Rancho Mastatal Sustainable Education Center

Mission: Rancho Mastatal is an education center and community rooted in environmental sustainability, meaningful, place-based livelihoods and healthy caring relationships.

From www.ic.org/directory/rancho-mastatal/:

Nestled against the virgin rainforest of La Cangreja National Park, Rancho Mastatal Sustainability Education Center has been teaching, exploring, and promoting techniques of living harmoniously in the landscape since 2001. Renowned for it’s natural building and delicious culinary spreads of fresh homemade food, the Ranch offers profound, innovative and authentic apprenticeships and workshops throughout the year. Visitors will experience a rural Costa Rican community, delight in 300 acres of pristine forests and waterfalls, and participate in a working permaculture farm.

Through the collective efforts of many long-term community members, the Ranch has established itself as one of the premier sites in tropical America to gain hands on experience in natural building, fermentation, agroforestry, permaculture design, homesteading, and community development.

A service of the Data Commons Co-op. The project has been supported by Equal Exchange, the Cooperative Charitable Trust, the USDA, and many others - thank you! Tech volunteers over the years include: Benjamin Bradley with support from GAIA Host. Ben Mauer with support from Quilted. Paul Fitzpatrick. Ronin Tech Collective, Brattleboro Tech Collective, Sligo Computer Services. Jason Lemieux. Default map tiles courtesy of MapQuest. Default map data (c) OpenStreetMap contributors, CC-BY-SA.