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| ABOUT Tierra Azul Projects
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Individual - Community - Nature
Currently we are involved in a couple of different projects. In Aguaje, Veracruz, Mexico, we have provided microcredit for a team of sisters to build a greenhouse to grow jitomate and orchids. They will be able to sell these in various cities around Mexico. The project will provide jobs for up to 15 women, who might otherwise end-up working in the local maquilla. We are also raising money to provide funds for another greenhouse, which will also be used to grow jitomate. This will involve a group of farmers near Huatusco, Veracruz, Mexico. The cost is 3,000 USD.
*for more on these projects, including pictures, please see our "microProjects pages" page
To support cottage industry we have begun by giving microcredit to a team of two women in Xalapa, to obtain the raw materials for making clothing. *for more, please see "Projects Xalapa" page.
Ongoing: We are currently raising money to form an experimental farm/village for sustainable living in New Mexico. We have a booklet available on our catalogue page entitled "Tierra Azul Village Project: Building Communities Based on Sustainability and Interrelationship." 10.00 USD plus shipping and handling.
We also have plans for the distant future to do another farm/village on land that has been donated in the mountains of Oaxaca. This will involve building "sustainable" dwellings, an office, greenhouses and a meditation center. The organic farm is to be interactive with the larger community in forming a seed bank, a medicinal plant pharmacy, and to provide for the exchange of information.
Soon we will have clothing and other items available on our catalog page!
Guiding concepts for the project include: exploration, spiritual practice, experimentation, simplicity, sustainable living, experientiation, harmony and multidisciplinary studies
*The Tierra Azul Projects are strictly non-profit. Community service workers with Tiera Azul Projects practice simplicity, where each worker takes what is necessary for basic needs and holds whatever wealth he or she has in trust for service related projects. Tierra Azul Projects is not considered an organization, but a group of people coming together. Land and other material resources are held in trust for use in service work. For more information, see our "Comm. Service/Volunteering" page.
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Tierra Azul Organization
Microeconomics - cottage industry
Social - village project, devotional community service, education
Research - information, study, publishing
Spiritual practice - contemplation, meditation
Ann Peters is a writer and teacher living in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is currently involved in the coordination of the village farm project and the Tierra Azul Food Source Co-op. Bartolome Aparicio Salvador is a Benedictine monk from Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico. He has studied voice (Baroque), art and various healing/medicine traditions. Aparicio will be a full-time monastic resident in the sustainable village project. He lives in Cuernavaca, Mexico and Los Angeles, CA.
Madre Celina is a Franciscan nun from Veracruz, Mexico involved in the general support of the projects. Layne Hartsell practices every moment meditation applied to community service. He has graduate degrees in biology and psychology, and has worked in biomedical research and taught on the high school and college levels. Currently, he is working on the village farm and gardening projects and on the Tierra Azul Food Source Co-op. He lives in New Mexico and Veracruz, Mexico.
Contact Us
tierraazulprojects@hotmail.com
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