The document describes La Semilla, an ecological living and teaching center in Mexico. It includes an organic farm, green building center, animal husbandry center, community composting, gardens, and medicinal plant gardens. It offers trainings in ecological living, tours of its facilities, an immersion program in sustainability topics, and community workshops in subjects like nutrition, gardening and agriculture. The center's goals are to model and teach organic farming, green building techniques, and animal integration while disseminating these approaches in the community and training the next generation of sustainability leaders.

1. San Jose del Cabo, BCS, Mexico

2. Organic Ecological Teaching Farm
Green Building Design Center
Animal Husbandry Center
Community Composting Center
Community Gardens
Living Pharmacy Medicinal Gardens
Ecological Living Ambassador Trainings
Regenerative Living Interactive Tours
International Ecological Agriculture Community
Development Immersion Program
Farmer-to-Farmer Technical Training Program
Regenerative Living Community Workshop Series

3. ~ Organic Ecological Teaching Farm ~
The Farm at La Semilla seeks to model and investigate
current approaches to organic and ecological agriculture.
It will host Community Workshops and Farmer-to-
Farmer Training Series to disseminate and explore the
applicability of such models within the San Jose del Cabo
community.
~ From the farm fields and the chicken coop…
To the kitchen table! ~

4. ~ Eco-Dwellings Living Structures ~
Educational Green Building Design demonstration
sites in La Semilla’s Land Use Plan will be constructed
placing special emphasis on creative, practical
and simple-to-learn technologies designed to
source low-cost or locally-available materials.

5. La Semilla is an exploration into the ways in which animals can
be integrated into the farm system for self-sufficiency and food
production. It disseminates successful models, technologies and
learning processes through the Community Children’s
Education Programs.
The Animal Husbandry Center will also promote home-scale
food production through an Animal Adoption Caretaking
Program where families interested In becoming self-sufficient in
milk, meat, egg or fiber production can adopt an animal from La
Semilla and enroll in a Caretaking Training program to learn all
they need to know about taking care of the animal in the home.

6. participants in staff in the medicinal and
TEACH
PRODUCE
TRAIN
the therapeutic preparation aromatic plants
management and dosage of with the
and cultivation tinctures, philosophy of a
of medicinal ointments, living pharmacy.
plants. gels and
syrups.

9. ~ Ecological Living Ambassador Trainings ~
Intensives meant to provide immersive, hands-on
Ecological Living Training, introducing students aged
12-25 to sustainable living techniques and approaches
that they, as Ecological Ambassadors, can incorporate
into their home life and bring back to their respective
schools and communities.

10. Regenerative Living
Interactive Tours
La Semilla’s Interactive
Tours take groups of
students, families and
professionals on immersive
tours of La Semilla’s wild
estuary floodplain to learn
through all senses about
their native environment
and how it functions.
This tour also introduces
visitors to La Semilla’s
Regenerative Living
Demonstration Sites
engaging them in
interactive, hands-on
workshops throughout their
experience.

11. ~ International Ecological Agriculture
Community Development Immersion Program ~
Students from around the
world are given the
opportunity to engage in an
immersive, project-based
study experience in Applied
Sustainability Studies.
Interested and qualified
students will be given a
hands-on experience in the
design, implementation and
evaluation of a community
development project with
collaborative guidance and
assistance from La Semilla’s
technical team within the
following Immersion
Concentrations:
ORGANIC ECOLOGICAL AGRICULTURE
PERMACULTURE GREEN BUILDING
ECOLOGICAL FOREST GARDENING
CHILDREN’S ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION

12. ~ Regenerative Living
Community Workshop Series ~
La Semilla is a gathering point for educators, students,
families, and technical professionals to offer their skills,
knowledge, experiences and visions to the collective
manifestation of an Educational Center that speaks directly to
the needs of San Jose del Cabo and our times…
NUTRITION
GARDEN ECOLOGY
URBAN GARDENING AGROFORESTRY
GREEN ARCHITECTURE

13. • Community Mapping Project Development
2010
• Organic Ecological Teaching Farm Establishment
• Community Gardens Establishment
• Green Building Center Establishment
• Non-Profit Status Established
• Community Committee Establishment
• Fundraising Campaign Non-Profit Development
2011
• Early Continuing Education Program Development
• Living Pharmacy Establishment
• Early Continuing Education Program Pilot Development
• Continued Fundraising Non-Profit Development
• Composting Center Establishment
2012 • Green Building Animal Husbandry Center Development
• Ecological Forest Gardens Establishment
• Coordinated Multiple-Farm CSA Program Development
• Edible School Garden Program Development
• Regional Seed Saving Operation Educational Program Development
2013
• Continued Fundraising Non-Profit Development