Stush Bush

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About the Communities

  • Forming
  • English
  • Ecological
  • Rural

Founding year

  • 2019

What we do

StushBush was created by Anthony Carlos, who used to be a fashion designer in New York and wanted to return to his homeland in Guyana. Stush is a local term for a person who is “different from the regular” and being in nature is referred to as “going to the bush”. StushBush is an ecovillage in the process of being built that welcomes all offbeat artisans who want to live closer to the earth and make sustainable artisan crafts.
The land already has many fruit trees — banana, mango, orange, saffodilla, coconut, guava, guayara, white tea — and a plantation of vegetables. There are birds, monkeys, and baboons, iguanas, and salipenters aplenty.
StushBush has 3 main missions:

  • Use art and education to motivate fellow locals to live eco-friendly lives using hands-on, experiential education through workshops and events (i.e. fashion shows, music performances, farm tours)
  • Support people’s spiritual journey and healing through personal development through healings, personal development, and retreats.
  • Self-produce the basics of a good life — food, clothing, and shelter by co-owning land and homesteading with the local community

Future Facilities: greenhouse, fashion district (recycled and natural eco-clothing made on-site), beer garden, garden + fruit tree plantation, food market, A-frame tiny home campground, kitchen +restaurant with BBQ grill, recycling facility, swimming pond, full homes and residences.
Current stage: *** Looking for members, work exchangers, laborers, and artisans. *** Ready to open for camping October 24th, 2021.
Current facilities: A-frame glamping sites, open land to camp on, main villa, garden + fruit trees.
StushBush will use co-ownership models for owning residences on the property. You can apply to be a resident, and you have the chance to rent land, farm, and bring business to the village.
StushBush is receiving ecovillage consulting from Terrenity (terrenity.org) to help support the design and development process of building an ecovillage.

  • Purpose
  • Ecological
  • Languages
  • English
  • Community type
  • Ecovillage
  • Intentional Neighborhoods
  • Land-Based Communities
  • Activities
  • Education

Commemorative dates

  • January 1, 2019
  • Started planning
  • January 1, 2021
  • Started living together
  • Open to new members
  • Open to visitors
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How to join

Currently looking for long-term residents and work exchangers. To join, you can come live on the property and build a house under a co-ownership model.

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Location

  • Guyana

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12 years ago

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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