenge of transforming and renovating existing old buildings for new residents is already a part of our Natural Healthy Building life with 5 new homes under way…

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Yoga

Yoga, The Permaculture of Zone 0

One of the challenges of the life here at Re-Green is not to lose ourselves in the numerous, different tasks and levels of an autonomous life. Everyday necessary tasks like cooking, caring for the living beings of the farm, gardening, harvesting, building, hosting, chopping wood, running courses … and actively being out in the countryside until the sun sets, all this external practices may occupy completely the time one may allocate to look internally and care for his own wellbeing. In the beginning of the project there have been quite some times of physical exhaustion and symptoms of neglection of the body, the mind and the spirit.
Yoga came to counter balance the excesses of overworking and to offer as we say the “internal permaculture”. Caring for the earth begins with caring and nurturing oneself. Building awareness of where the body holds tension, practicing to release and connect to our internal infinite beauty became a fully appreciated everyday medicine. Awakening early in the morning to reach for the sun or restoring ourselves in the quietness of the dusk’s twilight oh yes…brought bliss, harmony, relief, centering and so much gratitude.
The resident Yoga teacher of Re-Green is Amber. She keeps the whole team in shape, uniting us in the everyday circle of Yoga, offering selfless service and walking her talk, tuning us to bring the sun or the moon out on the vast skies of our mountains. Amber speaks the language of the nature through her devoted practice of Yoga.

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The Garden

We like to think of our land as a Garden. The peace and harmony of a fruitful Garden with the colors, the scents, the sounds, the yield, the taste, the waters running through…
The 6000 sq.meter land came into Re-Greens care in 2008, being naked with minimal diversity. The sad, abandoned and thirsty monoculture of pears in the previously pesticided and chemically fertilized land is today a living paradise on Earth. Wild nature is mixed with an orchard of a big variety of fruit trees, nut trees, climbers like vines and kiwis, herbs and berries, vegetables and flowers, nitrogen fixing bushes and trees, insect attracting plants and structures, ground cover and green manure. Each plant is chosen for the roles that it will play in this balanced ecosystem, whether for food, wildlife habitat, soil building, fertility improvement and much more. We like to think of it as our Garden of Eden, or as we were introduced to by permaculture, an Edible Forest Garden. How cool is THAT!

As we expose ourselves to the Permaculture, Homeodynamic and Biodynamic practices, experience comes along and different techniques and experiments are applied. Making Compost and Building Soil is today one of our main goals, trying constantly to nourish the land, give back, observe and interact.

We follow, a Fukuoka rehabilitation plan for the land of the archaeological excavations building soil back, we introduced a few animals and constantly try to nourish the land, give back, observe and interact.

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The Guest House

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0 km Kitchen

the magic kitchen

The Zero-Kilometer Kitchen is Our Ultimate dream under way !

The importance of the food and the isolation in the small village in the mountains, increases the necessity to grow and prepare our meals locally. The 70 m2 renovated little stone house, is fully equipped with Kitchen facilities for tasteful experiments and re-generative meals! The philosophy in food follows the idea of self-sufficiency and sustainability, seasonality and locality. The menu adapts to what Earth supplies every season. From spring to early winter the garden offers delicious vegetables and fruits, all grown with the main ingredient of love, fertilizer and pesticide free, luscious and fresh! The dishes are inspired by Greek tradition and classic “grandmother” recipes, as well as from different regions of the planet, as different chefs take over the kitchen from Latin America, Asia, Italy and others.

Herbal teas, fresh fruit are always available and if you wish you can also cook for us !

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Permaculture

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Our Mission

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EcoCulture Center

Re-Green is an EcoCulture center and an active Permaculture farm. It is not a Hotel.

The intention of Re-Green is to share the miracles that happened to our lives with other people, like reversing heavy health issues and regenerating our physical and spiritual body, learning how to grow our food, building our own shelters, making our medicines and health care products, creating soil, saving energy and more.

We dreamt of this place to be a place of healing and connection with the Earth and the Spirit. Today it is one of Re-Green’s intrinsic qualities to invite Masters and Elders from different fields and from all over the globe, to learn from their expertise, spending energy wisely and using the wheel of existing wisdom. Courses are also run by the Re-Green circle in the fields of Yoga, Permaculture, Natural building and Herbal medicine. An annual Permaculture Design course is held in Re-Green since 2012 with our teachers Dr Rod Everett and Mill Millichap.

Our intention for our guests is to experience and blend with nature, as the ultimate teacher, mother and healer, is Nature after all. While staying with us the idea of life in a community is introduced, sharing the Housing with participants, residents, returning friends and volunteers and of course animals. We share the spaces, the food, the rooms, the kitchen and become a family. You are invited to be part of the family and participate in the house running tasks like taking care of your dishes, be mindful of where to dispose leftovers and garbage, shutting the lights off, taking care of your fireplace, watching where you step in the garden .

The infrastructure of Re-Green is offered for rent during the year, though such arrangements need to be made well in advance.

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The Maloca

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