Can Parera de Canyes is a farmhouse in the Montseny Natural Park, 3 km from Sant Pere de Vilamajor, occupied by a co-operative since 2021. The community currently has 13 adults and 7 kids. The communal living proposal features varied intimate living units not based on the nuclear family, plus shared spaces for everyone. The house, food, care and child-rearing are shared across the whole community.
The property has about 2 hectares of land and 900 m² of farm buildings. Can Parera’s proposal is to hand these resources over to projects rooted in the territory and working for social change. For now they plan to have a production workshop, a training school for social transformation, a vegetable garden and grain production, though most are still under construction. These projects will be governed by an assembly separate from the residents’ assembly.
13adults
7kids
2 Haof land
900 m²of buildings
The project comes from people connected to Can Tonal and has 4 aims:
- Free the historic property from the market.
- Create spaces for living together that strengthen the community and its members.
- Be infrastructure for projects rooted in the territory.
- Be an agent of social transformation.