Gaia Grove Eco-Camp and Learning Center in Florida

Gaia Grove Eco-Camp and Learning Center

About

Permaculture, Sustainable Building & Farming, 

Co-Creation, Community Development & Support. 

Health & Wellness.

Offering products soon, including honey. 

Coming soon, a support and education network, 

and an eco-product buying club 

for sustainable and healthy living.

Mission

To learn through hands-on experiential methods 

and share information with each other 

on how to live more sustainably.

We are interested in growing & gathering 

as much food as we can, 

and building low cost, energy efficent, 

healthy homes such as our portable & recycled 

'Gaia View Portable Eco-Home' and off-grid natural homes 

such as cob, earthbag, cordwood, yurts, tree houses, 

shipping container homes and more. We are 

also interested in setting up cottage industries 

on the land to help sustain us.

Description

We are located on 91.9 Acres 

on the upper Santa Fe River in Bradford County, 

12 miles north of Gainesville, Florida, 

home of University of Florida.

We are inviting people to take a tour 

and participate in one or many

of our hands-on eco-living workshops. 

We have very low cost camp sites 

and natural home building sites for one or many nights.

Groups can also 

rent the facilities for their own events. 

We also have two Guest Houses, 

one 2 bedroom/2 bath furnished home 

on the Gaia Grove property 

and another 6/3 Home nearby with cozy fireplace, 

large kitchen, nicely,fully furnished bedroom, 

and handicap accessibility for short 

or long term stays as an alternative to camping.

We will be offering language immersion classes 

in English to speakers of other languages 

as well as in Spanish, Portuguese and Mandarin Chinese. 

We are now setting up language and 

permaculture learning programs 

at our affiiliated centers in Ecuador, Brazil and Taiwan.

We are just beginning the Gaia Global Institute 

where we will offer classes in workshops 

on such things as: 

Global Localization, 

Peace and Conflict Resolution, 

Fair Trade vs Free Trade, 

Global Environmental Issues, 

Community and Economic Development 

as well as Foreign Language and Permaculture Design.

For more info, please check the website: 

http://gaiagrove.webs.com/

ARC 38 in Wassaic NY

Arc38 is a living experiment in authentic culture, 

situated on 188 acres of wetland and forest in Wassaic, NY. 

We strive to actualize human potential, 

by creating an incubator 

for the best ideas ready to take form, right now.

MISSION STATEMENT

Arc 38 is a community of people who strive to facilitate, educate 

and uplift the populus by means of sustainable permaculture, 

spiritual diversity and values of unifying inclusivity.

The Goals of Arc 38

The Goal of the Arc 38 Core Group is simplistic in it’s complexity 

and is vastly encompassing of many ideals. 

One of our most high goals is to ease and assist 

in the unification of diverse social cultures. 

We conclude that 

our main goals must emulate missions 

which are inclusive of all people 

while still being definitive enough 

to provide a general direction. 

This direction will be developed through and for projects 

which may assist in the lasting creation 

of such a diverse atmosphere, 

prioritizing the needs of the whole 

over the wants of individuals, 

thus the following will outline 

what the projects at Arc 38 are representative of.

We seek to create an abundant and sustainable world 

by becoming the proper example and epitomization 

of what that may mean. 

By using diverse methods of permaculture, 

we are able to encourage 

a more conscious use of our resources. 

We serve to promote the preservation and facilitation 

of life giving, tangible resources such as potable water, 

clean air, abundance of nutritious foods, 

renewable energies and more. 

We collectively share the belief that 

resources such as these 

are that which is too precious to take for granted, 

that all should have access to those resources 

which provide life.

The land upon which Arc 38 is situated 

is home to natural marsh and wooded environments 

with diverse species of microbial, insect, plant and animal life. 

Stewardship of these lands is very important to us, 

protecting and caring for these natural wonders are of top priority. 

Biodiversity may flourish through intelligent forestry management, 

taking great care not to choke the ever flowing 

forces of nature yet instead to work in harmony.

It is only through the pursuit of these ends 

that we gain the ability and time to practice 

a more positive atmosphere of equality, acceptance, 

and coexistence for all people. 

By removing the fear and grip of scarcity 

we are more capable of providing a peaceful existence, 

a non-discriminative sanctuary where people of diverse social, 

economic and spiritual cultures may congregate without fear of judgement. 

We look forward to the evolution of human consciousness as a whole 

and strive to become a great cultural center.

Monetary sustainability will ensure our survival and success 

in the current outer paradigm, giving us the opportunity to 

improve our services and provide better outreach. 

Through the main goals of Arc 38 a myriad of services 

may generate monetary funding that may both be used to uplift Arc 38,

it's individual projects and those in the pursuit of similar goals. 

We also hope to help bring economic flow for the local community 

outside of our miniature community, 

doing our best to live in harmony with all around us.

Lastly, by inviting the public to become apprentices 

and stewards of our projects we hope to provide the ability 

for people to learn with hands on experience. 

Educating people on how they may implement similar projects, 

anywhere in the world, is what will truly create 

the change in the world that we wish to see. 

For though we may all be individuals who are responsible for ourselves 

there is no limit to what we can accomplish by uplifting one another. 

Together we will change the world.

For more info, check the website at http://arc38.org/