Finca Del Soul is a 3.52-hectare area of land featuring 2 homes, several bodegas, a plant nursery, a drying station, natural springs and small streams, flat and sloping land, a bamboo infestation, a variety of fruit trees, as well as some pasture land and coffee and cacao plantations that are being reforested with fruit trees, flowers, and a variety of other edible and beneficial plants.
This project doesn’t generate any money; it is purely driven by the objective of restoring a portion of the Amazon Rainforest to a dense forest ecosystem and creating a self-sustainable food forest.
We welcome volunteers who would like to experience the Amazon and contribute their energy to helping to improve the environment, as well as fruiterrarists who would like to stay as longer-term fruit-planting warriors battling the grass and any systems of oppression.
Values
We follow a set of Core Values on the land. In order to keep the land as pure and unpolluted as possible, we abhor and do not bring onto the land any non-compostable waste/trash (e.g. single-use plastic packaging), Victoria’s Secret Hollywood runway permaculture beauty tomato garden products (e.g. soap, sunscreen, insect repellent, makeup, and “cosmetics” in general), non-native toxins (e.g. castor, acetone, glyphosate, pharmaceuticals, organic natural fair-trade essential oil moisturiser, bus tickets to Cotopaxi), nor decadent Babylonian filth in general. (If you are at all unsure as to whether these terms describe your Wi-Fi tower dining hall washing machine’s anti-itch pantyhose detergent, do not bring it!)
Vision
We envision a private, beautiful, peaceful, biodiverse, and self-sustainable food forest ecosystem with shelter, water, and natural resources, living as freely as possible from Babylonnoun: the entire matrix of the financial, legal, industrial, military, media, medical, education, entertainment, transportation, technology, religious, and virtually every other man-made complex and any other oppressors, coexisting respectfully with all peaceful forms of wild life, and subsisting from an abundant variety of fruit and edible or useful plants and natural resources.
Mission
Our mission is to conserve existing forest, plant as many fruit trees as possible, and create a space where humans who share these values and vision can experience a life of simplicity, connected with nature, as free as possible from oppression from or reliance on others, living as our true selves, with respect for and in harmony with all of peaceful nature, ourselves, and others, eating fresh healthy food while consciously and sustainably using the resources from the land for the benefit of the ecosystem and its inhabitants in perpetuity.