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Objective
SacredSueños aims to regenerate a small (10 hectares) piece of degraded mountainside into a self-sufficient farm community, using permaculture design principles. We plan to reforest using non-native and exotic species, experiment with and apply appropriate technologies, and practice intensive organic gardening in order to find a way to provide the needs of a small community while simultaneously restore soil fertility, increase biodiversity, and be carbon negative. This is not an easy task, especially given the property's remote location in southern Ecuador. The farm gratefully depends on the motivation and hard work of it's volunteers (and hopefully soon, interns) whose labour more often than not replaces electric or petroleum generated energy to accomplish our many projects.

Focussing on manual labour rather than unsustainable technologies demands a lot of time. Based on what we've learned from my first four years of experience developing SacredSueños, I believe it could take between 10 and 15 years before the land is fully developed. But though it may take time, concentrating on being extremely resourceful and labour intensive has a very low cost. The current budget is relatively minimal. The largest expense is myself as facilitator of SacredSueños, with my food contribution of $25 and my 10$ stipend each week. The cost of materials and tools has averaged around only $700 annually these first four years.