Why Can Brull Exists

Can Brull: A Living, Creating, and Gathering Space

Why Can Brull Exists

Can Brull is a living experiment in how we build lives, relationships, and projects that are regenerative, reciprocal, and radically human. It is not a business, a commune, or a co-op—though it borrows elements from all three. It is a platform-as-place: a shared environment where individuals can live, create, and grow in ways that enrich themselves and the community that supports them.

Can Brull is a land-based community platform rooted in art, regenerative agriculture, and collective tinkering.

We believe in ownership of one’s own work, and in shared responsibility for the space that makes such work possible. Our motivation is anchored on a simple principle: if we each contribute just enough to sustain and grow the platform, it will continue to welcome others.

Some infrastructure is private or founder-held, especially in this early phase. But the infrastructure that supports others’ creativity—spaces, tools, systems—is managed with transparency and open books. We don’t extract margins, our model isn’t built on profit or charity. Instead, value circulates—to maintain, expand, and open the platform to the next wave of builders and dreamers.

Can Brull isn’t run on rules and roles, but on trust and shared intention. It is about listening, meeting around the fire, and deciding just enough. We believe in consent, care, and collective rhythm—not control. Can Brull is a continuous unfolding, a place we grow and build together, a space where we come to create, renew, and collaborate. This place is never finished, and never meant to be. It is something we build together—not once, but always.

Can Brull is the name of both our physical property in 01 - PROPERTY/Property Overview|Montseny, and the shared project we’re building on it. At the heart of it is our personal home—Mariano and Maga’s base—but the wider land and platform are designed to host much more. There are private spaces, shared spaces, and project-based spaces. Some people visit. Some stay. Some may build here too.

Part Home: Ours and Yours

At its core, Can Brull is the place Mariano and Maga have chosen to live their everyday life—a sanctuary where they will build a life grounded in nature, self-sufficiency, and meaningful relationships. It is the latest chapter in a life and a partnership shaped by movement, making, and deep listening across countries, crafts, and communities. Can Brull is the natural next step in that journey: a rooted place built not to contain us, but to ground the next iteration.

Our home anchors the project, while the broader property holds space for many kinds of lives and initiatives. The project coexists with our living space - a house designed to accommodate our family and close friends, which sits within the larger property—a natural environment of warmth, hospitality, and shared experience.

As such, Can Brull as a whole is the first expression of a longer stewardship—beginning with us, but designed to be held and shaped by others in time. We believe in holding space for chosen family, for unconventional lives, and for relationships that don’t always fit the usual maps. We value presence over performance, truth over politeness, and the quiet kind of freedom that comes from being fully seen. The doors here are open to those who come with care and curiosity. To those who wish to live with the land, not just on it. To those looking for somewhere to return to, or simply somewhere to begin again.

Part Community & Commune

Beyond just a home and a workshop, Can Brull is a gathering place for friends and like-minded people—an intentional 04 - COMMUNITY/Community Guidelines|community where relationships are nurtured and deep connections are formed. It’s a space of trust, acceptance, and shared purpose, where people can come together for short or long stays, contributing to a lifestyle that values cooperation, autonomy, and joy.

Some may live here part-time or long-term. Others may come and go with the rhythm of seasons or projects. We welcome diverse forms of presence—rooted, temporary, or in between. At Can Brull, 04 - COMMUNITY/Tinkerers & Builders/|tinkerers might be short-term guests, long-term residents, or something in between. What matters is not duration, but intention and contribution.

Part Regenerative Agriculture & Self-Sufficiency

A key pillar of Can Brull is our commitment to self-sustainability and sufficiency, anchored in a 02 - SUBPROJECTS/Regenerative Agriculture/Overview|regenerative agriculture farm project. By integrating sustainable farming practices, permaculture principles, and holistic land stewardship, we aim to cultivate food, energy, and resources in a way that supports both the environment and the community.

Regeneration at Can Brull is not just about yield—it’s about healing systems. We prioritize soil health, water retention, biodiversity, and carbon sequestration through reforestation and perennial planting. We see the land as a partner, not a resource. Over time, we envision integrating animals, forest systems, and traditional wisdom into our design.

The farm acts as a living laboratory—adapting through the seasons and feedback from both land and people. Our approach embraces permaculture zoning: with intensive activity near the heart of the home and wild, low-intervention areas further out. Each layer supports the others, and nothing exists in isolation.

We aim to reconnect people with the slow, grounded rhythms of place—through planting, harvesting, observing, and co-evolving.

Part Platform for Tinkerers & Builders

Can Brull is an open platform for friends and collaborators to experiment, play, and develop their own projects. Whether it’s a creative endeavor, a new venture, or a bold experiment in sustainability, innovation, or craftsmanship, we welcome those who bring ideas that add richness and texture to the collective life of this place.

Rather than maximizing profit or growth for its own sake, our model is built on reciprocity, sufficiency, and shared expansion. Each project contributes enough to sustain the platform and support its continued growth—creating more space, resources, and opportunities for future tinkerers and builders.

Projects remain owned by their creators, while the core shared infrastructure—tools, maker spaces, digital systems—is currently founder-owned. As the platform evolves, we envision new infrastructure being co-funded by the community and held in trust for shared use and governance.

We maintain open books for platform infrastructure—meaning budgets, costs, and needs for shared project-enabling resources are transparent and accessible.

Founder-Led Projects as Models

As founders, we’re also tinkerers ourselves. Maga’s 02 - SUBPROJECTS/Pottery Studio/Overview|pottery business and Mariano’s 02 - SUBPROJECTS/Mushroom Academy/Overview|Mushroom Academy are the initial expressions of this tinkering spirit—examples of projects that leverage Can Brull’s shared resources and actively contribute back to the platform’s sustainability and growth.

These founder-led projects maintain their own distinct identities, operations, and leadership, while their infrastructure—pottery kilns, the mushroom laboratory, and other spaces—remain available to the broader community under clear, transparent arrangements. Collaborators can also initiate their own projects within these spaces, run workshops, or suggest expansions aligned with our shared ethos.

How We Support Tinkerers

At Can Brull, tinkering isn’t just welcome—it’s actively nurtured. We encourage individuals to explore their passions and launch projects that bring meaning, joy, and value to the community. Here’s how we help tinkerers thrive:

Autonomy & Ownership: You fully own your projects—planning, production, outcomes, and profits. This is entrepreneurship in its most human form: free, responsible, and self-directed.

Shared Resources, Transparent Costs: Clear access to shared infrastructure—tools, workspaces, pottery studio, mushroom cultivation spaces, and resources. Costs are straightforward: cover what you use, plus a contribution to maintain and expand our collective capacity and continue growing the platform.

Mutual Benefit & Reciprocity: Your success enriches Can Brull, strengthening our shared ecosystem. We actively support your projects through network introductions, visibility, mentorship, and community support.

Flexible Pathways to Growth: Volunteers may become tinkerers, who may become residents, collaborators, or eventually stewards. Your path is open, evolutionary, and supported at each stage.

Culture of Trust and Learning: Experimentation, risk-taking, and creative failure are celebrated as essential forms of learning. Radical honesty and trust guide all our interactions and relationships.

In short: You dream it. You own it. You grow it. Can Brull supports you—so you can support Can Brull.

Part Pottery & Wood-Fired Workshop

As founders, we are also tinkerers and builders. This place is also home to Maga’s 02 - SUBPROJECTS/Pottery Studio/Overview|pottery business, where high-end ceramics are crafted with care, blending traditional Japanese techniques with modern artistry. The property features a dedicated pottery workshop and wood-firing kilns, offering a space for deep creative practice and immersive workshops. Artists, craftspeople, and enthusiasts are welcome to participate, learn, stay and contribute to the ever-growing culture of handmade expression.

Firing at Can Brull is seasonal and intentional—attuned to cycles of material gathering, forest stewardship, and community rhythm. We use wood sourced locally through careful pruning and deadwood collection, with the aim of minimizing impact and deepening our relationship with fire, time, and material.

Clay, wood, ash, and glazes are more than materials here—they’re expressions of the soil beneath us. Pottery becomes a dialogue with the land itself, transformed through communal effort and slow, intentional energy.

In addition to workshops and production, Can Brull hosts an artist-in-residence program, inviting ceramicists and other multidisciplinary artists to live, create, and collaborate in an inspiring natural setting. Residents can explore new ideas, work alongside experienced craftspeople, and contribute to the creative energy that defines this space. Whether refining their skills, experimenting with wood-fired techniques, or teaching others, resident artists become part of a vibrant, evolving community of makers.

Part Mushroom Academy

Can Brull is also home to The 02 - SUBPROJECTS/Mushroom Academy/Overview|Mushroom Academy, Mariano’s tinkering project along with a few trusted like-minded folks. A space dedicated to both the production of culinary and medicinal mushrooms and the exploration of new, sustainable methods for cultivating fungi.

This initiative is part farm, part research lab, and part magnet for mycology enthusiasts—a place where traditional growing techniques meet experimental approaches. Whether it’s fostering fungi in natural forest settings, developing low-tech indoor cultivation methods, or discovering innovative ways to integrate mushrooms into regenerative agriculture, The Mushroom Academy is an open platform for learning, experimentation, and discovery.

Mushrooms here are not just crops—they’re collaborators. We explore their role in soil building, forest resilience, and decomposition. By working with the forest’s own cycles and fallen wood, we aim to reintegrate fungal networks into land stewardship—and reconnect people to the mycelial world that underpins life itself.

We welcome curious minds, scientists, chefs, and tinkerers to collaborate, push boundaries, and help shape the future of sustainable mycology.

A Shared Future

Can Brull is about what we can build together, not what we create individually. It’s a space where personal projects, communal living, and artistic pursuits intersect—an ever-evolving, living project that thrives on collaboration, curiosity, and a commitment to making life richer for everyone involved.

Things We’re Still Working On

We don’t have it all figured out. Here are some of the questions we’re sitting with:

We don’t promise perfection—we promise to keep learning, adapting, and holding space for collective growth.

See also: Vision & Objectives, 04 - COMMUNITY/Community Guidelines