14 groups planning in the open

What could your group
actually do together?

Natural Life Style helps groups plan shared land, retreats, farms, and community projects — by combining what each person can genuinely commit, not just what they own on paper.

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17
Communities
13 public · 4 private
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24
Members
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8
Countries on the map
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4
Launched

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Communities on the map

13 communities are planning in the open. Tap a pin to see what each one is building.

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Our example project

Terra Nova (demo) — see how a community works from the inside

A fictional community with members around the world, votes, land and agreement drafts. Take a look before you sign up.

Look behind the scenes

Pyrenees Land Purchase Group

Example
Early stageLand Purchase Spain (Aragón)

Six people pooling savings to buy a mountain finca with water rights before building anything.

Verde Valley Circle

Example
LaunchedEco Community Mexico (Oaxaca)

Seven people from five countries: land purchased and four off-grid cabins built.

Cascina Nuova

Example
LaunchedFarm Italy (Umbria)

A restored historic farmhouse with a community-supported agriculture scheme and guest rooms.

Alpine Makers Collective

Example
LaunchedCooperative France (Haute-Savoie)

A shared workshop and studio space, paid for by pooled tools and memberships.

Iberian Land Collective

Example
LaunchedRetreat Centre Portugal (Alentejo coast)

Bought 3.2 hectares with a farmhouse and now runs retreats that bring in about €4,200 a month.

Connemara Seaweed & Crafts

Example
ActiveBusiness Collective Ireland (Connemara)

Harvesting and drying seaweed, weaving and a small shop — a shared business that funds members’ living costs.

Wendland Housing Co-op

Example
PlanningShared House Germany (Wendland)

A converted farm estate with eight flats, shared workshop and a car pool, organised as a housing co-operative.

Crete Olive & Herb Collective

Example
Early stageFarm Greece (Crete)

Dry-land olives, wild herbs and bees on terraces above the Amari valley, sold direct to members.

Le Marche Artists' Retreat

Example
Nearly readyRetreat Centre Italy (Marche)

Painters and musicians turning a hilltop farmhouse into studios with residencies in spring and autumn.

Cévennes Shared Farmstead

Example
ActiveFarm France (Cévennes)

A stone mas with 12 ha of pasture and chestnuts; goats, cheese and a seasonal guest gîte.

Ribeira Sacra Vineyard Co-op

Example
PlanningCooperative Spain (Galicia)

Members pool labour to bring terraced vineyards back into production and share the cellar and harvest.

Sierra de Aracena Co-housing

Example
Nearly readyEco Community Spain (Huelva)

Mountain village co-housing: four renovated houses sharing a kitchen garden, workshop and chestnut woodland.

Alentejo Olive Commons

Example
Nearly readyFarm Portugal (Alentejo)

Five households restoring an abandoned olive grove and farmhouse near Évora, selling oil and running small workshops.

Communities marked “Example” are demonstration data showing how the platform works — they are not real groups.

Have land? Offer it — or donate it

Lease land to a community on fair terms, or donate it for 20+ years so a group can form around it and look after it.

The idea

Everything it takes to fund and start a collective, in one place

Natural Life Style exists to take a group from “we should do this one day” to a real, funded, organised collective — without a spreadsheet, a group chat, and a dozen half-finished documents holding it together.

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Fund it together

Pool cash, monthly contributions, and committed capital into one clear picture of what the group can actually afford — updated as people join and commit.

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Pool local resources

Land, tools, vehicles, skills, and labour — counted alongside money, so the group sees everything it really has to work with, not just its bank balance.

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Draft the documents

Generate draft agreements and contribution records straight from what the group has actually committed, ready to take to a lawyer or notary.

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Run assemblies & meetings

Raise proposals, hold votes, and reach consensus or majority decisions as a group — with a timestamped record of how and why the group decided.

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See the monthly numbers

Track net savings and surplus, per person and for the whole group, once shared costs, income, and contributions are counted in.

The Natural Life Style difference

Net worth is not
the same as commitment.

Someone may own €200,000 in property and contribute nothing. Someone else may have €8,000 in savings, a camper van, carpentry skills, and 30 hours a week. Natural Life Style measures both.

We track what people are actually prepared to do — cash now, monthly contributions, skills, labour, assets, and conditional pledges. Then we show your group what becomes genuinely possible.

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Committed capital
Only what each person genuinely pledges — not their full savings
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Skills & labour
Carpentry, cooking, farming, web, yoga, construction — all counted
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Assets shared
Vans, tools, land, equipment — given a real value
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Monthly contributions
What each person can sustain over 12–24 months
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Conditional pledges
"I will commit €20k if at least 4 others join"

Example stories

Groups that made it happen

Illustrative examples of what groups can build with Natural Life Style — each one is an example community you can find on the map above, not a real group.

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Iberian Land Collective
Alentejo, Portugal
Example story

We went from three people texting in a group chat to signing a land deed in under 18 months. Natural Life Style helped us see, in real numbers, that we could actually do this.

AL
Alice M.
Admin & Web Lead
What they achieved
€87k
committed & raised together
👥4 founding members
🏆Bought 3.2 hectares with farmhouse
📅Launched March 2024
💚€4,200/mo from retreats
Retreat CentreFarmingPortugal
AM
Alpine Makers Collective
Haute-Savoie, France
€54k
raised by 6 members

“We pooled our tools and skills and now have a workshop none of us could have built alone. The scenario builder showed us exactly what was mi…”

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Pieter V.
Founding member
Shared workshop & studio space running
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Verde Valley Circle
Oaxaca, Mexico
€112k
raised by 7 members

“Seven people from five countries. The candidate simulator told us which members strengthened the group financially and which brought skills …”

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Tomás R.
Community coordinator
Land purchased, 4 cabins built
CN
Cascina Nuova
Umbria, Italy
€73k
raised by 5 members

“We used the proposal generator to create a draft agreement. It wasn't a legal document — we took it to a notary in Perugia — but it gave us …”

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Francesca B.
Member & cook
Historic farmhouse restored, CSA launched

Simple process

From idea to land deed in four steps

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01

Create your collective

Name your group, describe your vision, choose a project type and preferred region.

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Invite your people

Share a private link. Each person fills in their own profile privately — what they own, earn, and can commit.

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See what's real

The dashboard shows committed capital, skills, labour, and which scenarios your group can actually afford.

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Plan and agree

Run projections, compare scenarios, generate draft agreements to take to a lawyer.

Every kind of project

What groups use Natural Life Style for

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Shared Rural House

84 groups

Pool resources to rent or buy a farmhouse together — far more space than anyone could afford alone

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Land Purchase

47 completed

Buy land as a group with clear legal structure — 3–10 hectares that none of you could manage solo

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Farm & Market Garden

61 groups

Start a CSA, permaculture project, or small farm with shared labour and committed capital

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Retreat Centre

38 groups

Turn a shared property into a yoga, wellness, or spiritual retreat that earns income for the group

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Relocation Group

52 groups

Move to Spain, Portugal, Mexico or beyond as a group — sharing costs and reducing the risk of going alone

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Cooperative Business

30 groups

Launch an Airbnb, workshop, coworking space, or community enterprise with pooled investment

Beyond the numbers

Independence, before you need it

This isn't community for its own sake. It's food, water, land, and energy under your own control, built calmly and early rather than scrambled for later. Almost nobody has the land, skills, and capital to do that alone — Natural Life Style helps you find who you'd build it with.

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The essentials, under your control

Food, water, land, and energy are currently controlled by a supply chain, a landlord, a utility. A group can hold all four itself.

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Surveillance is a numbers game

Mass monitoring only pays for itself where people are packed densely enough to make it worth the spend. Small communities sit below that threshold.

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One job is one point of failure

Automation keeps reshaping which jobs exist. Pooled skills, land, and capital give a group several ways to keep going, not just one salary.

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Health and time, not just money

Lower living costs, less commuting, and shared labour buy back the two things city life quietly taxes — your health and your time.

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Money goes further, shared

Rent, land, healthcare, and everyday costs split across a group almost always beat what any one person pays alone — often by a wide margin outside major cities.

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More options than one country

A group evaluating land and cost of living across several countries together can weigh the trade-offs properly, instead of one person guessing alone.

Your finances stay private

Natural Life Style never exposes individual financial details. Every member controls exactly what they share. The collective dashboard shows only aggregated totals — your net worth, debts, and personal details stay yours.

Each person fills in their own profile privately
Only aggregated totals appear on the shared dashboard
No photos or identity documents required
Delete your data completely at any time
Export everything as CSV or PDF
Collective Dashboard (what others see)
Total committed capital€87,000
Monthly contributions€2,100/mo
Members4 members
Alice's personal savings••••••
Bob's debt details••••••

Individual details are always hidden from other members by default

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AM
VV
CN
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312 groups are planning right now.

Some of them started with the same idea you have. The question Natural Life Style answers is simple: what can your specific group actually do together?

Create your collective

Free to start. No credit card. No photos. Just plans.