How to plant your tree:

1) Write a check ($35 for each tree) payable to Shambala Ecovillage LLC.

2) Send your check to Maggie Seeley, 2908 San Joaquin St. SE, Albuquerque NM 87106.

3) Send an email to info@ecovilacunha.org with:

• Your name and address
• The number and type of trees you want to plant (apple, avocado, caqui, kiwi, litchee, mulberry or peach)
• The name and email address of the person to whom you are dedicating the tree(s)

Ecovila Cunha and the planet thank you!

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About our reforestation and food security project

The forest at Ecovila Cunha

The Mata Atlântica (Atlantic rainforest) of Brazil is the most diverse ecosystem on Earth – there are more plant and animal species per hectare than anywhere else on the planet.

And after 500 years of deforestation, 94% of the Mata Atlântica is gone.

One of our members receiving donated native tree seedlings

While we are fortunate to live near national and state parks where the rainforest is protected, it’s vitally important to expand and connect the remnants of the forest that still exist outside the parks.

Two-thirds of our 90-acre property is currently forested, and we plan to keep it that way by establishing a private ecological reserve (Reserva Particular do Patrimônio Natural – RPPN). 

Home schooling with native tree seedlings

On the rest of our land, which was cleared for cattle decades ago, we’ve been planting native trees – araçá, ipê, jatobá, painera and other species – with financial support from the RainforestEcoBank in the USA and volunteer labor from participants in our Open House weekends at the ecovila.

Watch the AGAPE International Choir’s video about restoring the rainforest, featuring photos from Ecovila Cunha!

Volunteers planting trees during an Open House at Ecovila Cunha

This year, we’re reducing the size of the pear orchard on our property, removing old, damaged and unproductive pear trees and planting a variety of fruit and nut trees adapted to our coastal mountain climate. 

Then we’ll plant flowers, vegetables and forage crops throughout the orchard, and introduce chickens, ducks and bees in a permaculture design.

Thanks for your support!