Community Gardens

Special space has been set aside at La Semilla for community garden plots, which will be available to rent annually. Individuals, families and organizations are welcome to rent a plot with the benefit of on-site watering, composting, and guidance from the La Semilla farm team. A garden plot can provide enough vegetables and herbs to meet a family’s needs for an entire growing season and offers precious opportunity to gather together as a community to share skills, knowledge and company.

Dates of Availability: December 6th – June 1st
Cost: 1,500 pesos
Includes: On-Site Watering, Tool Library, Composting Site & Farm Crew Guidance

La Semilla is actively seeking out one to two individuals who would like to coordinate the Community Gardens in exchange for a plot of their own.
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Volunteer at La Semilla!

La Semilla Regenerative Living & Ecology Center opens its arms to volunteers as an opportunity to share and receive in our effort to support sustainability education and initiatives within the world community. The Volunteer Exchange program at La Semilla is an opportunity to join a new and growing community in its first years of developing a holistic vision for living, demonstrating and teaching what it means to live & work in a "regenerative" manner on our planet.

We are seeking individuals who are interested in joining us in the everyday work of building this vision and can bring with them a commitment to community and development as a process requiring creativity, discipline, self-initiation, proactive engagement and at the same time, whimsical play.
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Community Supported Agriculture

A CSA reflects an innovative and resourceful strategy to connect local farmers with local consumers, develop a regional food supply and strong local economy, maintain a sense of community, encourage land stewardship, and honor the knowledge and experience of growers and producers working with small to medium sized farms.

Food system integrity is at the crux of ecological stewardship and sustainability. The farm at La Semilla seeks to model and investigate current approaches to organic and ecological agriculture. It also seeks to experiment with structures such as a CSA (Community-Supported Agriculture) program to provide for an economically-viable model of food production & distribution within the community.

Development Committee Action Plan: Our farm and CSA program have begun their season. As of yet, we have cleared the fields and begun seeding the season’s crops. Potential projects for the season will include the establishment of: Bokashi, compost & vermicompost systems, a gravity-fed & solar-powered irrigation system, perennial & medicinal herb gardens, a value-added foods project, and more!
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Community & Children's Programs

At the core of its mission, La Semilla is an educational vehicle, demonstration site and solution generator. A Children’s Education program for the public and private schooling system is in development. It will deliver educational programs through vegetable garden plots, workshops and training of school personnel. It will also host student groups on the farm for hands-on workshops in animal husbandry, food production and sustainable living technologies.

Development Committee Action Plan:
This project has already had its first meetings and is at a great start. We will continue to develop accessible educational models for the local school systems and investigate ways to involve the children in both public and private schools. A number of schools are already signed up developing pilot projects, such as tending their own community plot to experience all the phases of natural food production. One ecology club is forming that will be doing a native plant inventory of La Semilla and the surrounding bioregion. Further development within this committee will focus on working directly with the children, defining and refining programs and interactive projects, and investigating ways to integrate with more youth.
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Eco-Dwellings & Living Structures

We want La Semilla to be a playground… a place to live… a place to experiment… a place to gather as a community. For all of this, we envision land rich in ecologically-designed living and communal structures including eco-dwellings, sacred ceremony spaces, an outdoor kitchen, composting toilet system, grey-water catchment system, and beyond.

Development Committee Action Plan:
It’s time to dream, design and create! We would like to experiment with traditional ecological design and take as many opportunities as possible to integrate local approaches and local materials in the process.
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Community Composting Facility

The Community Composting Facility seeks to reclaim organic matter that would otherwise be disposed of as waste in homes and businesses in the San Jose Del Cabo community. This organic matter can instead be redirected into a composting system to yield “black gold," the most precious resource in any agricultural system!

Development Committee Action Plan:
This project is at its beginning. A site has been set aside for its conception, but the rest is yet to be seen. The Composting System & Facility require designing, building and eventually, coordination.
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Livestock & Animal Husbandry

A farm system is incomplete without its animal partners—goats, sheep, chickens, emus, rabbits… the list goes on—they are our partners in soil stewardship, weed maintenance, and insect control. La Semilla will be an exploration into the ways in which animals can be integrated into the farm system for self-sufficiency and food production.

Development Committee Action Plan:
There are so many routes to take with animal husbandry! Initial project ideas include the construction of livestock corrals and chicken tractors & the design of forage zones. There is a lot of room to grow with this project (as with them all)!
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Agroforestry Projects

Harnessing the wisdom and longevity of our local ecological system, we can design food systems that exhibit all the true characteristics of system stability, self-sufficiency being primary. As food production systems that are designed to mimic the structure and function of young and old forests, edible forest gardens seek this end. The forest gardens and agroforesty projects are an investigation into how we can partner with our local environment in order to achieve an abundant harvest while also regenerating and sustaining the land that serves us.

Development Committee Action Plan:
This project is in its genesis. To begin with, we would like to establish an inventory of local plants and their uses; an agroforestry nursery & seed bank; and an edible forest garden design.
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Development Committees

You have the opportunity throughout the coming season to join us at the center to birth our collective vision. We are interested in your ideas, your passion, your questions and most of all, your partnership! We are actively seeking individuals who would like to join our Participatory Development Committees and work with us at La Semilla!

Participatory Development Committees & Focus Groups:
-Design & Build Projects (Eco-Dwellings & Living Structures)
-Community Gardens
-Community Compost Facility
-Organic Farm & Community-Supported Agriculture (CSA) Program
-Edible Forest Gardens & Agroforestry Projects
-Community & Children’s Education Programs
-Livestock & Animal Husbandry Program
-Public Relations, Marketing & Networking
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Donate to the Cause!

La Semilla is currently working with a diverse selection of schools, local agricultural organizations, and non-profits as a technical consultant and facilitator to develop projects that achieve the community's vision for regional sustainability.

La Semilla is offering investment and donation opportunities at this time to strengthen the capacity of the organization to continue serving the community.

Please contact us directly to help support our efforts through investment or tax free donation. We have a fund for La Semilla de La Vida A.C. set up with International Communities Foundation. To access this page and support our educational efforts click below.

Thank you for the support, love and blessings!!!
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