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Natural Building, Farm to Table & Permaculture

Rancho Mastatal is an education center, working permaculture farm, ecolodge and community rooted in environmental sustainability, meaningful, place-based livelihoods, and caring relationships.

We offer profound, innovative and authentic apprenticeships, residential workshops and guest experiences. We practice, promote and teach about natural building, fermentation, permaculture design, renewable energy, agroforestry, wilderness medicine, homesteading in the tropics and more.

Our campus encompasses more than 300-acres of wildlife refuge with beautiful waterfalls, pristine rivers, idyllic swimming holes, impressive trees, extraordinary wilderness views, and intact habitat for the area's rich flora and fauna. Visitors and participants have access to over 10 kilometers of trails, an extensive library, our working permaculture farm, and the tireless team who make the Ranch such a unique place to learn.

We are located in the rural farming town of Mastatal, situated on the edge of the last remaining virgin rainforest of Costa Rica’s picturesque Puriscal County. It is a wonderful place to take in Costa Rica culture, practice your Spanish, visit other permaculture projects, or catch a pickup game of fútbol.

Come on out to pay us a visit and please don't hesitate to contact us with any questions or suggestions regarding our work.

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Acabamos de concluir nuestro curso de certificación en diseño de Permacultura en Inglés!

Disfrutamos bastante de una gran variedad de clases tanto teóricas como talleres prácticos y ejercicios de diseño sob

We raised our daughter “diaper free”.

Diapers reportedly make up 2%, or 4 tons per child, of waste in landfills.

With a practice called “elimination communication”, some mothers in the right situation have the option to tea

We are halfway through our April Permaculture Design Course 💚 it will never seace to surprise us how after a week of class our students are working on the design of a interconnected, self-reliant, integrated organism that we like to call a "Per

Managing alcohol consumption at the Ranch can be knotty.

We are a “wet” community. Beer, wine and spirits are permitted and even at times celebrated, especially when the product is fabricated in our own kitchen with local ingredients.

Rural life certainly has its advantages, and of course its challenges.

The strongest country towns are bound together by economy and healthy social structures. But even the happiest of rural dwellers sometimes yearn for a bit of what urban centers

We had a fun week learning about bamboo with @orquidea.ecodesign

We made many bamboo arches and everyone learnt a lot about bending bamboo which was one of the objectives of the workshop along with more fundamental skills like making fish mouths.

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Upcoming Workshops and Learning Opportunities

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Syntropic Agroforestry/Sistemas Agroforestales Sintrópicos

July 19 - 21, 2024/19 al 21 de Julio, 2024

This class is being taught in English and Spanish/Esta clase está dado en inglés como español.

Syntropic agroforestry is a great tool for land regeneration and food production.

La agricultura sintrópica es una gran herramienta para la regeneración de la tierra y la producción de alimentos.

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Put down a deposit ($150) Pagar su depósito ($150) Full payment Non-Central American ($500) Pago completo Centroamericano ($250)

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PERMACULTURE DESIGN CERTIFICATION COURSE

NOVEMBER 24 - DECEMBER 7, 2024

Join us for our annual, transformational 2-week class on permaculture design and get your PDC from the leading permaculture education center in Central America.

Payment Options:

Put Down A Deposit ($400) Full Payment ($1500) Pago Entero-Costarricense ($950)

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