Thomas Lüdert is a trained landscape gardener and arborist and managed successful businesses for natural landscaping and arboriculture in Germany between 1982 and 2000. He then moved to Portugal and became an employee of the Tamera community, where he coordinated the community’s first large-scale reforestation project and the installation of much of the infrastructure. From 2007 to 2012, he was the lead engineer in the construction of Tamera’s internationally known water retention landscape. Thomas is still an employee of Tamera and also runs the independent company “Agualands”, which has designed and built water landscapes on quite a few properties in the south of Portugal and today offers training, consulting and planning for rainwater management.