Puerto Vallarta, Mexico - Among the many community oriented projects around the bay, San Pancho's Community Garden, El Jardin de Guadalupe, is one of the most child friendly.

El Jardin de Guadalupe is an experiment in community gardening, using the Biodynamic French-intensive method pioneered by Alan Chadwick, a close student of Rudolph Steiner, the famed Austrian philosopher and educator, founder of the Waldorf school. The project is located in San Pancho (a.k.a. San Francisco, Nayarit, Mexico.)

In times of uncertainty about the sustainability of our world and the quality of our food, many people are turning to urban farming for many more reasons than having fresh vegetables on their dinner table.

The countless dimensions of gardening have a way to touch one’s heart that nurtures a whole transformation of the human being. Watching plant life closely and participating in its cycles bring one in touch with the magical and precious dimensions of life. The close proximity to all insect and bird life in the garden is a treat to the child inside anyone.

In a community like San Pancho, which prides itself in its schools, art, consciousness, recycling, bird sanctuary and more, community gardening is a logical and natural layer in the fabric of a sustainable community. The project sponsors, entreAmigos and Alianza Jaguar are the perfect hosts and friends for this community garden project.

Making gardening an intrinsic part of a child’s education can only foster a more sensitive and nurturing human being, and society. Sharing the knowledge and bounty with the local population, is a proven way to build a healthy community.

We welcome volunteers of all ages, and donations of any size, including tools, hoses, seeds, trucks and wheelbarrows.

Be sure and check out their website to see what interesting new projects are scheduled.

"One of the most important resources that a garden makes available for use, is the gardener's own body. A garden gives the body the dignity of working in its own support. It is a way of rejoining the human race." - Wendell Berry

"We are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us, binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars." - Alan Chadwick