Sustainability

        
What we are doing RIGHT NOW to be sustainable:

• We share an organic farm.
• We are growing food.
• We make natural soaps.
• We make natural medicines from locally harvested medicinal plants.
• We make raw organic vinegar, pickles, and hot sauce.
• We have a small natural foods business that provides income to support the project.
• We eat a whole foods diet using mostly locally produced products.
• We plant trees and grow trees for building materials an fire wood.
• We use natural materials from our farm for building and landscaping (such as, fallen trees, clay, grasses, rocks, and more).
  We are rebuilding the soil with organic matter, including manure.
• We use a very minimal amount of packaged foods.
• We actively recycle.
• We collect our water from a spring on our farm.
• We use minimal amounts of electricity.
• We trade and barter whenever possible.
• We are passing the message of sustainability along through children and youth in schools and other meetings.

      Although Costa Rica does have strict laws forbidding the destruction of rainforest, they are difficult to enforce, and rainforests are still being demolished.  By purchasing lands, we are able to help stop such destruction.  By purchasing deforested pasturelands, we are able to plant thousands of trees, including fruit trees, which will provide food and shelter for wildlife as well as for the human community.