FORNOS DE ALGODRES · CENTRAL PORTUGAL. EST. 2017
The world's only golf course where every hole is a living system.
NINE HOLES · NINE ENQUIRIES · ALL OF THEM CONNECTED · OPENING 2027
We've been restoring degraded land overlooking the Serra da Estrela mountains since 2017. Not by forcing it — but by understanding what's actually driving things underneath the surface.
The Course of Curiosity is the next part of the story, walk through what we've learned through play. Become a scientist and add to the record.
To join our experiment, read more.
LUSH SPRING PRIZE RUNNER UP
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SURREY FUNDING
LEARNING FROM THE
BEES CONFERENCES
BRANGANCA UNIVERSITY
HONEY BEE RESEARCH
BOOM FESTIVAL
CONSTELLATION
FOUR EXPRESSIONS. ONE EXPERIMENT.
Everything here is
connected.
THE COURSE OF CURIOSITY
Golf that asks questions.
Nine holes. Nine living systems. Every hole asks a question nobody fully knows the answer to. Designed for schools, families and scouts. Humble enough to admit what we don't know yet — which turns out to be most of it.
OPENING 2027 - LEARN MORE
HEALTH CONSTELLATIONS
Your body isn't broken.
It's responding to patterns that haven't been seen yet. Deborah works with women navigating menopause, chronic illness and autoimmune conditions. Online worldwide or in a wood cabin on a regenerating hillside. The land and the body are the same experiment.
WORK WITH DEBORAH
STAY ON THE LAND
Stay in the middle of it.
The mountains, the bees, the slowly returning forest, a dolmen that's been here for five thousand years, and a sky with no light pollution. Two cottages, camping, a shared outdoor kitchen. Combine a stay with constellation work if you want. Or just arrive and see what happens.
PLAN YOUR STAY
THE LAND
Ten hectares of very patient work.
Biodiversity, reforestation, rebuilding soil and water systems, monitoring wild bees and renovating ruins. Started 2017. Still running. Results: unexpected, ongoing, and constantly evolving.
FOLLOW THE EXPERIMENT
THE IDEA BEHIND EVERYTHING
We don't know what
we don't know. That's the point.
Most of what works here — in the land, in the health work, in the beehives — emerged from paying attention rather than having a plan. Curiosity and humbleness aren't soft skills. They're the methodology. We are nature. We just forgot.
2017
The purchase of a pine
monoculture with ruins
10 Ha
We stopped managing the surface and started listening to the land
9
Summers of fire on
the horizon, let's change this
story.
15 Yr
Of constellation work, the land teaching us so much more.
9
Holes, nine living experiments.
The next chapter
of learning.
If something here
interests you,
get in touch.
We answer every email.
Join The Experiment
Fornos De Algodres, Central Portugal
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