Amazing amazon
At Fruit Haven Ecovillage, we are creating a sustainable eco-village and a functioning permaculture fruit farm. We hope to inspire vegans to live sustainably by growing organic fruits and vegetables in our community.
Refreshing
Abiu fresh from the tree!
Pour Over
Fresh cacao pods grown on our land.
sweetness
Badea looks like a giant passionfruit. They are actually from the same genus, but badea can be sweet when it’s ripe ☀️
so juicy and tasty!
Our community values are important to our unity and success:
- A strong work ethic: Responsible care-taking of the land to maintain and increase production of fruits and vegetables
- Permaculture methods of farming
- Consuming whole plant-based foods (see: diet and lifestyle)
- Living a life free of alcohol and other hard drugs
- Maintaining spiritual health
- Maintaining physical health
- Doing our best to help the people, animals, and plants around us
- Protecting individual liberty
- Forming a healthy society
Located on the edge of the Ecuadorian Amazon rainforest, at the foothills of the Andes mountains.
The community areas and private lots had successfully grown and produced (small or large amounts): bananas (5+ varieties), rollinia, plantains, papayas, abiu, marang, jackfruit, mamey sapote, ackee, black sapote, mandarins, oranges, lemons, peanut butter fruit, Surinam cherry, jaboticaba, cupuçu, cacao, canistel, sapodilla, bacao (bicolor), ice cream bean, soursop, starfruit, borojo, noni, blackberry jam fruit, Mysore raspberry, yellow dragon fruit, cucumbers, tomatoes, zuccini, squash local/wild fruits, and tropical annual or perennial vegetables such as katuk, cranberry hibiscus, winged beans, taro, yuca, sweet potato, yacon and Brazilian spinach.
Read our website pages about staying as a volunteer, joining as a community member, or buying into the project as a trustee with your name on the land title.
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There are many ways to join us in this beautiful region of Ecuador, by volunteering, renting a room or cabin, signing up for our detox program, or even buying land.
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