The land available for the development of the Eco Village is about 10 acres, 5000 squared meters, with possibility of expansion, mostly on a hill facing the Caribbean Sea.
The land is a perfect living explanation of the nickname of Jamaica, “The Rock”. It’s made of limestone and small trees, with no real soil for cultivation but with amazing natural sculptures of stones, also providing the main building material that we are using for the construction of the “Social Space”
We aim to manage the available space to create:
-a natural reserve of native forest and wild life (birds, insects, butterflies, lizards, mangoust and whoever likes to join)
-a productive space for breeding and preserving local chickens now “out of fashion”
-an open sky Museum with site-specific sculptures
- experiencial tourism with the setting of a cultural path in the nature on the history of Jamaica and its indigenous ancient inhabitants (Taino’s) and the creation of sensorial paths with medicinal and aromatic plants
- an Art Gallery with artifact form the age of slavery on and folk memorabilias from all over the world
- an eco village with at least 10 independent cottages built with natural materials, (30/45 squared meters each) to be rented to travellers or to be owned by co-livers or supporters of the eco village
- a “social hut” with common kitchen for international cooking seminars and the spreading of the convivial culture of joined food preparation and sharing, social dining, training activities, book exchange library, movies and documentaries projection space, workshop, meetings, books presentation, conferences, storytelling and live music events, dancefloor, solarium, yoga and metitation, social theatre and whatever you can propose and imagin.
- a “social dorm” for hosting volunteers, woofers, workaway protagonist helping in all the different activities of the ecovillage
- a center of environmental education in partnership with other existing organisations
- naturalistic pathways for experiencing “direct picking” of fruit and vegetables form our organic garden beds and to partecipate actively in the “social dinners”