There is incredible regeneration happening at our nature reserve Origen del Agua...
This was the land we bought with crowdfunding. back in 2021. It was where the Barichara Regeneration Fund began. At that time, it was a barren landscape of ecological destruction. Erosion channels so deep you could fall in. Exposed rock and clay all around.
It has been three and a half years since we began restoring this 3.2 hectare piece of land -- all the way back to April of 2021. Now there is vegetative cover, clusterings of diverse plants, erosion has been stopped, and soils are being established.
Here is a photo of Jessica Lisiewski. She leads the restoration work on the land. You can see her among a series of terraced syntropic gardens in one of the most eroded and exposed areas on the land.
Earlier this year, a local foundation called Guayacanal came and planted several thousand trees. Volunteers and school groups have come to learn dryland restoration techniques. Syntropic agroforestry principles have been applied. A lot of learning takes place at Origen del Agua!
In this photo, you can see a grid-like pattern of dots that is where trees were planted in a large ecosystem restoration effort earlier this year. The exposed mounds on the right are where the terraced gardens are being put in place.
Origen del Agua is a key pillar of our regenerative education work and an exemplar for how to take the most degraded land you can find and transform it into a healthy ecosystem -- all with children at the heart of the work.
Kids from various local schools, including our own Sueños del Bosque, go there to learn how to bring forests back to degraded land. Soils are beginning to take hold. Islands of diverse plant life holding anchors to the ground.
As we weave so many educational activities in Barichara, the role or Origen del Agua slowly takes hold. It is a very important anchor in our multi-location strategy for territorial regeneration.
Onward, fellow humans.
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