Finca Sagrada

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About the Community

  • Established
  • Rural

What we do

Finca Sagrada is a multi-generational community in Ecuador’s Vilcabamba valley, centered on child-led development and ecological restoration. We practice natural building with adobe and local materials, develop permaculture food systems, and participate in the adjacent Kuntur Wachana reforestation initiative.

Our community organizes around the wellbeing of all members and especially children, and the health of land. Daily life integrates hands-on work, collective decision-making, and learning through direct experience. Children grow with freedom to explore, learn at their own pace, and develop surrounded by nature and multiple caring adults.

Kuntur Wachana Reforestation

Adjacent to our community land, the Kuntur Wachana project is restoring 235 hectares of degraded Andean mountain terrain. Through partnership with Árbol con Razón Foundation, over 20,000 native trees have been planted with 80% survival rates. The project aims to regenerate cloud forest ecosystems, protect watersheds, and create wildlife corridors.

Community members participate in tree planting and maintenance as part of our connection to the broader landscape.

Our Vision

Finca Sagrada exemplifies a nature-based, multi-generational learning center where people can reconnect to self, community and nature through heartfelt thinking.

Current Focus: Natural building with local materials, regenerative agriculture and food forests, child-centered living and learning, developing governance structures for collective land stewardship, active participation in mountain reforestation, personal and community transformation opportunities.

Our Mission

Finca Sagrada exemplifies a nature-based, multi-generational learning center where people can reconnect to self, community and nature through heartfelt thinking.

Current Focus: Natural building with local materials, regenerative agriculture and food forests, child-centered living and learning, developing governance structures for collective land stewardship, active participation in mountain reforestation, personal and community transformation opportunities.

  • Community type
  • Cohousing
  • Ecovillage
  • 13 Total members
  • Open to new members
  • Open to visitors
  • Open to volunteers
Total
13

How to join

If a person wishes to join our community we ask them to stay in the community for three to six months. If there is mutual resonance, there is a community conversation to discuss membership.

Basic expectations or agreements for members

Please email [email protected].

Primary decision-making authority

  • Small Leadership Group

A few people (not elected by the broader community) make the major decisions.

Governance structure

  • Collaborative/Horizontal

Power and responsibility are shared relatively equally among members.

Economic model

  • Independent Finances

Members maintain separate personal finances with minimal sharing.

Economic scenarios for this community

  • There is a one-time fee, investment, or share purchase to join the community separate from accessing housing
  • Members need to pay fees, dues, or similar to live there on a per month or per year basis
  • There is a labor obligation
  • Members typically need to have their own job or other personal source of income to cover their expenses while living in the community?

Additional economic information

Join fee: Yes (amount not specified)
Monthly fees/dues: $600
Labor: Encouraged or suggested
Members with pre-existing debt: Yes (some debt)

Shared resources and amenities that are accessible to everyone in the community

Common House, Garden(s), Greenhouse(s), Library, Outbuilding(s), Swimming pond or pool, Outdoor Kitchen, Large Scale Kitchen, Fire pit, Waterfront access, Internet, Spirit House with fire ceremony

Frequency of communal meals

  • Approximately 1 meal per day

Substance use culture

  • Substance use occurs primarily at celebrations or ceremonies
  • Religions
  • Christian
  • Hindu
  • Quaker
  • Native
  • Wiccan, Paganism, or Earth Religions

Property status

  • Privately owned

Setting

  • Rural

Countryside locations with significant distance from urban centers.

Self-produced energy

  • 33 - 66%

Energy sources used

  • Photovoltaic Solar

Self-produced food

  • Up to 33%
  • Land area size
    5 hectares

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Location

  • Loja, Ecuador

Promoted Needs and Offers

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  • Communities with Openings
2 months ago

Community House in SE Portland Seeks Membership!

Ellis Street Community House is seeking kind, present, and engaged new housemates with experience in community living. We are currently 3 adults and one baby living in a 6 bedroom, 3 bath house on ¼ acre of land near Powell Butte nature park and the Springwater Corridor bike trail. For us, living in community is a collaborative process, one that helps improve our quality of life. We’re able to eat great food, keep the place clean, maintain a garden, and hold a space large enough to host guests and events by working together. We have an extensive community library and art/craft material collection, as well as a great tea selection, stocked pantry, and functional kitchens ready for feast-making, canning, and fermentation dreams. We make kombucha, ginger beer, sauerkraut, bone broth, natto, and apple/pear butter on a rotating basis. With two fridges and two deep freezers we can save blueberries and blackberries we harvested from close by and get meat directly from farmers. We hold potlucks and other events like bonfires and game nights about once a month, and make a house dinner together weekly. We maintain a home free from artificial fragrances and voice-activated technology. The large downstairs room is available for $740 per month. It is next to the back door with zero steps to entry. We have another room upstairs that is available for $700 per month for one person or $800 for a parent and child. Guest space is available for friends and relatives of residents – upstairs there is an office/guest room for longer visits, and the couches/pads in the common areas are available for shorter stays. The home has heating and cooling through an efficient heat pump, and we just upgraded to a tankless water heater. Utilities usually run around $100 per month. We also share expenses for groceries and cleaning supplies, you’ll receive reimbursement for groceries if you go shopping often, or contribute typically $50-75 per month if you don’t go shopp
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  • Forming Communities
2 months ago

40 Acre Nevada City Ca Elderly and Stewards co-ownership founders buy in 50k-150k

ROOTS & LEGACY — FOUNDING COMMUNITY LAND TRUST Nevada City, California · 40 Acres · Forming Now OVERVIEW Roots & Legacy is a forming intergenerational Community Land Trust on 40 acres of agricultural land in the Sierra Nevada foothills near Nevada City, California. We are seeking 5 to 8 founding members — both Elder Members who bring capital and Steward Members who bring skill and labor — to establish a permanent, co-owned community held in trust across generations. We are in active purchase negotiations. The landowner is carrying half the note. Founding member capital closes the gap. This is an imminent, concrete opportunity. THE LAND The land has substantial usable terrain well-suited to permaculture design, food forest establishment, sustainable structures, and small-scale agriculture. Nevada City is a vibrant, arts-forward community with a strong culture of intentional living, local food, and sustainability. BUILT-IN INCOME & WORKSHOPS The community’s founder is a certified sustainable builder and permaculture designer with years of hands-on experience building with aircrete — a lightweight, fire-resistant, highly insulating building material ideal for domes and tiny homes. See pictures to see workshops and builds. This is a valuable asset to getting the foundations built to housing and income. We are looking for people who want a real home, not a vacation. Specifically: – Elders ready to invest in permanence, community care, and a meaningful living while handing down there wisdom to the next generation – Builders, farmers, makers, and healers ready to earn co-ownership through two years of genuine stewardship – People with experience in intentional community, NVC, permaculture, sustainable building, or cooperative living
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