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.
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.
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.
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.
Please email [email protected].
A few people (not elected by the broader community) make the major decisions.
Power and responsibility are shared relatively equally among members.
Members maintain separate personal finances with minimal sharing.
Join fee: Yes (amount not specified)
Monthly fees/dues: $600
Labor: Encouraged or suggested
Members with pre-existing debt: Yes (some debt)
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
Countryside locations with significant distance from urban centers.
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