"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." -Gandhi

Areas of interest:
1. Farming and Home Economics 
2. Community Service - education, food production
3. Research - agriculture, food, biopiracy, healthcare
4. Microeconomics - Fondo Integral (Integral Fund) provides small loans to people in need of capital investment in Mexico.

The beauty of microeconomics, or cottage industry, resides in the fact that with only a small amount of money, much can be done in the way of helping people to become self-reliant, to maintain dignity and to meet the basic needs for themselves and their families. We know all too well what happens when people, for example in Latin America, are forced off their land and into the crowded cities where the conditions of poverty include crime, violence, various forms of pollution and the economic slavery of exploitative companies.

In essence, to work in the community service projects, sustainability and interrelationship must become an integral part of our own lifestyles as we meet our basic needs, and value the time and energy necessary for creating quality of life in various ways or forms, such as: education, art, multicultural experience, camaraderie, preservation of culture, harmony with nature and spiritual practice. Vocation, as devotional social work is the same, while we assist others to become more self-sufficient and even to experience happiness, we realize that we are no different than they. Ideally, it is to follow a Gandhian model of working selflessly, where the helper and helped are not seen as separate.

Call for Donations to the microcredit fund (Xalapa Mutual microBank). Layne Hartsell is developing a general fund here in Santa Fe to provide funding for the expansion of microcredit and business services to the poor in Xalapa and the surrounding region of the State of Veracruz, Mexico. Currently, he is trying to raise ,500

I you feel an affinity for this project and would like to donate, contact Layne Hartsell at: 505-501-3233

Tierra Azul Gardens
P.O. Box 631
Santa Fe, N.M. 87504
(505) 501.3233
Email us at: tierraazulprojects@hotmail.com