Gardens for soulful rebels
Workshops Natural Gardening
Autumn - Winter - Spring
2025 - 2026
Welcome to the Natural Gardening Workshop
This is not an ordinairy garden workshop, but a journey to see the (natural) world around you from a different perspective. Hard work will become playing and your garden will become a basket full of opportunity, rather than a headache.​
Workshops Natural Gardening - an overview
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We’ll begin with a welcoming dive into the world of Natural Gardening. Expect a gentle, joyful mix of fundamental principles that apply to all garden types — from how soil dreams to how plants dance. It’s the ground beneath our feet and the thread that ties every garden story together.
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With Wende — a queer gardener and landscape designer — as your guide, this workshop is both rooted and fluid. You’ll explore the art of Natural Gardening: grounded in ecosystems, enriched with creativity, and woven through with connection — to land, to self, and to each other.
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​The workshop takes place in the living classroom of Cento e Oito, a creative, off-gridd community in the Southwest of Portugal, where theory meets earth under your fingernails. You'll gain hands-on garden experience, feel the rhythms of the land, and leave with the confidence to start (or deepen) your own garden. During your stay you will be part of our off-grid community and eat with us.
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​By the end of these five days, you’ll know how to set up your own vegetable garden, food forest, and ornamental garden — and you’ll receive clear documentation to support your next steps.
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“I love how Wende weaves together queer ecology, deep ecology and native wisdom.
She provides an indepth perspective on gardening rooted in
sustainable relationship between humans and nature.
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Through her life experience she gracefully adresses the intersection between
gardening, politics and spirituality.
She shows how the garden teaches us about community building and celebrating diverstity.
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She is a great storyteller and takes you along from a theoretical framework into
the practical details to apply in your garden.”
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Jorien - participant
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​For more info and subscriptions:
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Dates:
23 - 27 September 2025
20 - 25 October 2025
10 - 16 November 2025 (at Terra Rosa, Barcelona, Spain)
31 January - 1 February 2026
28 February - 1 March 2026
23 - 24 May 2026
Location: Community Cento e Oito, Alentejo, Portugal
(Location details will be shared upon registration)
Price: euro 120,00
Price of the workshop is including coffee, tea and lunch​
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