At Fruit Haven Ecovillage, we are creating a sustainable eco-village and a functioning permaculture fruit farm. We hope to inspire local farmers to see fruit production as a profitable endeavor; an alternative to deforestation and cattle grazing.

Our community values are important to our unity and success:

• A strong work ethic: Responsible care-taking of the land to maintain and increase production of fruits and vegetables
• Permaculture methods of farming
• Consuming raw, unfractionated, unprocessed foods
• Abstinence from addictive mind-altering substances such as alcohol and other drugs
• Maintaining spiritual health through meditation and yoga
• Not harming/domesticating other animals or exploiting them for our gain
• Maintaining a de-centralized, non-hierarchical structure in the community

Located in the foothills of the Andes on the edge of the Amazon rainforest in Ecuador, the tropical climate is ideal for durian, marang, rollinia, mamey sapote, jackfruit, papaya, and much more. The farm already produces bananas, rollinia, plantains, papayas, pineapples, abiu, sugarcane, oranges, peanut butter fruit, local/wild fruits, and many tropical perennial vegetables such as katuk and malabar spinach.