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Our philosophy

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Our farm and reforestation play a central role at Tierra Madre: it is our main provider of fresh organic produce and satisfy your expectations of quality and your taste buds while also fitting perfectly in the nature surrounding it.

 We don't use any motorized  machinery for harvesting or transforming our produce. All our farming takes place without noises which could frighten the wildlife and without generating any greenhouse gases. We use traditional methods of cultivation. 

Conservation of the soil and groundwater is more important for us than profit.
We do not use any weed-killers or chemical fertilizers. We deal with pests and weeds by hand or with a machete.

 Properly-planned crop rotation, together with the use of natural fertilizers (most of which come from our farm animals) give our crops all the nutrients necessary for harmonious growth.

 All organic waste is composted, and the composting process is accelerated by earthworms to recycle it back into our fields and our gardens. ​In the same spirit, we are committed to protecting local products such as chasmol, malanga and gandul…
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After a few years of acclimation and fine-tuning of our agriculture systems in this challenging tropical environment, Tierra Madre is now orienting its productive activities towards a permaculture approach.

​Permaculture is a set of techniques aiming at building the long-term fertility and resilience of the productive environment by using only locally available and organic resources, without any tilling of the ground, machines, external input of any kind, and without generating waste.

This approach means also respecting the limits and constraints of the soil by substituting local and perennial crops to the annual crops  that are the norm worldwide, thereby expanding our culinary and nutritional horizon.

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