Tierra Valiente (Brave Earth) is rooted on ancestral Maleku territory in the Arenal region of Costa Rica surrounded by tropical rainforest and the Chachagua River. We are a regenerative farm, mutual-aid network, and living place of practice for cultivating life-affirming futures rooted in relationship, responsibility, and care for the living Earth. Our Center for Cultural Transitions offers space for unlearning and learning at the intersection of the political, spiritual, and ecological. Micelia is our community-led mutual aid network and is committed to food sovereignty, ecological stewardship and community resilience in San Juan, Peñas Blancas, Costa Rica. We believe resilience grows through the soil of relationships, nurtured by solidarity, care, and collective action. Our non profit entity is Asociación Tierra Valiente Trust and is fiscally sponsored by Amigos De Costa Rica.
Project story
Round 2 deepens Tierra Valiente's evolution as a living laboratory for exploring how we can decommodify land, create biological corridors supporting wild movement, and reduce environmental threats while establishing healing arts practices that restore community and individual wellbeing.
The Living Lab and Healing Arts Community project explicitly centers the structural questions that emerged from Round 1 practice: how do we shift from land as commodity to land as trust-held commons? How do we create economic systems that prioritize life regeneration over extraction? What does it mean to embed healing at the center of environmental work?
Round 2 activities place land in trust through legal mechanisms that remove it from commodification, extend biological corridors that allow wildlife movement and gene flow, and integrate healing arts practices that support the restoration of people working in regeneration.
The healing arts dimension recognizes that the dominant culture's extraction of nature parallels its extraction of human emotional and spiritual resources. Practitioners at Tierra Valiente work with grief, rage, hope, and vision as integral parts of their regenerative practice.
Our Change
The impact assessment framework evolved to track both quantitative metrics including land secured for conservation and placed in trust, the expansion of biological corridors, and reduction of environmental threats like poaching, while also capturing qualitative indicators that measure shifts in consciousness, relationship to land, and capacity for visionary action. This multidimensional assessment recognizes that living labs are spaces for experimenting not just with agriculture and economics, but with culture and consciousness itself.
By combining land restoration with healing arts and mutual aid, Round 2 transforms Tierra Valiente into a regenerative center that models entire alternative systems rather than isolated practices, demonstrating pathways for other communities to follow. The healing arts approach acknowledges that transforming how we live requires addressing trauma, grief, and disconnection alongside the practical work of ecological restoration.
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Tierra Valiente’s Living Lab and Healing Arts Community
Tierra Valiente (Brave Earth) is rooted on ancestral Maleku territory in the Arenal region of Costa Rica surrounded by tropical rainforest and the Chachagua River. We are a regenerative farm, mutual-aid network, and living place of practice for cultivating life-affirming futures rooted in relationship, responsibility, and care for the living Earth. Our Center for Cultural Transitions offers space for unlearning and learning at the intersection of the political, spiritual, and ecological. Micelia is our community-led mutual aid network and is committed to food sovereignty, ecological stewardship and community resilience in San Juan, Peñas Blancas, Costa Rica. We believe resilience grows through the soil of relationships, nurtured by solidarity, care, and collective action. Our non profit entity is Asociación Tierra Valiente Trust and is fiscally sponsored by Amigos De Costa Rica.
Project story
Round 2 deepens Tierra Valiente's evolution as a living laboratory for exploring how we can decommodify land, create biological corridors supporting wild movement, and reduce environmental threats while establishing healing arts practices that restore community and individual wellbeing.
The Living Lab and Healing Arts Community project explicitly centers the structural questions that emerged from Round 1 practice: how do we shift from land as commodity to land as trust-held commons? How do we create economic systems that prioritize life regeneration over extraction? What does it mean to embed healing at the center of environmental work?
Round 2 activities place land in trust through legal mechanisms that remove it from commodification, extend biological corridors that allow wildlife movement and gene flow, and integrate healing arts practices that support the restoration of people working in regeneration.
The healing arts dimension recognizes that the dominant culture's extraction of nature parallels its extraction of human emotional and spiritual resources. Practitioners at Tierra Valiente work with grief, rage, hope, and vision as integral parts of their regenerative practice.
Our Change
The impact assessment framework evolved to track both quantitative metrics including land secured for conservation and placed in trust, the expansion of biological corridors, and reduction of environmental threats like poaching, while also capturing qualitative indicators that measure shifts in consciousness, relationship to land, and capacity for visionary action. This multidimensional assessment recognizes that living labs are spaces for experimenting not just with agriculture and economics, but with culture and consciousness itself.
By combining land restoration with healing arts and mutual aid, Round 2 transforms Tierra Valiente into a regenerative center that models entire alternative systems rather than isolated practices, demonstrating pathways for other communities to follow. The healing arts approach acknowledges that transforming how we live requires addressing trauma, grief, and disconnection alongside the practical work of ecological restoration.
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Team
$15,098.24
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$9.16
Location
Costa Rica
Round 2
Oct 23 - Nov 6, 2024
This round provided funding for regenerative land projects and was conducted on Gitcoin.
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