Esperanza  (means hope)

Can you imagine co-creating a "live-in Botanical Garden", where you can pick your own breakfast? Would you like to live in a climate and at an elevation where you do not need heating, nor air conditioning? Would you like to live in a country with NO snow, NO army, and almost NO taxes? Costa Rica is this paradise found and Londres de Quepos offers a “small town” feel. Here you can walk to the local “Mini Super” for groceries, 2 restaurants, or the “Bazzar” to send a fax while shopping for things found in a 5 and dime from another era. Think of it as Mayberry south.

The intention is to transform an organic fruit and spice farm, into a sustainable Eco-Village with lush tropical gardens and 500 feet of creek frontage. Londres is cooler, and greener than Quepos Costa Rica with Rio Naranjo across the street.  Londres is the gateway to the rain forest, offering regular bus service, phone, 128K Internet and mountain spring water. Let's manifest an environmentally sound community where we all know our neighbors, and share a sense of spiritual community as well. Here you will have opportunity to co-create a sustainable community. Can you envision a bio-digester, local composting, recycling, and water cascading into a tilapia pond and a Butterfly garden as well?

The community house has 6 bedroom, 3 bathrooms and 2 kitchens. From Christmas to Easter you may rent a room with meals and laundry service on a monthly basis. See if living in community is for you. Can adjust to living "outside the box?" May thru November there are volunteer opportunities, at a discounted rate. Currently we are looking for a wood owrker and others interested in building with bamboo from the finca. It's about living, learning and growing together.

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Can you envision a longevity education center, where all the members are actively involved in the community? With 6 buses a day to Quepos; Why own, maintain and repair 20 cars? Why not invest in one community van?

The beauty of Esperanza de Finca Amanecer is the farm. Simply walk down the main "sendero" (path) and experience the grandeur of the towering hardwood trees. You'll delight in the organic spices: vanilla, ginger, cinnamon, allspice, turmeric and cardamom, and tropical fruits: pineapples, mangos, avocado, oranges, bananas and then there are the flowers! If you arrive in the afternoon you'll be seduced by Llang Llang, el Lirio or night Blooming Jasmine. Here you can walk through a forest of ornamental Ginger and heliconias too numerous to count.

The Sanctuary is designed to protect and preserve the 50 feet corridor along the 500 feet of creek frontage.  Kids Saving the Rainforest have joined our efforts in reforesting the Sanctuary corridor along the creek with trees to attract and feed the Scarlet Macaws and the Mono Titi monkeys. A large cattle ranch on the western boarder of the project adds color and character to the tranquility of this rural agricultural property.

Won't you be my neighbor?

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