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", "hidden": false, "question": "Please describe your project's mission and values.", "questionId": 1}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "Tierra Valiente is located in the volcanic highlands on the Caribbean slope of Costa Rica in the Arenal region, the territory of the Maleku. The 88-acre commons of Tierra Valiente is nestled between the Chachagua River, Volcano Arenal and the Children's Eternal Rainforest. We are embedded in the town of San Juan within the broader community of San Isidro de Pe\u00f1as Blancas.", "hidden": false, "question": "What is the location of your land project?", "questionId": 2}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "As a living lab, we are aware of the structures and systems that have calcified our culture and live in the questions of how we can create transition pathways that create other possibilities in service to Life. The ways in which we do this are: \n\nDecommodifying Land\nPlacing land in trust and shifting from ownership to models of collective stewardship where we are entrusted with the care of land rather than entitled to it as property. \n\nCultivating Resilience \nIntegrating with the local community and creating bio-regional resiliency through active participation with our mutual-aid network, Fuerza De Amor. \n\nRegenerating Land\nGrowing food through community agricultural commons using regenerative and syntropic agriculture principles to grow food, improve the health of the soil and sequester carbon.\n\nEmulating Nature\nImplementing biomimetic and biophilic principles that emulate nature\u2019s genius to create resilient living systems for food, water, waste and energy.\n\nRedistributing Resources\nOperating as a non-for-profit, community-run, cooperative with an economic model that redistributes resources.\n\nProtecting Biodiversity\nProtecting ecological and cultural biodiversity through creating biological corridors and being in solidarity with indigenous peoples and original wisdom keepers.\n", "hidden": false, "question": "Summarize the regenerative activities you are engaged in.", "questionId": 3}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "These funds will go towards our solidarity scholarship fund which creates accessibility to  the center for BIPOC activists, land defenders, and water protectors for healing and restoration from their frontline work.\n\nThese funds will go towards the expansion of our agricultural commons. Currently, our farm provides 60% of the food we serve at the center. The remaining food we source locally from neighboring  farms implementing similar practices. Our intention over the next 3 years  is to expand our agricultural commons to create a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) in which we invite local people from the  community of San Juan to participate in. Every household that volunteers at the farm receives the food that is grown. This will enable our local bioregion to have more food security and to share regenerative and syntropic farming practices, which are currently not implemented in the local community. \n", "hidden": false, "question": "What particular initiatives will these funds support?", "questionId": 4}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "The way in which we will measure the impact of the solidarity scholarship fund is through: \n\n1) The number of people that we can offer scholarships to.\n2) The quality of their wellbeing before they arrive and when they leave.\n3)  The enrichment of the relational field.\n\nThe way in which we will measure the impact of the CSA is through: \n\n1) The number of people that join the CSA.\n2) The amount of food we are growing.\n3) The behavior changes overtime of local community members implementing regenerative and syntropic farming practices.", "hidden": false, "question": "How will/do you measure or determine the impact of your efforts?", "questionId": 5}, {"type": "short-answer", "hidden": true, "question": "Your Signal phone number (for a group chat, if you have one)", "questionId": 6, "encryptedAnswer": {"ciphertext": "Y9TP4ttq3z/ReeO1oxzHWi/g6mAS4ZT/+RJnv4BDZeQ=", "encryptedSymmetricKey": "2c2ec58bdb22c0c6e8a970360d05d1865daf85ab02cfa7a43935c37b472736fb4457b354c35bb32c2949006643e18606bfee9bfc136cbc07dc39d0d4b569efd69527c4b03b1f5350596d7534460686c0294eb8dc89e93113ab6e15c8464a7281af007af421e1a00a24cd0878d454e8f5735e9527ce0485548b94437b943daa090000000000000020eb8e6ba91ad059f05f49655a716887817f2880cafb82c280012ad4da4725349222438d7330ebfc0247c71de8608d498b"}}, {"type": "short-answer", "hidden": true, "question": "Your Telegram phone number (for a group chat, if you have one)", "questionId": 7, "encryptedAnswer": {"ciphertext": "AuRkpZCQ94QRMR4IXr9oW6nc+38rLZ/pAxgRgqueVmk=", "encryptedSymmetricKey": "78ba5880a3f5832754f58ab5108785089460b4b5e59ebe57b27170cad48b923a547fde949dd36fa05949ef23d637cf08777779d6e7174c2334836cf4302f28066d3f1e9cfac1f191fb02ef9a134bcd7bb98a8f44e3f120da525bd2799d050faa637ca81213399f14bae849701f23e38ba7f00a787e4a953c0bdbbd6ba5073e4100000000000000208989126f5d3880ec823482dc849140b52ebea62092b76bb597595a3770f078c76b9369a86751b1f7e75018b76906228e"}}], "project": {"id": "0x87c74720aa4ecc385f73dd376233bb6e70dc6b7636450101ad3d0e14c4858334", "title": "Brave Earth (Tierra Valiente) ", "logoImg": "bafkreidef3ix5iljpfkcs7gkzp3ni53nu7bacs56bjcrh7rhcwtcsvx3pm", "metaPtr": {"pointer": "bafkreiayyit5u3wwtrdjmucpm5gsq3sbq4kla3qaylrdsgdkix5n6ied7e", "protocol": "undefined"}, "website": "https://www.braveearth.com", "bannerImg": "bafkreig3buqnmt5uuikn6y6l3w353yqkb3oiru5huiromo4rhwm3nhb2fi", "createdAt": 1713568557491, "credentials": {}, "description": "Brave Earth (Tierra Valiente) is a living lab embodied through a learning center,  regenerative farm, emerging residential community, and mutual-aid network.\n\nThe impulse for Tierra Valiente stems from an awareness of our civilizational trajectory within the dominant culture embedded with the logics of extraction, colonization, and separation from the living world. We are both informed by this critical lens and inspired to create outside of the old incentive landscapes to build a culture rooted in  reciprocity, regeneration and resiliency.\n\n[![DJI-0069-1.jpg](https://i.postimg.cc/WbJR025j/DJI-0069-1.jpg)](https://postimg.cc/CzY6gVy6)\n\nOur 88-acre commons is home to the Center for Cultural Transition, a learning center where we offer experiences at the intersection of the political, spiritual and ecological all through an animist lens. We are curating these containers to decolonize the conditioning of the dominant system and to be in deeper service to our collective potential. \n\n[![IMG-4327.jpg](https://i.postimg.cc/VN3RX8vr/IMG-4327.jpg)](https://postimg.cc/f3fmh1xD)\n\nOur regenerative and syntropic farm is integrated into our center both providing the nourishment for guests and acting as a demonstration site to  share the importance and benefits of these practices to grow healthy foods, revitalize our soils and sequester carbon. \n\n[![untitled2.jpg](https://i.postimg.cc/xjLjS3SL/untitled2.jpg)](https://postimg.cc/7bYr37hL)\n\nOur mutual-aid network, [Fuerza De Amor](https://fuerzadeamor.org), serves the local community in which we are embedded through acts of service and solidarity. Through deep listening to the needs of the community the  activities of the mutual-aid network have ranged over the years  from home renovations to create dignified and safe living conditions, planting food gardens, repairs on the local school, and programs for the youth. \n\n[![Untitled3.jpg](https://i.postimg.cc/rpb47N2v/Untitled3.jpg)](https://postimg.cc/v1rDV9Bz)\n\nTierra Valiente serves as an incubator for sister projects that are stewarded by members of the community including: Culture Hack Labs (CHL) and Transition Resource Circle (TRC).\n\n[Culture Hack Labs](https://culturehack.io) is a not-for-profit that supports social movements, foundations and activists to shift the cultural narratives that create and justify ecological breakdown, extraction, and inequality. \n\n[Transition Resource Circle](https://https://www.transitionresourcecircle.org/) is a \u201ctemporary organizational zone\u201d that focuses on evolving the philanthropic sector with the intention of rebalancing wealth, power and historical injustices. \n\n[![Screen-Shot-2024-04-19-at-10-45-24-PM.png](https://i.postimg.cc/m2y1wGXz/Screen-Shot-2024-04-19-at-10-45-24-PM.png)](https://postimg.cc/RNq0S2z4)\n\nIn a time of systems collapse, our intention is to embody the transition pathways that create other possibilities in service to Life.\n\n*\u201cWhen a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order.\u201d* Ilya Prigogine\n\n[![Untitled5.jpg](https://i.postimg.cc/GpqZJ9Y7/Untitled5.jpg)](https://postimg.cc/hJQyKD2T)\n\n", "lastUpdated": 0}, "recipient": "0xF68C1b53D11fc9838e7DB4FbA0a7633b704F6DC9"}}