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Sustainable life in Misiones

Help us host our first Natural Building Workshop!

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Sustainable life in Misiones

Sustainable life in Misiones

Sustainable life in Misiones

Sustainable life in Misiones

Sustainable life in Misiones

Help us host our first Natural Building Workshop!

Help us host our first Natural Building Workshop!

Help us host our first Natural Building Workshop!

Help us host our first Natural Building Workshop!

Matias Man
Matias Man
Matias Man
Matias Man
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Campo Ramon, Argentina
$456 USD 8 backers
15% of $3,000 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal
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Summary

We all want to live a good life. Most want to help create a better world. More and more are hearing the call to live in close relation with Nature, and to learn first hand what it means to provide for the very essentials of life: food and medicine, shelter, clothing, community.

By sheer Fortune or good Karma, we were given the opportunity to inhabit a small portion of our Mother Earth. We received the stewardship of 10 hectares of agricultural land in the Misiones province, in northeastern Argentina, where the world famous Iguazu falls are located.

We have settled this land with no facilities; there is no house, no electricity, gas stoves, or phone signal…. We do enjoy drinking pure spring water, firewood cooking, bathing in the river, and all the surprises that living outdoors entails.

The garden is growing, as well as the fruits of our manual creative labor, as we learn to make our own furniture, shelter, even kitchen utensils!

Sharing our learning process is one of the main priorities, so the idea came to host a natural building workshop, in which we can reach out to locals.

People in this province –mostly from European descent- have not embraced the ancient wisdom of the original inhabitants of this land, the Guarani Nation. Specifically, no one builds with mud anymore… the norm is wooden plank houses, which offer no insulation against the weather, decay very fast in this weather, and add to the rate of deforestation of the region.

Even though it is a natural paradise, this is an impoverished province, and rural people struggle to meet their needs, seeing no options other than to cut down the jungle in order to grow highly chemicalized tobacco, tea and yerba mate, and monocultures of pine trees and eucalyptus.

 What We Need & What You Get

As we have dedicated our lives to this project, we have had to -temporarily- surrender other conventional modes of fundraising (e.g. jobs!).

In order to host the workshop, build a small cabin and take one huge step towards self-reliance, we will need some manual tools (enough for workshop attendants) and building materials (mainly sand, metal roofing, nails and such).

We are committed to building as much with natural materials as possible, harvesting what we can from where we are, such as the clay, stone, bamboo...

We are intending to grow enough food to supply for the people attending the workshops, so as the veggies grow we need to sustain ourselves and continue to buy seed and groceries...

One of the main goals is to establish a food forest to restore the fields, so some of the funding will go to buying fruit and native hardwood trees, always aimed at increasing the diversity.

 The Impact

 By hosting a natural building workshop, and actively inviting locals to participate free of charge, we are hoping to spread our enthusiasm for mud and its many advantages (such as preserving trees from being cut down for new houses and improving the quality of life of the inhabitants).

We are hoping to share the ways in which we are learning to free ourselves from further enriching the middlemen. Organically grown food, alternative energy sources, communal ownership of equipment are all part of the approach.

There are already many people and projects in the province working towards true sustainability and wholesome living.

We are inspired to expand and enrich this web of guardians of seed and naturaldiversity.

 

Other Ways You Can Help

If you can't help monetarily, please spread the word about us and about the situation in this region, both the immense challenges and the hopeful projects that coexist.

Creative input, practical advice, spiritual support and hard working volunteers are more than welcome!

And... organic seeds are highly valued!!!!

 

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