The Moo (monastic retreats at Alversjö)

Update (29/04/2024)
We just had the Monastic Retreat in Alversjö last week with 6 participants. We have finally finished the Gazebo behind the Villa, started a permanent garden and cleaned up a landfill in the nature reserve. We also enjoyed good food and some of us a hot bath during full moon in the cold evening.

But what is most important for me to share is that this whole project became something else then originally planned. Currently there is not much development in the renovation of the sheep barn. I havn't worked on it since almost a year. Anyhow the dream of having warm rooms, a proper kitchen and bathrooms is still alive and lives on in the infrastructure project where some passionate people are working on. Currently an architect and a carpenter are planning to insulate a part of the wooden barn and making bathrooms and kitchen there.

An idea arose to include the idea of the Monastery in the garden project and build some tiny houses there. This is still in early development and some more discussions and permits need to be gathered for that. We will make a new project here on OpenCollective for this as well.

If you want to find out more about the idea of the monastery check out this document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/18n-C2HThdKkUPtpp1gLErk-D9fkZdcKQOIidY9EuEPk/edit#