To regenerate soils, reduce emissions, strengthen community resilience, and promote bioeconomy models rooted in local culture and climate adaptation.
To become a reference hub for climate-adaptive bioeconomy, regenerative agriculture, and community resilience in the Tropical Andes.
Restore soils, reduce open biomass burning, conserve water, and strengthen food sovereignty.
Empower local producers, reduce input costs, generate jobs, and engage youth and visitors.
Workshops in rural schools, partnerships with coffee producers, birdwatching/artists’ residencies, eco-tours.
Donations, regenerative product sales (meat, coffee, biofertilizers), eco-tourism, climate finance (biochar removals).
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Ecosystem Unity:
Andean tropical montane socio-ecological system.
Tropical montane (Andes).
Rainy season Apr–Nov; dry season Dec–Mar.
5°C to 28°C extremes.
La Mucuy watershed, draining toward the Chama River system.
Mountain aquifers and springs supply water; supplemented with rain harvesting.
Native oaks, cedars, hummingbirds, Andean bears, diverse bird species.
Montane valleys, foothills, and rural settlements.
Honors Andean campesino culture and Indigenous cosmovisions.
Traditional adobe, bahareque, and tapia architecture; coffee landscapes.
2015–2022: autoconstruction of Casa La Lumbre; 2020–present: biochar & regenerative agriculture programs.
Part of Sierra Nevada–La Culata ecological corridor.
≈15 km from Mérida city.
