53M | Spain–France Pyrenees | Seeking an Off-Grid Permaculture Partner (Life & Project)

Hello, it’s me. I’m starting a new life in nature in the Pyrenees, right on the Spain–France border. I’m an electronics engineer and a permaculturist, building something real: a long-term, off-grid, regenerative home and land project. I have 6 hectares (14.8 acres) with a 17th-century historic building that I’ll restore as my home. There’s a spring, meadow, forest, and more green than your eyes can reasonably process in one sitting. The direction is clear: permaculture + regenerative agriculture + off-grid living—home systems, gardens, fruit trees, and a food forest, designed for resilience and the long game.

This isn’t meant to be an isolated bubble. I want the project to connect with the local community, creating real networks in the area: collaboration, learning, mutual support, and a shared sense of place. In parallel, I’m also recovering another property near Madrid: 2.5 hectares (6.2 acres) inside a protected natural park, near a lagoon. It’s my “laboratory” for testing ideas, improving land that was neglected, and building systems that can be replicated and scaled.

About me: 175 cm (5’9”), average build, dark hair, brown eyes. I’m hands-on and practical: electricity, solar energy, electronics, plumbing, construction. I build wood furniture, play guitar (and a couple more instruments), and I genuinely enjoy solving problems—especially the kind that end with a working system and a calmer life. I’m looking for an optimistic, resilient person with a good sense of humor—someone who can put heart into details, and who wants this lifestyle: sun, rain, mud, green, stars, and the satisfaction of building a life with intention.

I speak English and Spanish—and honestly, with love, people understand each other in any language.

So: Are you designing your life, or letting chance choose for you?

If this resonates, send me a message and tell me what pulls you most: restoration, gardens, animals, community building, or simply creating a grounded life together.

Hi Juan, I'm very new to permaculture and very interested in sustainable living as well. Lots to learn and very excited about this new journey in my life.
I'm 54 years young in mind, body and spirit. I live a very healthy lifestyle, exercise daily, yoga, meditation, weight training. I love spending time in nature and feel very connected to the earth. I really resonate with everything you've written.

I'm a non-smoker, non-drinker, non-meat eater. I love everthing creative, I make jewelry, sew, love to sing, dance, cook and love learning new things. I've just recently been exploring wood working classes so I can build my own furniture and just develop a new skill in general. Also currently researching ideas for repurposing old tires so they don't end up in the landfill. I've already used some as planters but I want to come up with something more creative. I spent most of my career in fashion and later went back to college to study Psychology. I've always been involved in charitable works, like building homes for the poor with the organization Habitat for Humanity and I do volunteer work with community kitchens, cooking and serving food, supplying clothing, showers and other needs to the poor and homeless communities where I live.

I believe in building a solid foundation of friendship first, monogamy, mutual respect, honor, integrity and then take it from there. I prefer a man who is connected to his spirit, has a growth mindset, is a critical thinker, an excellent communicator that has compassion and empathy for all living beings and wants to grow, inspire and uplift each other and build a like minded community together, with love and in service to humanity.
I am a dual citizen of Barbados and USA. I'm currently in Barbados, just taking some time away from America. I have the freedom to travel and/or relocate if
I meet my heart's connection.
Let me know what you think.
Thanks.

Hi Michelle, thanks for your message. I’ve just sent you a private message.

Hello Juan,
Have you found a lady that shares your vision and passions yet? I'm intrigued.  
With love and light,
Jenni

Hola Juan,

Wow, you have so many amazing skills for living in nature and off the grid. And yes,
I completely agree… finding the right person is even harder than finding the right place.

Greetings from the other side of Europe 😉 Hope you’re doing well over there.

Pippy

Hello Jenni,

I suppose everything is a process, and in Permaculture the key ingredient is time. I’m in it.
Recently someone asked whether being here actually “works.” It made me smile… I think it’s more like sowing seeds you don’t fully know — you have to stay open to whatever grows.

The best part is that I’m meeting many interesting people, the kind that truly enrich you. So beyond moving forward with one specific person or whether it “works” in that sense, the real outcome of this seed is all these connections I genuinely value, even if some of them are far away.

Juan