Regenerative mindsets lead to abundant landscapes

We transformed the land that is now Casa Curativa from a modern monoculture coffee plantation into a verdant and biodiverse landscape brimming with food, medicine, color, and beauty in just a few years.

We now live within a magical and abundant food forest. The gifts of this land are multifarious.

Ways to visit us

Take a tour of the grounds…

Ceremonial Fire
Farm-to-Table
Food Forest
Yoga Shala/Group Space
Thoughtful Design
Comfortable Interiors
Cold Plunge Pools
Furry Friends
Temazcal

Fruit Trees, Veggie Gardens,

and Herbal Medicine

Avocado Trees

Harvest is twice a year, and all at once, so get ready for guacamole if you are here at the right time. Unripe fruits are always falling, so you’ll find the dogs eating them on the lawns most days.
Year-Round Farm Fresh Vegetable Harvest

Guests are welcomed and encouraged to harvest daily from the veggie gardens. We grow a diversity of salad greens and roughage, as well as sweet potatoes, chillies, onions, carrots, celery, tomatoes, and malanga. They are here for all of us feel nourished.
Herbal Medicine

We utilize the land by filling in most spaces with something medicinal or edible. We grow a wide variety of herbs, both native and non-native species, and harvest them fresh for use in the medicines we craft in our herbal apothecary.
Fruit Trees

Loquat, Lime, Orange, Fig, Pomegranate, Mulberry, Papaya, Guava, Dragonfruit, Zapote, Acerola Cherry, and the local favorite, Jocote. They are everywhere, and each have their own time of year for harvest, meaning perpetual yields, so pick and choose from what is ripe as you meander through the gardens.

Explore retreat options

When we first found the land that would become ours to steward, it was a rocky undulating coffee plantation. Years of discarded trash had formed sedimentary layers of plastic, and the soil was dry and thirsty from years of commercial pesticide use. In our mind’s eye, we envisioned a diverse permaculture landscape and food forest. So we set about implementing the systems that now shower us with abundant food and beauty all year-round. Today the soil is rich and teeming with microbes, fungal friends are sprouting all about, and we are greeted daily by chirping birds and buzzing bees. We are truly blessed.