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Punta Mona Center for Regenerative Design & Botanical Studies

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Commenced:	01/08/1995
Submitted:	21/04/2017
Last updated:	21/04/2017
Location:	Punta Mona, Gandoca-Manzanillo Wildlife Refuge, Punta Mona, Limon, Talamanca, CR
Phone:	+506 8485 0634
Website:	https://www.puntamona.org
Climate zone:	Wet Tropical

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Punta Mona Center for Regenerative Design & Botanical Studies

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Rural, Community, School Projects, Educational

Project Summary

Punta Mona’s mission is to provide, through the principles and practice of Permaculture and organic lifestyle, an alternative to the destructive land use practices, loss of cultural heritage and community, depletion of our natural resources, decimation of biodiversity and rampant wastefulness taking place throughout Costa Rica and the world. We are an 85-acre, off-the-grid, beachfront, family owned, environmental education center, botanical collection, established organic permaculture farm and an eco-lodge, dedicated to regenerative ways of living. At Punta Mona we grow most of our own food organically, which includes hundreds of species of tropical fruits, vegetables, herbs, medicinal plants as well as bamboo and extensive native hardwood reforestation, use eco-technologies, create a sense of community and are dedicated to educating learners of all ages and from all walks of life. We believe Punta Mona is a unique place and one that has much to teach about the things we take for granted, the power of community, imagination, equality and the beauty of living a simple, intentional life.

Project Description

85-acre total property, 12 in permaculture "development", the rest is primary rainforest. We have extensive food forest and bamboo groves, extensive reforestation, and we are an educational facility that can house up to 150 people in the lodges and in glamping.

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