Permaculture

WATER IS LIFE! This truth has been ringing in our ears in recent years as concerns about water surface around the globe. People are stepping up to defend their right to water. We can help. Water is top priority in Permaculture Design and in supporting life! Earth Rehydration. Water Retention Landscaping. Water Harvesting. These are all words for the practice of shaping the land so the rainfall can penetrate and nourish the land rather than run-off causing erosion and nutrient-loss as well as dehydration. These practices are appropriate on any land that has been disturbed or denuded. Intact eco-systems, [[read more]]

Water Works

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Here are some photos of Vida Verde’s gardens, and our process in developing long-term soil fertility. From breaking ground for the gardens with our team, to a look at the first vegetables that were grown here, it’s a view into how permaculture is applied at this location.

Cultivating Food, Medicine, Soil fertility:

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The Yupaichani Network is a consortium of friends & associates in Vilcabamba, Ecuador that is working together on five local initiatives that address global problems. “Yupaichani” is Quechua for Thank You Pachama! Pachamama includes the Earth, the sky, the cosmos and all time. Vilcabamba is known as a legendary healing retreat of for royalty during the time of the Incan empire. We invite you to help us build our model for local ecological & economic regenerative action. Our Mission: By caring for the Earth under our feet, we learn on a personal-neighborhood-bioregional level to rebuild kinship with nature, across [[read more]]

YUPAICHANI Network

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These therapeutic offerings help us shift our way of being in the world to help develop a sensitive and balanced relationship with ourselves and the living world around us. See Comments from clients below. Zia's Vilcabamba office is at Finca Vida Verde, 5 minutes car ride from el Centro in San Jose de Vilcabamba.See Contact for directions. In Cuenca, you can arrange for a session at the House of Natural Wellbeing, Cornelio Merchan 7-94 & Padr Sodiro. 093 982 0306 HEALING RETREATS Allow yourself to slow down to the pace that allows you to hear the herbs and veggies [[read more]]

Healing Arts

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We Offer these all organic products every Saturday at the Randi Nama Organic Market at the Terminal Plaza in Vilcabamba, Loja province, Ecuador: + Fresh Produce: lettuces, arugula, parsley, bok choys, komatsu, chirimen, many culinary and medicinal herbs; ocassionally carrots, beets + Skin Care Salves: uniquely hand crafted, and include the oil infusion of 8 medicinal herbs from our gardens—lavender, rosemary, oregano, dandelion, borage, comfrey, calendula, mint.They are: Lip Balm, Hand Salve, Baby Balm + Face Cream + Aphrodisiac Love Balm + Mint Tooth Paste + Tulsi for Infusions + Turmeric Medicine Balls + Moringa Gomasio + Ginger Maracuya [[read more]]

Products

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Clic for more photos. A truer recognition of “development” will be when we return to building houses that can eventually melt back into the Earth, and which do not hurt the Earth with their hidden carbon footprint, that is, materials that require large amounts of hydrocarbons/ petroleum to fabricate. Everything we can do to quit the pan-epidimic of addiction to petroleum is a good thing for the Earth! Follow our process with this complete photo essay of these three bioconstruction houses, below: Rasta Muffin Hut: Main House: Mixin’ adobe mud to reggae beats, and voila! a superlative eco-home emerges [[read more]]

BioConstruction

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FOR UPDATED PHOTOS (implementation of swales early 2018, tree planting late 2018), SCROLL DOWN Our vision of reforestation with agro-forestry design for the valley of Vilcabamba has taken a step forward with the contract to design and supervise implementation of a 17 hectare property, El Mirador, in barrio San Jose de Vilcabamba. In the video we made for our crowd-funding project, Water and a Forest for Every Village, we mention the need for more and larger models. This property is the beginning of our mid-size model. The project proposal can be seen here MiradorDesignWEB We are pushing the envelope [[read more]]

El Mirador, water retention design, 17 hct, Vilcabamba

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Robert David Mceldowney 1970 BA degree in Religion and Philosophy, Maryville College, Maryville Tenn. 1971 US Peace Corps training in sub-tropical agriculture and animal husbandry in India 1972 Crew labor worker on a large commercial landscaping company, Duncan Landscape, Youngstown, Ohio 1973 Counselor at a large innovative state-run school for the specially challenged in Enumclaw, Wa. my ward was with the most mentally and emotionally challenged. 1974 Began studying sub-tropical organic agriculture full time on the Big Island,Hawaii 1975-1985 Created and managed several small farms and gardens in Hawaii 1986 Completed the foundation year training for Waldorf teachers (Steiner Education) [[read more]]

Resume, Roshni

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There are so many compelling reasons, that fuel the massive gardening movement worldwide: Food for the table, food security, access to organic food, supporting biodiversity, saving & exchanging seed, good exercise, connection with nature. Vandana Shiva refers to seed saving as “the most important revolutionary act of our time”. For us, these are all good reasons. It is a practice for us to make our choices with awareness of our connection to the web of life. When we live with the awareness that we are related to everything that is “Nature”, we can FEEL that when we are wasteful, [[read more]]

Why Garden?

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