Tierra Valiente (Brave Earth) is a living lab embodied through a learning center, regenerative farm, emerging residential community, and mutual-aid network.

The impulse for Tierra Valiente stems from an awareness of our civilizational trajectory within the dominant culture embedded with the logics of extraction, colonization, and separation from the living world. We are both informed by this critical lens and inspired to create outside of the old incentive landscapes to build a culture rooted in reciprocity, regeneration and resiliency.

Our 88-acre commons is held in a trust and is home to the Center for Applied Cultural Transition, a learning center where we offer experiences at the intersection of the political, spiritual and ecological all through an animist lens. We are curating these containers to decolonize the conditioning of the dominant system and to be in deeper service to our collective potential.

Our regenerative and syntropic farm is integrated into our center both providing the nourishment for guests and acting as a demonstration site to share the importance and benefits of these practices to grow healthy foods, revitalize our soils and sequester carbon.

Our mutual-aid network, Fuerza De Amor, serves the local community through acts of service and solidarity. Through deep listening to the needs of the community the activities of the mutual-aid network have varied over the years from home renovations to create dignified and safe living conditions, planting trees and food gardens, repairs on the local school, and programs for the youth.

We are committed to protecting ecological and cultural biodiversity through conservation of land and creating biological corridors. We have successfully shut down an old tilapia farm that was polluting the main river that flows through the community, Rio Chachagua. As well as closing a road that was used by poachers and loggers to access Bosque de Eterno Niños (BEN), the Children’s Eternal Rainforest, one of the most biodiverse areas on the planet relative to its size.

Tierra Valiente serves as an incubator for sibling projects that are stewarded by members of the community including: Culture Hack Labs (CHL) and Transition Resource Circle (TRC).

Culture Hack Labs is a not-for-profit that supports social movements, foundations and activists to shift the cultural narratives that create and justify ecological breakdown, extraction, and inequality.

Transition Resource Circle is a “temporary organizational zone” that focuses on evolving the philanthropic sector with the intention of rebalancing wealth, power and historical injustices.

In a time of systems collapse, our intention is to embody the transition pathways that create other possibilities in service to Life.

Your contribution goes towards:

🌱 Protecting Biodiversity - securing contiguous land to Bosque de Eterno Niños which is currently in contract to be sold to a hotel development company.

🌱 Supporting mutual-aid - activities to cultivate more resilience in the community of San Juan such as planting community gardens and safeguarding homes from flooding.

Thank you for your generosity and support!