Badass Fruiterrarist Land

Vegan Reforestation & Food Forest Project in the Amazon of Ecuador

Imagine a lush tropical valley, wild and full of diverse life…
Rivers and streams flowing through an abundant jungle of fruit…
Friends, freedom, independence, peace, and privacy…

This is the future of Badass Fruiterrarist Land, a valley in the Amazon of northern Ecuador where we are reforesting and creating food forests for self-sufficiency and food freedom.

Large farms are available in this area at a low cost per hectare (to our knowledge, some of the cheapest in the tropics) to grow your food and live your way, but with the friendship and support of like-minded people around you.

Buy your own land or share with others to conserve and reforest, with the opportunity to ditch Babylon and live freely in the tropics.

This is not a traditional “intentional community” with a formal structure, leadership, governance, rules, meetings, or sharing circles… and it never will be. This is an area where people who hold strong vegan ethics and share the same core values can live in proximity while collaborating to revive an ecosystem and grow a radical abundance of fruit.

Our mission is to reclaim and reforest this land in western Orellana,
to cultivate a contiguous and abundant fruit forest,
and to form a local network of fruiterrarists who preserve the tranquillity of the forest
for all peaceful wild beings to enjoy in perpetuity.

This is a beautiful valley near the Sumaco Napo-Galeras National Park with gentle rolling hills, many rivers, streams, and waterfalls, superb weather year-round, and tons of space for growing a large-scale sustainable food forest.

We started the project with a 3.52-hectare plot of land that we are restoring from cow pasture and monoculture cacao/coffee plantations to high-density fruit forest with a variety of native and exotic trees and other beneficial vegetation.

Many of our neighbours want to sell their land, so we are inviting like-minded people to restore the misused land back to a healthy, self-sustaining, biodiverse forest ecosystem and to create a network of fruiterrarists working together toward achieving the same goals. Reforesting and protecting this area will provide critical habitat for many native animal species.

With each and every day that goes by, more and more people are destroying land here, so the time to do something is now.

We can support each other by sharing knowledge, experience, seeds, seedlings, harvests, and labour, all on a voluntary basis with the intention of strengthening each other’s efforts for the benefit of the food forest, but without force or requirement — true freedom and voluntaryism.

We can provide guidance to people who would like help with finding the right land, the land acquisition process, reforesting, creating and managing a food forest, living in Ecuador with or without a longer-term visa, and navigating life here in general. We try to keep things as simple and straightforward as possible.

For more information about the project and available land, as well as volunteering opportunities, see our website.
https://amazonrestore.codeberg.page/badass-fruiterrarist-land/

We also have more photos on Pixelfed.
https://gram.social/amazonrestore

We envision a private, peaceful, diverse, abundant, and self-sustaining food forest ecosystem
which shelters all fruiterrarists great and small
from the vices and viciousness of Babylon, from the seasonality of the savanna,
from the tyranny of collectivism and conformity, from the tragedies of hate and indifference.