Puerto Jiménez, Osa Peninsula - Costa Rica
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Regenerative Actions Happening Now in Puerto Jiménez, Osa Peninsula - Costa Rica
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18 Materials / equipment deployed • Materials / equipment deployed • Partnerships activated • Material Capital • 250 Budget spent (USD) • 7 Materials / equipment deployed • 1 Community meetings • 2 Events or campaigns run • 30 People reached / served • 30 relationships formed • 50 gifts mapped • Cultural Capital: shared stories & intercultural learning • Spiritual Capital: greater coherence among people in the nucleo • Community wellbeing • Field days / restoration days • seguridad • sobrevivencia • confianza • autoestima • fortalecimiento de vinculos • disciplina • da una herramienta de emprender y lograr ingresos • crea comunidad donde se hace alianza entre emprendedores para apoyar sus finanzas • y momentos de recreación • 12+ community meetings held • 20+ local participants engaged • Shared notes, visual maps, and collective narratives produced enriched with photo documentation of the meetings • Increased community understanding of commons-based land stewardship • Strengthened trust and collaboration among participants • Emergence of new leadership and stewardship roles • Greater clarity around long-term vision and shared responsibility • Strengthened local food systems and regenerative livelihoods Increased community resilience through by decentralizing governance and care for the space, people and projects. • A narrative for the our model of 'grassroots impact through the mycelium' which can inspire other bioregional initiatives • una ruta más limpia para locales y visitantes • Menos contaminación visual a lo largo de la ruta. • Menos obstáculos en la vía de los animales que cruzan la calle. • Comunidades limpias y libres de contaminación. • un lugar más bonito para los niños y niñas • Educación ambiental, cultural y natural para el pueblo a través del mural. • una zona más verde y floreada. • One site made very welcoming in support of the Saturday market that we have hosted for years. • Two massive higueron trees trimmed so that they don't ruin the built structures here • 16 friends came together for a shared purpose and to break bread. Our community is increasingly cohesive and growing. • Personally, I learned how to opperate a chainsaw safetly while in a tree, on a ladder, or on a rooftop. I also leaned how to deal with a disturbed nest of wasps (that fortunately weren't terribly aggressive). • To begin to surface agency and responsibility among residents of Matapalo community for waste management • 1 single mother emotionally supported • 1 new baby prayed for and welcomed into the community • 22 people coming together to share love and celebrate life • 100% meaningful • Love and connections are moving forward from that night • 28 bellies filled • 25 people had a sense of home for the holidays • 3 people in the neighbor hood received food at their door • un lugar más bonito para los niños y niñas • Educación ambiental, cultural y natural para el pueblo a través del mural. • una zona más verde y floreada. • Helped a subsistence based neighbor increase her household economy • Flowed, natural, experiential, social, cultural and material capital which allowed for their leverage into financial, social, cultural and spiritual capital. • Once repaired, we'll continue to be able to maintain our gardens throughout the dry season with ZERO reliance on municipal water. • Environmental condition improvement: The tank, when functioning, holds approx. 1000 gallons of water. Because we are not willing to use treated city water to maintain our on-site garden (both for reasons of principle and economics), and because it hasn't yet rained since the last concrete work was completed, I can't yet report on the outcome. What I can say is that we're maintaining the most sensitive plants in the garden beds, but others are simply doing without as of this update (March 3, 2026). Maybe it will rain today! Or, soon.... To be continued. • 10 people learned macrame • 50+ people enjoyed the Christmas dance performance • 14 Local kids gained confidence by dancing ballet • 10+ people learned to make flutes from bamboo • 8 people learned to manifest their reality through vision boards • 15 people learned about composting • Reduced our landfill contribution by at least 70% through a mix of repurposing and recycling • Was able to flow various items of use to different low resourced families with materials for use in their households • Demonstrated upcycling and exchange principles weekly at our farmer’s markets • Demonstrated to resourced clients of the market, how we can help them to flow things of value out into the community • 1 recycling workshop planned for October 2025. • A simple on-site waste separation system established (organic, recyclable, non-recyclable). • Promotion and distribution of reusable market bags within the community. • Waste reduction practices embedded into events and daily activities on-site. • visitors, members and in-person stakeholders gained practical knowledge of how to separate waste and reduce non-organic materials at the source. • Increased commitment to minimizing non-organic waste during on-site activities and events. • Strengthening of a culture of circularity in the Osa Peninsula, where waste is reframed as a resource. • A replicable community-led model for waste reduction and recycling in rural areas with limited municipal support. • Reduction of plastic pollution and pressure on local waste management systems. • A living example of how grassroots hubs can inspire systemic shifts toward circular economy practices in bioregions. • A functioning community hub with 15+ active local members, supported by 100+ visitors and digital stewards. • 1 draft membership model created through multiple brainstorming sessions and meetings. • 1 infodeck developed to communicate the vision and invite funders. • Exploration of governance technologies, resulting in a hybrid model proposal. • core members have deepened their understanding of commons-based ownership and collective stewardship. • Breakthrough idea: combining tokenized shares with a commitment pool for governance, showing participants that preserving traditions and culture can weave with innovative solutions • A replicable model for transitioning private land into community-stewarded commons in Costa Rica and beyond. • Strengthened resilience of the Osa community by protecting cultural practices, food systems, and ecological stewardship. • A living example of how emergent strategy can lead to systemic innovations that balance land, people, and more-than-human life. • 18 - Roof leaks repaired • 154 - Feet of gutter cleaned • 3 - Toilets repaired with new or salvaged parts • 300 - Dollars distributed (spent) to local ferreterías (hardware stores) • 43% larger smiles upon visiting • 1 cubic meter of rich compost in the making • 2 garden spaces beautified and maintained • Okay, some of these numbers are estimates (and one of them is a little silly), but there’s more being done here, continually, than meets the eye or this report! • impacto ambiental • enseñanza e inspiracion • promover valores de solidaridad y cooperación • respeto, amor y valor por los lugares públicos • ejemplo a los mienbros dela comunidad • regalo seis masajes para personas miembros de la comunicad • regalo tres conciertos de música en eventos dentro de la comunidad • soy de acompañamiento para escuchar y sostener a miembro de la comunidad en su procesos (varios) • 18 participants, most of which are involved in permaculture or other agricultural methods, learned from experience how to improve production with various organic methods • Estimated 1/2 acre of banana and plantain crops improved to maximize yield. • 20% Increased participation at local farmers market from farmers who received support via Manos Cambiadas • 1greenhouse cleaned and repaired to improve crop production on an organic farm • 14 participants (including the owner of the focus farm) received plant starts of proven varieties of tomatoes, bananas, herbs, root crops.... • 8 signs painted to promote the Mercado Verde • 4 murals painted by local students to make the place more beautiful • 3 classrooms improved by replacing window screens • 12 meals provided to the volunteers • Over 30 community members joined in work parties this quarter, showing their love and gratitude for the space • Community bonds growing stronger by the day • 1 neighbourhood agreement co-created and installed among ~10 people. • Process involved ~100 messages, 1 meeting, and ~15 hours of administrative time (after 1 year of envisioning by a few neighbourhood members) • Shared story and practical model for neighbourhood-led ecological agreements. • High tide trail extended and cleared by 20-70 meters through ~2 hours of maintenance in the last quarter. • Noticeably more silence in the neighbourhood: reduced machine sounds, leading to more peaceful days and nights. • More open, collaborative communication among residents, including respectful scheduling of construction projects and mechanized maintenance. • Protection of public beach access for locals by maintaining and expanding high tide trails—directly balancing the pressures of privatization in the Osa. • Healthier nervous systems for humans and greater ease for wildlife, creating an environment of peace and natural harmony. • Contribution to a broader cultural shift away from extractive, unsustainable development toward collective stewardship of place. • Leveraged the intellectual, experiential, material and social capital of the co-sponsors of this initiative towards community incubation into the web3, blockchain, crypto space. • Added 5 new Bloom members to our local Bloom ….more than doubling our membership….all of whom are active members of the local community. • Built on already existent activites thus reducing the expenditure on the part of organizers • Catalyzed the active launching of our local Bloom chapter • Provided peer support among 8 community members to onboard onto Bloom and coordinate impact reports. • Facilitated bi-weekly meetings among market vendors • Leveraged capacitación offers from a local university to grow our impact • 18 members of our Mercado verde family invited into co-imagining and sensemaking using participatory frameworks like sociocracy • Positive message about nature for children • Color and life for the entrance of this town • Plants that brings butterflies and birds around • Received and distributed multiple bags of donated material goods (mostly clothes) and continuously upcycled otherwise unusable products. • Provided opportunities for clothes to go to families who need them and for attendees to engage in repair and renewal of otherwise discarded items. • Helped to surface and celebrate the beauty of “trash” and increased their lifespan. • Maintain a reuse product packaging space so small scale producers have access to reused and reuseable packaging. • Increased fertility in our gardens at the Coop and provided replicable examples • Diverted various waste streams including sewage, water, paper goods, termite infested wood, and coconut shells • Impacted the education of 4 people on a daily basis and 30+ people on a weekly basis in regards to waste disposal • Created a container for 4 long-term collaborators in the Brunca region of Costa Rica to come together and stregnthen their ties and collective sense-making • Flowed material capital (vehicle, chairs, tables, tent, site) to organizers of two important Bioregional events • Hosted 28 rural women for 2 nights at Los Higuerones • Created a process to allow neighboring Blooms to begin to flow our token FLOwers into the ecosystem • 10+ people participated in each activity • People learned new skills and had fun • Market attendance has benefited by people coming or staying longer for the activities • Increased community support and a sense of unity • I’ve had the opportunity to get to know the community members on a more personal level and learn what their gifts are • All ages and cultures coming together in one space to learn and create • Mejora de calidad de vida • Mejora de calidad de vida • Solidaridad • Accion • Trabajo en equipo • Conexión y Proposito • colaboracion colectiva 11 presentes • mejora de calidad de vida; para tres miembros mayores de la casa de acción de (manos cambiadas). accionando en la mejora de salud, higiene y comodidad diaria • solidaridad en acción; fortaleciendo lazos sociales • energía positiva • trabajo en equipo, 11 personas presentes generando un ambiente de alegría, buena cooperación, buena energía, generando valores como: respeto, empatía, organización y escucha activa • inspiración: generando inspiracion a que otras personas participen en las distintas actividades de manos cambiadas que se realizaran, creando una cadena de bondad y acción colectiva • 12 people helped with labor and design • Many gallons of water have been stored and used • We lowered the water bill. • The garden now receives water free of chemicals • The tank is also a bench for sitting • The tank replaced a rotten deck, creating a new space with purpose • A national meeting with Costa Ricans interested and knowledgeable in the topic • Connection with various international legal entities with expertise in establishing the Rights of Nature for different places over the world • Greater clarity about the process and resource needs • Becoming part of a greater collective that strives towards Rights of Nature for different places in Costa Rica. • Mapped the gifts and talents of 100+ people through different activities • The emergence of stronger collaboration between certain impact initiatives/ organisations in the area • An asset map for the region divided in different themes • Greater clarity about how Los Higuerones is perceived by its members • Centralisation and consolidation of the previous maps made by other research groups • 25+ people learned about medicinal plants and healthy eating habits. • 25+ people learned about some of the history of Puerto Jiménez. • An 18 year old from the community interviewed a 60+ year old from the community, • The talks promoted the farmers products and gave a backstory to who they are and what they stand for. • The speakers gained self confidence by speaking in front of a crowd. • Engaged in bimonthly organizing meetings among farmers market vendors to encourage greater agency and ownership over organizing • Having a regular rhythm for joining together as a community allows for ideas and plans to surface, be expressed and potentially be executed on. • - By engaging in loosely structured meeting spaces, those with little familiarity with these types of structures build their capacity to engage. • Engaged 28 school kids in drawing out of portrait of gifts for an asset mappping process • Guided children of the community through a visioning process of what is important to them and why. • Ensured those who represent the future of the Osa have their voices included in understanding its present. • Showed how education can take place through its building as well • Increased biodiversity on the streets by planting trees • Enhanced connection of people in the pueblo to the school • Strengthen connection between 20+people • Mapped over 30 agroecolgy initiatives on the Osa • Exchanged over 50 varieties of local seeds and plants ensuring their continuation. • Heard from 10+ speakers sharing the importance of agroecological practices in our region. • Educated 6 “regenerative influencers” on the obstacles and opportunities facing local farm families • Shared information about common plants in the garden and their medicinal and/or culinary uses • Provided a meaningful opportunity for newcomers into the area to dialogue with and get to know an important local weaver • Directed 80% of our retreat’s fresh food sourcing to local providers. • Increased the family economies of at least 3 households in significant ways • Provided 24 r3treat participants with the esperiencial story of where their food comes from • 30 people sang, danced and played instruments. • Local farmers and foreigners shared songs and jammed together. • The music uplifted the spirits of the people at the market. • New friendships were formed. • People cheered and supported eachother. • Preservation of indigenous/ ancient/ traditional / vital knowledge/ practices • organised 15+ activities • growing of the client base and solidarity among producers and visitors/ clients • Greater cohesion and appreciation among local producers of the market • By documenting the processes and practices employed in working with local ingredients, we help to demystify their usage and • Educated 10+ people about local crops, their growth patterns and culinary and medicinal usage • The Majority of the support team has now time to focus more on connecting with visitors • The majority of the support team has the space now to focus on meet and weave collaborations with people from local organisations that work on regenerating the region • We can now log how many local producers we support beyond the producers who are physically present during the market • We can better restock the inventory, because we know how much we sell of each product over time. • 5 children painted pictures and presented them to the farmers market audience. • They received applause for their work and were seen by the community. • This gives them more confidence to create and share. • This activity also encouraged families to stay at the market longer resulting in more connections, conversations and sales. • This activity helped form the foundational structure for bringing more classes and activites into the space. • greater involvement of producers and visitors in taking up activities/ tasks during /for the market • More time made available for selling and connection due to a digitized sales/ pay out system. • Greater clarity of inventory • The organising team can focus more on organising activities and engaging visitors • inspired many others how to create outfits yourself • learn how to crochet own clothes • keep traditional practices alive • more sovereignty and sustainable practices among participants • promote the sustainable fashion movement • more sense of rythm, motores, more connection to the body among participants • educating 6 students in sustainable living • Guiding students in learning how to transform scientific research results in usable on-the-ground outcomes • 4+ field trips to local initiatives/ farms to connect with locals • expansion of students perspective on healthy, wholesome living • collaboration with the University of Michigan to support our work regionally • clarity about the financial and collaborative structure • a team of 3 on-site people established with support from UCI • Convened a series of meetings to reactivate community collaboration • Engaged in numerous one-on-one conversations to discuss blockage to and oppo4tunities for greater harmonizing of groups • Developed a framework to promote and develop community governance/decion-making and funding • - organizing towards a september in-person convergence of 30+ leaders from the diverse communities to strategize a bioregional regeneration strategy map and assess common risks and opportunities • greater coherence among the bioregions part of the Brunca region • providing a model for the rest of Costa Rica in regional organising and coordination • strengthened collaboration among regional female leaders • - took part in an international learning journey of The Biofi Project and exchanges knowledge and experience with a group of 80+ international community builders, weavers and regenerative project stewards • - took part in an international learning journey of The Biofi Project and exchanges knowledge and experience with a group of 30+ international community builders, weavers and regenerative project stewards • deeper coalescence and with national bioregional projects, learning form each other by recognizing the different strategies, and the value of the diversity. • greater coherence among local people • enrichment of culture and social value • 10 members established • more structure that invites the diversity of people living in the Osa and look for connection and collaboration • Learned how to translate the idea of the bioregional financing facility into a comprehensive story and slideshow • Educated over 50+ people in how we envision this project to take place in the bioregion • The surfacing of a comprehensive story to take forward in organising our local community/ organisational allies • Clarity about the next steps in the emergent process of the Bioregional Financing Facility. • Created a 3rd series of Verdes to support cultural offerings at our weekly market • Supported 5 cultural creatives directly and 6+ market participants indirectly with Verdes • Allowed for 60,000 colones of Verdes to flow into the farmers market • Witnessed a number of recipients of the Verdes flowing them on to other collaborators at the market • Transformed coconut shells into a highly effective Biochar amendment for gardens • Produced 14 sacks of activated charcoal used to enrich the diverse soil types in our region. • Educated 20+ people on what biochar is, how it can help with soil fertility and how togo about doing it. • Represented our local bioregion in its first cohort of bioregion to create financing facilities • Attended and participated in weekly cultivator meetings to help develop and strengthen our Bioregional regeneration strategy • Between weekly sessions….engaged in advancing a framework for greater Bioregional coherence and connection • Capacítated 4 Mercado verde collaborators to more fully support the space that they use regularly • Created reciprocal relationships between active users of los higuerones and the site that is supporting their usage. • Facilitated a sense of achievement and pride in contribution among 2 market participants that had otherwise been passive users. • Hosted and co-organized 13 weekly farmer’s markets • Provided 20+ local farmers and artisans with opportunities to augment their household income • Continued to provide meaningful opportunities for consumers and producers to connect • Continued to create and host a “town square” space for people to come together • Provided tourists to the area an opportunity to engage with the local culture and people of the Osa • Brought together 32 participants from diverse communities on the Osa for a mixer dinner. • Bridged social capital between new investors in area and long term campesino leaders to generate greater understanding and connection. • Created an event where all participants felt uplifted, valued and connected. • educated 32 participants on the benefits of plant-based eating through a culinary sensory journey • Educated 16 people regarding traditional fibersheads of the Ngabe people. • Enhanced the cultural offerings available at our local Mercado Verde (weekly farmer's market). • Expanded out the flow of our market's Verdes (complementary currency) towards reciprocity to those offering enhanced programming at our mkt • Assisted 12 farmers with projects on their land that required more labor than what they had available • Provided skills and knowledge enhancement of the 28+ people who participated. • Continued to strengthen the mutual aid network we have developed in our community • Nurtured continued skill and knowledge sharing between participating farms • Through potluck lunches…expanded the culinary experiences of all participating ethnicities • Began the circulation of our market’s circular and complementary currency • Began circulating a $800 backed first edition of vouchers into our area’s farmers market • Provided up to 10,000 colones worth of reciprocity for each volunteer in our manos cambiadas program for material support provided by them • Engaged in action research around the use and multiplication of our complimentary currency’s activity. • Celebrated an agroecological culture for the Osa Peninsula • Educated 60+ people on the theme of agroecology and how it is being practiced in the Osa • Provided 10+ agroecological practitioners a platform/audience for sharing their agroecological success stories • Influenced the new mayor for the bioregion to think agroecological ly • Engaged 40+ community leaders from varios sectors in joining together and imagining into a collective future Osa • Helped break down silos between and among diverse sectors within our community. • Built upon a prior community encuentra and produced a collectively developed artifact for moving forward • Reduced the amount of new packaging being used by producers for the Mercado Verde • Reduced the number of jars, bottles, and plastic containers going to recycling center by deploying them for reuse. • Educated producers and consumers of the Mercado Verde on reducing and reusing in place of recycling • Provided an easily accessible way for people in our community to make a positive difference. • Helped foster greater connectivity between producers and consumers of Mercado verde • 30 people present at the screening received a deeper level of understanding about the life path of a local regenerative leader • an understanding of the impacts of displacing people from their homes in the name of conservation was expanded • Knowledge based on a self-sufficient life in the jungle was able to be shared with participants • Relationships among and between various ngo, institutional and community based groups were strengthened • Los Higuerones was able to further its mission as a Bioregional learning center • 5 hosts from the metropolitan area were able to be educated on how to offer a waste free event • Engaged 2 people in real time and others asynchronistically in a multi-capital framework of value • Synthesized a 2+ year journey in multi-capital exploration into a workshop • Engaging a multi-capital framework provides an opportunity to surface the contributions outside of the financial realm • Raised awareness of 30+ people on the environmental “luchas” of this bioregion. • Provided a platform for 3 campesino elders in the community to share the history • Created a public space to support the transmission of the need to act in service to our natural environment • Created a cross-cultural and inter generational container for co-commitment to protect the golfo Dulce • Educated 30 people in making tinctures and other herbal remedies • 24 markets, connecting 50+ people each market • provided over 50% of a households income to the majority of participating vendors • two cooking competitions that created innovative dishes with market produce • distributed $1000+ in produce with the season of solidarity where local customers donate money for market produce to locals in need. 18 Materials / equipment deployed • Materials / equipment deployed • Partnerships activated • Material Capital • 250 Budget spent (USD) • 7 Materials / equipment deployed • 1 Community meetings • 2 Events or campaigns run • 30 People reached / served • 30 relationships formed • 50 gifts mapped • Cultural Capital: shared stories & intercultural learning • Spiritual Capital: greater coherence among people in the nucleo • Community wellbeing • Field days / restoration days • seguridad • sobrevivencia • confianza • autoestima • fortalecimiento de vinculos • disciplina • da una herramienta de emprender y lograr ingresos • crea comunidad donde se hace alianza entre emprendedores para apoyar sus finanzas • y momentos de recreación • 12+ community meetings held • 20+ local participants engaged • Shared notes, visual maps, and collective narratives produced enriched with photo documentation of the meetings • Increased community understanding of commons-based land stewardship • Strengthened trust and collaboration among participants • Emergence of new leadership and stewardship roles • Greater clarity around long-term vision and shared responsibility • Strengthened local food systems and regenerative livelihoods Increased community resilience through by decentralizing governance and care for the space, people and projects. • A narrative for the our model of 'grassroots impact through the mycelium' which can inspire other bioregional initiatives • una ruta más limpia para locales y visitantes • Menos contaminación visual a lo largo de la ruta. • Menos obstáculos en la vía de los animales que cruzan la calle. • Comunidades limpias y libres de contaminación. • un lugar más bonito para los niños y niñas • Educación ambiental, cultural y natural para el pueblo a través del mural. • una zona más verde y floreada. • One site made very welcoming in support of the Saturday market that we have hosted for years. • Two massive higueron trees trimmed so that they don't ruin the built structures here • 16 friends came together for a shared purpose and to break bread. Our community is increasingly cohesive and growing. • Personally, I learned how to opperate a chainsaw safetly while in a tree, on a ladder, or on a rooftop. I also leaned how to deal with a disturbed nest of wasps (that fortunately weren't terribly aggressive). • To begin to surface agency and responsibility among residents of Matapalo community for waste management • 1 single mother emotionally supported • 1 new baby prayed for and welcomed into the community • 22 people coming together to share love and celebrate life • 100% meaningful • Love and connections are moving forward from that night • 28 bellies filled • 25 people had a sense of home for the holidays • 3 people in the neighbor hood received food at their door • un lugar más bonito para los niños y niñas • Educación ambiental, cultural y natural para el pueblo a través del mural. • una zona más verde y floreada. • Helped a subsistence based neighbor increase her household economy • Flowed, natural, experiential, social, cultural and material capital which allowed for their leverage into financial, social, cultural and spiritual capital. • Once repaired, we'll continue to be able to maintain our gardens throughout the dry season with ZERO reliance on municipal water. • Environmental condition improvement: The tank, when functioning, holds approx. 1000 gallons of water. Because we are not willing to use treated city water to maintain our on-site garden (both for reasons of principle and economics), and because it hasn't yet rained since the last concrete work was completed, I can't yet report on the outcome. What I can say is that we're maintaining the most sensitive plants in the garden beds, but others are simply doing without as of this update (March 3, 2026). Maybe it will rain today! Or, soon.... To be continued. • 10 people learned macrame • 50+ people enjoyed the Christmas dance performance • 14 Local kids gained confidence by dancing ballet • 10+ people learned to make flutes from bamboo • 8 people learned to manifest their reality through vision boards • 15 people learned about composting • Reduced our landfill contribution by at least 70% through a mix of repurposing and recycling • Was able to flow various items of use to different low resourced families with materials for use in their households • Demonstrated upcycling and exchange principles weekly at our farmer’s markets • Demonstrated to resourced clients of the market, how we can help them to flow things of value out into the community • 1 recycling workshop planned for October 2025. • A simple on-site waste separation system established (organic, recyclable, non-recyclable). • Promotion and distribution of reusable market bags within the community. • Waste reduction practices embedded into events and daily activities on-site. • visitors, members and in-person stakeholders gained practical knowledge of how to separate waste and reduce non-organic materials at the source. • Increased commitment to minimizing non-organic waste during on-site activities and events. • Strengthening of a culture of circularity in the Osa Peninsula, where waste is reframed as a resource. • A replicable community-led model for waste reduction and recycling in rural areas with limited municipal support. • Reduction of plastic pollution and pressure on local waste management systems. • A living example of how grassroots hubs can inspire systemic shifts toward circular economy practices in bioregions. • A functioning community hub with 15+ active local members, supported by 100+ visitors and digital stewards. • 1 draft membership model created through multiple brainstorming sessions and meetings. • 1 infodeck developed to communicate the vision and invite funders. • Exploration of governance technologies, resulting in a hybrid model proposal. • core members have deepened their understanding of commons-based ownership and collective stewardship. • Breakthrough idea: combining tokenized shares with a commitment pool for governance, showing participants that preserving traditions and culture can weave with innovative solutions • A replicable model for transitioning private land into community-stewarded commons in Costa Rica and beyond. • Strengthened resilience of the Osa community by protecting cultural practices, food systems, and ecological stewardship. • A living example of how emergent strategy can lead to systemic innovations that balance land, people, and more-than-human life. • 18 - Roof leaks repaired • 154 - Feet of gutter cleaned • 3 - Toilets repaired with new or salvaged parts • 300 - Dollars distributed (spent) to local ferreterías (hardware stores) • 43% larger smiles upon visiting • 1 cubic meter of rich compost in the making • 2 garden spaces beautified and maintained • Okay, some of these numbers are estimates (and one of them is a little silly), but there’s more being done here, continually, than meets the eye or this report! • impacto ambiental • enseñanza e inspiracion • promover valores de solidaridad y cooperación • respeto, amor y valor por los lugares públicos • ejemplo a los mienbros dela comunidad • regalo seis masajes para personas miembros de la comunicad • regalo tres conciertos de música en eventos dentro de la comunidad • soy de acompañamiento para escuchar y sostener a miembro de la comunidad en su procesos (varios) • 18 participants, most of which are involved in permaculture or other agricultural methods, learned from experience how to improve production with various organic methods • Estimated 1/2 acre of banana and plantain crops improved to maximize yield. • 20% Increased participation at local farmers market from farmers who received support via Manos Cambiadas • 1greenhouse cleaned and repaired to improve crop production on an organic farm • 14 participants (including the owner of the focus farm) received plant starts of proven varieties of tomatoes, bananas, herbs, root crops.... • 8 signs painted to promote the Mercado Verde • 4 murals painted by local students to make the place more beautiful • 3 classrooms improved by replacing window screens • 12 meals provided to the volunteers • Over 30 community members joined in work parties this quarter, showing their love and gratitude for the space • Community bonds growing stronger by the day • 1 neighbourhood agreement co-created and installed among ~10 people. • Process involved ~100 messages, 1 meeting, and ~15 hours of administrative time (after 1 year of envisioning by a few neighbourhood members) • Shared story and practical model for neighbourhood-led ecological agreements. • High tide trail extended and cleared by 20-70 meters through ~2 hours of maintenance in the last quarter. • Noticeably more silence in the neighbourhood: reduced machine sounds, leading to more peaceful days and nights. • More open, collaborative communication among residents, including respectful scheduling of construction projects and mechanized maintenance. • Protection of public beach access for locals by maintaining and expanding high tide trails—directly balancing the pressures of privatization in the Osa. • Healthier nervous systems for humans and greater ease for wildlife, creating an environment of peace and natural harmony. • Contribution to a broader cultural shift away from extractive, unsustainable development toward collective stewardship of place. • Leveraged the intellectual, experiential, material and social capital of the co-sponsors of this initiative towards community incubation into the web3, blockchain, crypto space. • Added 5 new Bloom members to our local Bloom ….more than doubling our membership….all of whom are active members of the local community. • Built on already existent activites thus reducing the expenditure on the part of organizers • Catalyzed the active launching of our local Bloom chapter • Provided peer support among 8 community members to onboard onto Bloom and coordinate impact reports. • Facilitated bi-weekly meetings among market vendors • Leveraged capacitación offers from a local university to grow our impact • 18 members of our Mercado verde family invited into co-imagining and sensemaking using participatory frameworks like sociocracy • Positive message about nature for children • Color and life for the entrance of this town • Plants that brings butterflies and birds around • Received and distributed multiple bags of donated material goods (mostly clothes) and continuously upcycled otherwise unusable products. • Provided opportunities for clothes to go to families who need them and for attendees to engage in repair and renewal of otherwise discarded items. • Helped to surface and celebrate the beauty of “trash” and increased their lifespan. • Maintain a reuse product packaging space so small scale producers have access to reused and reuseable packaging. • Increased fertility in our gardens at the Coop and provided replicable examples • Diverted various waste streams including sewage, water, paper goods, termite infested wood, and coconut shells • Impacted the education of 4 people on a daily basis and 30+ people on a weekly basis in regards to waste disposal • Created a container for 4 long-term collaborators in the Brunca region of Costa Rica to come together and stregnthen their ties and collective sense-making • Flowed material capital (vehicle, chairs, tables, tent, site) to organizers of two important Bioregional events • Hosted 28 rural women for 2 nights at Los Higuerones • Created a process to allow neighboring Blooms to begin to flow our token FLOwers into the ecosystem • 10+ people participated in each activity • People learned new skills and had fun • Market attendance has benefited by people coming or staying longer for the activities • Increased community support and a sense of unity • I’ve had the opportunity to get to know the community members on a more personal level and learn what their gifts are • All ages and cultures coming together in one space to learn and create • Mejora de calidad de vida • Mejora de calidad de vida • Solidaridad • Accion • Trabajo en equipo • Conexión y Proposito • colaboracion colectiva 11 presentes • mejora de calidad de vida; para tres miembros mayores de la casa de acción de (manos cambiadas). accionando en la mejora de salud, higiene y comodidad diaria • solidaridad en acción; fortaleciendo lazos sociales • energía positiva • trabajo en equipo, 11 personas presentes generando un ambiente de alegría, buena cooperación, buena energía, generando valores como: respeto, empatía, organización y escucha activa • inspiración: generando inspiracion a que otras personas participen en las distintas actividades de manos cambiadas que se realizaran, creando una cadena de bondad y acción colectiva • 12 people helped with labor and design • Many gallons of water have been stored and used • We lowered the water bill. • The garden now receives water free of chemicals • The tank is also a bench for sitting • The tank replaced a rotten deck, creating a new space with purpose • A national meeting with Costa Ricans interested and knowledgeable in the topic • Connection with various international legal entities with expertise in establishing the Rights of Nature for different places over the world • Greater clarity about the process and resource needs • Becoming part of a greater collective that strives towards Rights of Nature for different places in Costa Rica. • Mapped the gifts and talents of 100+ people through different activities • The emergence of stronger collaboration between certain impact initiatives/ organisations in the area • An asset map for the region divided in different themes • Greater clarity about how Los Higuerones is perceived by its members • Centralisation and consolidation of the previous maps made by other research groups • 25+ people learned about medicinal plants and healthy eating habits. • 25+ people learned about some of the history of Puerto Jiménez. • An 18 year old from the community interviewed a 60+ year old from the community, • The talks promoted the farmers products and gave a backstory to who they are and what they stand for. • The speakers gained self confidence by speaking in front of a crowd. • Engaged in bimonthly organizing meetings among farmers market vendors to encourage greater agency and ownership over organizing • Having a regular rhythm for joining together as a community allows for ideas and plans to surface, be expressed and potentially be executed on. • - By engaging in loosely structured meeting spaces, those with little familiarity with these types of structures build their capacity to engage. • Engaged 28 school kids in drawing out of portrait of gifts for an asset mappping process • Guided children of the community through a visioning process of what is important to them and why. • Ensured those who represent the future of the Osa have their voices included in understanding its present. • Showed how education can take place through its building as well • Increased biodiversity on the streets by planting trees • Enhanced connection of people in the pueblo to the school • Strengthen connection between 20+people • Mapped over 30 agroecolgy initiatives on the Osa • Exchanged over 50 varieties of local seeds and plants ensuring their continuation. • Heard from 10+ speakers sharing the importance of agroecological practices in our region. • Educated 6 “regenerative influencers” on the obstacles and opportunities facing local farm families • Shared information about common plants in the garden and their medicinal and/or culinary uses • Provided a meaningful opportunity for newcomers into the area to dialogue with and get to know an important local weaver • Directed 80% of our retreat’s fresh food sourcing to local providers. • Increased the family economies of at least 3 households in significant ways • Provided 24 r3treat participants with the esperiencial story of where their food comes from • 30 people sang, danced and played instruments. • Local farmers and foreigners shared songs and jammed together. • The music uplifted the spirits of the people at the market. • New friendships were formed. • People cheered and supported eachother. • Preservation of indigenous/ ancient/ traditional / vital knowledge/ practices • organised 15+ activities • growing of the client base and solidarity among producers and visitors/ clients • Greater cohesion and appreciation among local producers of the market • By documenting the processes and practices employed in working with local ingredients, we help to demystify their usage and • Educated 10+ people about local crops, their growth patterns and culinary and medicinal usage • The Majority of the support team has now time to focus more on connecting with visitors • The majority of the support team has the space now to focus on meet and weave collaborations with people from local organisations that work on regenerating the region • We can now log how many local producers we support beyond the producers who are physically present during the market • We can better restock the inventory, because we know how much we sell of each product over time. • 5 children painted pictures and presented them to the farmers market audience. • They received applause for their work and were seen by the community. • This gives them more confidence to create and share. • This activity also encouraged families to stay at the market longer resulting in more connections, conversations and sales. • This activity helped form the foundational structure for bringing more classes and activites into the space. • greater involvement of producers and visitors in taking up activities/ tasks during /for the market • More time made available for selling and connection due to a digitized sales/ pay out system. • Greater clarity of inventory • The organising team can focus more on organising activities and engaging visitors • inspired many others how to create outfits yourself • learn how to crochet own clothes • keep traditional practices alive • more sovereignty and sustainable practices among participants • promote the sustainable fashion movement • more sense of rythm, motores, more connection to the body among participants • educating 6 students in sustainable living • Guiding students in learning how to transform scientific research results in usable on-the-ground outcomes • 4+ field trips to local initiatives/ farms to connect with locals • expansion of students perspective on healthy, wholesome living • collaboration with the University of Michigan to support our work regionally • clarity about the financial and collaborative structure • a team of 3 on-site people established with support from UCI • Convened a series of meetings to reactivate community collaboration • Engaged in numerous one-on-one conversations to discuss blockage to and oppo4tunities for greater harmonizing of groups • Developed a framework to promote and develop community governance/decion-making and funding • - organizing towards a september in-person convergence of 30+ leaders from the diverse communities to strategize a bioregional regeneration strategy map and assess common risks and opportunities • greater coherence among the bioregions part of the Brunca region • providing a model for the rest of Costa Rica in regional organising and coordination • strengthened collaboration among regional female leaders • - took part in an international learning journey of The Biofi Project and exchanges knowledge and experience with a group of 80+ international community builders, weavers and regenerative project stewards • - took part in an international learning journey of The Biofi Project and exchanges knowledge and experience with a group of 30+ international community builders, weavers and regenerative project stewards • deeper coalescence and with national bioregional projects, learning form each other by recognizing the different strategies, and the value of the diversity. • greater coherence among local people • enrichment of culture and social value • 10 members established • more structure that invites the diversity of people living in the Osa and look for connection and collaboration • Learned how to translate the idea of the bioregional financing facility into a comprehensive story and slideshow • Educated over 50+ people in how we envision this project to take place in the bioregion • The surfacing of a comprehensive story to take forward in organising our local community/ organisational allies • Clarity about the next steps in the emergent process of the Bioregional Financing Facility. • Created a 3rd series of Verdes to support cultural offerings at our weekly market • Supported 5 cultural creatives directly and 6+ market participants indirectly with Verdes • Allowed for 60,000 colones of Verdes to flow into the farmers market • Witnessed a number of recipients of the Verdes flowing them on to other collaborators at the market • Transformed coconut shells into a highly effective Biochar amendment for gardens • Produced 14 sacks of activated charcoal used to enrich the diverse soil types in our region. • Educated 20+ people on what biochar is, how it can help with soil fertility and how togo about doing it. • Represented our local bioregion in its first cohort of bioregion to create financing facilities • Attended and participated in weekly cultivator meetings to help develop and strengthen our Bioregional regeneration strategy • Between weekly sessions….engaged in advancing a framework for greater Bioregional coherence and connection • Capacítated 4 Mercado verde collaborators to more fully support the space that they use regularly • Created reciprocal relationships between active users of los higuerones and the site that is supporting their usage. • Facilitated a sense of achievement and pride in contribution among 2 market participants that had otherwise been passive users. • Hosted and co-organized 13 weekly farmer’s markets • Provided 20+ local farmers and artisans with opportunities to augment their household income • Continued to provide meaningful opportunities for consumers and producers to connect • Continued to create and host a “town square” space for people to come together • Provided tourists to the area an opportunity to engage with the local culture and people of the Osa • Brought together 32 participants from diverse communities on the Osa for a mixer dinner. • Bridged social capital between new investors in area and long term campesino leaders to generate greater understanding and connection. • Created an event where all participants felt uplifted, valued and connected. • educated 32 participants on the benefits of plant-based eating through a culinary sensory journey • Educated 16 people regarding traditional fibersheads of the Ngabe people. • Enhanced the cultural offerings available at our local Mercado Verde (weekly farmer's market). • Expanded out the flow of our market's Verdes (complementary currency) towards reciprocity to those offering enhanced programming at our mkt • Assisted 12 farmers with projects on their land that required more labor than what they had available • Provided skills and knowledge enhancement of the 28+ people who participated. • Continued to strengthen the mutual aid network we have developed in our community • Nurtured continued skill and knowledge sharing between participating farms • Through potluck lunches…expanded the culinary experiences of all participating ethnicities • Began the circulation of our market’s circular and complementary currency • Began circulating a $800 backed first edition of vouchers into our area’s farmers market • Provided up to 10,000 colones worth of reciprocity for each volunteer in our manos cambiadas program for material support provided by them • Engaged in action research around the use and multiplication of our complimentary currency’s activity. • Celebrated an agroecological culture for the Osa Peninsula • Educated 60+ people on the theme of agroecology and how it is being practiced in the Osa • Provided 10+ agroecological practitioners a platform/audience for sharing their agroecological success stories • Influenced the new mayor for the bioregion to think agroecological ly • Engaged 40+ community leaders from varios sectors in joining together and imagining into a collective future Osa • Helped break down silos between and among diverse sectors within our community. • Built upon a prior community encuentra and produced a collectively developed artifact for moving forward • Reduced the amount of new packaging being used by producers for the Mercado Verde • Reduced the number of jars, bottles, and plastic containers going to recycling center by deploying them for reuse. • Educated producers and consumers of the Mercado Verde on reducing and reusing in place of recycling • Provided an easily accessible way for people in our community to make a positive difference. • Helped foster greater connectivity between producers and consumers of Mercado verde • 30 people present at the screening received a deeper level of understanding about the life path of a local regenerative leader • an understanding of the impacts of displacing people from their homes in the name of conservation was expanded • Knowledge based on a self-sufficient life in the jungle was able to be shared with participants • Relationships among and between various ngo, institutional and community based groups were strengthened • Los Higuerones was able to further its mission as a Bioregional learning center • 5 hosts from the metropolitan area were able to be educated on how to offer a waste free event • Engaged 2 people in real time and others asynchronistically in a multi-capital framework of value • Synthesized a 2+ year journey in multi-capital exploration into a workshop • Engaging a multi-capital framework provides an opportunity to surface the contributions outside of the financial realm • Raised awareness of 30+ people on the environmental “luchas” of this bioregion. • Provided a platform for 3 campesino elders in the community to share the history • Created a public space to support the transmission of the need to act in service to our natural environment • Created a cross-cultural and inter generational container for co-commitment to protect the golfo Dulce • Educated 30 people in making tinctures and other herbal remedies • 24 markets, connecting 50+ people each market • provided over 50% of a households income to the majority of participating vendors • two cooking competitions that created innovative dishes with market produce • distributed $1000+ in produce with the season of solidarity where local customers donate money for market produce to locals in need.
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