The Magora Project

Magora is a living-systems project restoring ecosystems, strengthening communities, and sharing regenerative solutions through education, storytelling, and collaborative experimentation

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Our Story

The Magora Project is a living-systems community exploring how humans, land, and culture can co-evolve. Located in the Chihuahuan Desert, Magora serves as a learning landscape where ecological restoration, natural building, and collaborative leadership unfold together.

We engage in hands-on work, building earthen structures, restoring soil and water systems, and practicing new ways of working together, guided by the intelligence of the land and the relationships we cultivate. Learning here is experiential, relational, and ongoing.

Magora is not about implementing a fixed model. It is about practicing, observing, adapting, and sharing what emerges. Through education, storytelling, and media, we extend these learnings beyond this place, supporting others in creating life-centered systems in their own communities.

This is not a finished vision. It is a living process, and you are invited to be part of it.

  • Life at Magora is a new experience for me, focusing on environmental as well as social regeneration. Living in daily interaction with a landscape that was previously abused, knowing how I use resources can make a direct impact on its healing, is an honor. Every drop of grey water that I direct toward a plant fills me with hope for this region that I love.

    NINA MC DANIEL

  • At Magora I feel welcome as a participant. The Hyperadobe structure method is new to me and given me confidence in using the method in my own building (should I chose). I'm also excited to see the progression of the shared leadership as it shapes the space and how certain occurrences affect the goal of maintaining brave space.

    JIMMY VERNEUIL

  • My experience at Magora is the first time I’ve been a part of an ongoing communal project that is also a space for exploring interpersonal relationships and feeling accepted and supported in ways that goes beyond the project. I’m just grateful to have the space to come together with really good people that make me feel loved.

    NATALIE NEWMAN

  • Socially, living in intentional community has taught me the excitement of collaboration with chosen family. Our meals are such a beautiful metaphor for the uniqueness we all bring to the community. My favorite part of living at Magora is seeing the immediate impact my contributions make.

    NINA MCDANIEL

  • "Having explored and immersed into many different ecosystems, I found the Chihuahuan Desert something entirely new, a child-like awe that captured my curiosity. Magora was something I had heard about through conversations so to go and experience it was a beautiful gift. To live in a way where you are so dependent on building mutual relationships is a deeply intentional way of living. There's a practice of mindfulness in using the resources around you with reciprocity. I love that none of us are experts but curious students willing to share and build together."

    Olive Morin