and welcome to our food forest and reforestation project in the Ecuadorian Amazon! 🌳

Finca Del Soul is a 3.52-hectare area of land (within Badass Fruiterrarist Land) that we have been restoring since late 2023, featuring 2 homes, several bodegas, natural springs and small streams, flat and sloping land, recovering jungle, a bamboo infestation, a leaf-cutter ant colony, 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 by transforming monoculture plantations and cattle pasture into a biodiverse and self-sustaining food forest paradise – a Garden of Eatin’ 😋 – along with conservation and regeneration of native forest and vegetation.

Total liberation for humans and animals is one of our most important values.

We are here to grow a radical abundance of food, reforest this part of the Amazon, and live freely in peace with nature. We welcome volunteers who would like to experience the Amazon and contribute their energy to improving the environment while learning about and gaining experience in food forestry and natural building; and who:

✅ Are vegan (REQUIRED - we do not accept volunteers who are not vegan)

✅ Practice natural hygiene (no chemical products, pharmaceuticals, et cetera)

You will see up close the devastation caused by people for activities that are extremely harmful to animals and the environment, and participate in an effort to create beauty and abundance by working in harmony with nature to provide a home for humans and other animals as well as some of the most interesting and delicious fruits on this earth.

We’re growing some wonderful tropical fruit and other food that we’re happy to share with you as they’re available, from bananas and plantains to pineapples, coconuts, cacao, rambutan, and several other exotic and rare fruits. We’re happy to share what we know about growing and harvesting fruit and other food and about living simply in tranquillity and freedom.

This is a place to slow down and connect with nature and yourself, learn about growing food as a tool for self-sufficiency, experience the local culture, and explore the surrounding Amazon jungle.

We can also host fruiterrarists who would like to stay here while they look for land in this area to reforest as long-term fruit-planting warriors battling the grass and other 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 ask volunteers not to bring any non-compostable waste/trash (e.g. single-use plastic packaging), manufactured vanity “body care” products (e.g. soap, sunscreen, insect repellent, makeup, or other “cosmetics”), non-native toxins (e.g. castor, acetone, glyphosate, pharmaceuticals, bleach, superphosphate fertilisers, or anything else unsafe to ingest), nor decadent Babylonian filth in general, even if promoted as organic, natural, fair-trade, earth-friendly, et cetera. Please bring your food in reusable bags, and if you are at all unsure as to whether any products are appropriate here please ask before bringing them.

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 by 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.