What are Flores?
Flores do Barlavento was set up in the summer of 2020 by a group of locals from the South West of Portugal who were looking for a practical way to exchange services and goods with other locals in a simple and sustainable way.
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How does it work?
Joining our community is easy. It only takes a few minutes to sign up and you can immediately start interacting by offering your skills and goods. Once registered, you decide what is the value of your offerings and upload a description and/or image of your offering.
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Why would I join?
One of the other great things of the Flores is how it changes our relationship to the things and services we use and how it puts us in touch with near or further neighbours. Even if it is only a brief interaction of picking up a bag of oranges someone picked from their tree, you still get a sense of who they are and where those oranges came from.
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Where did this start?
In the summer of 2020 a devastating fire surged over kilometres of land in the south west of Portugal. In a matter of hours the landscape turned into a graveyard of dead trees and smoldering black earth. Many of our community members lost everything they had.
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