Permaculture demonstrative center for dry climate in Hidalgo mexico

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About the Communities

  • Established
  • Spanish
  • Ecological
  • Rural

Founding year

  • 2011

What we do

We started working in 2010 with a team of people that studied in the PRI in Australia, guys from Canada, UK, USA y Russia came to Mexico to team up with a group of local young guys that find´t have a job or went to school at the time. During those days the work focused into learning and practicing permaculture in a degenerated land in one of the most driest places in Hidalgo, Mexico. The objective was to show that permaculture was a very eficient technique to produce food and restore land. With very interesting findings and with good results we kept working to start working with specific government projects around different municipalities from hidalgo, reaching a 3 year long work in more than 45 different places. The motivations that kept us going was, to involve more people into the movement, to show them that a better way to produce and live was possible and that communitarian practices were the base were everything could be set.
We tried and keep trying to get funding from government, and enterprises, looking to apply those resources into better ways to take care of the need of people. Like a Trojan horse looking to change the system from within.

  • Purpose
  • Ecological
  • Languages
  • Spanish
  • Community type
  • Ecovillage
  • Activities
  • Ecological Restoration
  • Permaculture
  • Education

Commemorative dates

  • January 1, 2011
  • Started living together

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Mainly be conscious about the mission of regenerating land. And there is no recipe after that we analyze each case individually.

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  • Mexico

Permaculture demonstrative center for dry climate in Hidalgo mexico

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Gaia Ashram Internship

The Pioneers of Gaia Ashram , 5th of July– 2nd of August 2015 The Gaia Ashram Internship is a one month program on Ecovillage Design, Permaculture and Deep Ecology. The internship will be a holistic participatory learning experience & process. Interns will experience being part of the Gaia Ashram Community and we will live together for one month at– Gaia Ashram-. At Gaia Ashram we belief in holistic learning that balances the head, hands & heart. Gaia Ashram encourages participatory learning & values the power of community in holding the learning space. We design the daily & weekly structure of the internship and of our lives here based on these values and principles. Theoretical learning (Head) The theoretical sessions will be participatory and interactive. It will cover the 4 keys of Ecovillage Design Education (Social, Economical, Ecological and Worldview inspired by Gaia Education). Each week will cover one of the Ecovillage Design Keys and integrated into this we will be introduced to Permaculture Design & Deep Ecology in terms of philosophy, movement and personal experiences. Overall, We will have a maximum of 2-3 hours of theory per day on the session days, to also create lots of space for practical experiential learning. See more details of the key content below. Practical learning (Hands – on) For the hands – on practical learning we will be developing the Gaia Ashram’s farm and restoring nature on the Gaia Ashram land using permaculture strategies & techniques that are appropriate for the Rainy Season & the land and its local context. The hands-on work will focus on Gardening work i.e. developing the vegetable gardens, planting seeds & seedlings, transplanting, propagation of plants, making composts, growing and maintaining a Food Forest, planting green manures, planting lots of trees, planting seasonal crops. Apart from the Gardening we will also will be doing some natural building which mostly will focus on creating natural finishes usi

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