Their Mission
The mission of Asanté Gardens is to live sustainably and joyfully as a tribal group in a permaculture-based, tropical food forest environment. Our goal is to create a place of refuge, rejuvenation, and holistic education, and to become a model for emerging ecovillages around the world.
As an ecovillage, we intend to:
- live harmoniously, joyfully, and in deep gratitude of one another
- become economically and environmentally sustainable, with a minimal ecological impact
- be a model for intensive tropical food farming, producing an abundance and surplus of food year round, while using natural and organic farming methods, and permaculture
- use eco-friendly alternatives for power, water, transportation, and waste systems
- use and promote eco-friendly natural building techniques, using local and low-cost materials
- become largely car-free and petroleum-free
- achieve a state of zero landfill waste produced
- cultivate a tribal, village lifestyle, where each person is accessing and expressing their highest creative potential
- cultivate an economy of giving, sharing, and thoughtful consideration of needs
- promote compassionate, cooperative, and mindful living, as a way forward for human settlements on the planet, and to preserve and support ecosystems and the natural world