Growers, students & teachers
Permaculture Design Course
Two weeks living inside a working permaculture project: food forests, educational veggie gardens, dry toilets and solar hot water.
Length
7–14 nights
Group
8–18 guests
Planned moments
11
From
€22 / night
A programme you never had to build
Sessions, meals and timing set around your group before anyone arrives.
Nobody on site but your group
The entire property is yours, one booking at a time.
One invoice, five vendors avoided
Venue, practitioners and chef on a single itemised total.
Pachawa is twenty hectares of regenerative land, not a resort with a herb pot. Course groups learn in the systems they are sleeping in — swales, food forest, compost, greywater, animals and the gardens that feed the kitchen.
Shared-space apartments and the domes keep the per-person price low enough for a student cohort, and long stays get the lowest tier we have.
What you walk away with
A programme you never had to build
Sessions, meals and timing set around your group before anyone arrives.
Nobody on site but your group
The entire property is yours, one booking at a time.
One invoice, five vendors avoided
Venue, practitioners and chef on a single itemised total.
Pachawa is twenty hectares of regenerative land, not a resort with a herb pot. Course groups learn in the systems they are sleeping in — swales, food forest, compost, greywater, animals and the gardens that feed the kitchen.
Shared-space apartments and the domes keep the per-person price low enough for a student cohort, and long stays get the lowest tier we have.
At a glance
Length, group, who leads it, pricing
At a glance
Owner verifiedLength
7–14 nights
Arrive after 4pm, leave by 11am on the last day.
Group size
8–18 guests
Adults only, and never more than 18 overnight guests.
Where you sleep
Shared-Space Apartment
Private to your group, one booking at a time.
Planned moments
11 across the stay
Nothing mandatory, drop or swap any of them.
Who leads it
Sabine & team, on site
Owners, not contractors. No stranger with a script.
Pricing
From €22 / night
One itemised invoice. No platform, resort or service fees.
Changes
Free up to 7 days out
Group size, sessions and catering all scale with you.
Food
Chef optional, kitchen included
Cook together or have every meal handled for you.
Anything here can flex. Tell us your group and Sabine re-shapes the programme before you pay a cent.
A sample shape
Yours to edit. Most groups keep this rhythm.
- 1
Week one
- Site reading and design basics
- Soil, water and swales
- Food forest work mornings
- Evening theory in the shade
- 2
Week two
- Garden systems and propagation
- Animals and compost
- Design studio afternoons
- Final presentations at the long table
- 3
Closing
- Harvest lunch
- Certificates and closing circle
- Departures
Included in the price
On the base total, before any added sessions
- Shared-space apartments and domes, per person per night
- Access to the whole working land
- Permaculture tour and garden sessions with Markus
- Vegetarian full-board option from the gardens
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Your hosts
Sabine and Markus, on site
Owner-hosted, not managed
Sabine & team, on site
Sabine and her team design the programme, book the practitioners and handle the logistics. Every group is hosted personally.
Book a free 30 minute callGuests
Groups who ran this here
4.9
64+ verified stays
Overall rating
Cleanliness
5.0
Accuracy
4.98
Check-in
4.99
Communication
5.0
Location
4.96
Value
4.94
“The yoga platform over the valley is the reason I keep bringing my groups back to Pachawa.”
“Sabine and Markus hold the space, and the land does the rest. Everything grown here ends up on the table.”
“A place where the stress of the modern world dissolves into stillness. We slept with the doors open and woke up with the valley.”
All quotes come from guests who completed a stay on the property.
Good to know
Why guests book us direct
The same promises hold for every retreat we host here.
4.9 out of 5
From 64 verified guest reviews
20 Hectares
Of regenerative permaculture land
Sabine & Markus
Personal hosting and orientation
Yoga Platform
Built out over the Alentejo valley
Book direct
Supporting the land directly
Sleeps 20
Across apartments, trucks and domes
30 min to beaches
Wild Atlantic coast and Rota Vicentina
Solar & Compost
Sustainable, low-impact living
Add-ons
Sessions that pair with this retreat
Added while booking, priced on the same invoice, nothing due now.
Yoga on the Platform
90 minutes·1–20 guests
90 minutes1–20 guests
Farm-to-Table Dinner
2.5 hours·2–20 guests
2.5 hours2–20 guests
Full-Board Vegetarian Catering
Whole stay·4–20 guests
Whole stay4–20 guests
Permaculture & Food-Forest Walk
2 hours·1–20 guests
2 hours1–20 guests
Sunset Walk Over the Valley
2 hours·1–20 guests
2 hours1–20 guests
Where you'll be
On the map
Ten minutes from town, fifteen from the Rota Vicentina coast.
Exact address after bookingPortugal
Drive timesLisbon airport 2 hours · Faro airport 2 hours · The Atlantic coast 30 minutes
Wild Atlantic beaches 30 minutes awayOld Man’s Cave, Ash Cave, Conkles Hollow, Cedar Falls
Before you ask
Questions groups ask first
Is the itinerary fixed?
No. The shape below is what most groups land on. You keep, drop or reorder anything, and nothing is mandatory once you are here.
Who leads the sessions?
Sabine and Markus, or a practitioner they have worked with for years. You never get a stranger with a script.
How does the pricing work?
One itemised invoice: the venue nightly rate plus the sessions you choose. No platform fees, no resort fees, and a free 24 hour hold on your dates.
What if our group size changes?
Tell us up to seven days before arrival. Sessions and catering scale, and the total is re-issued so you see the change before you pay.
Can we bring our own facilitator?
Yes. Facilitators regularly buy out the property and run their own programme, using our spaces, food and sessions as the backbone.
Other retreats
Solo guests
Solo Silent Retreat
Couples
Authentic Love Couples Retreat
Facilitators & yoga groups
Yoga & Breathwork Week
- Every programme is owner-led on the property
- Adults only, maximum 18 overnight guests
- Nothing mandatory once you arrive
$22 / night
4.964+ stays