ARRAIGO
RETO
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shaped by land
carried by community
forged in challenge
WELCOME TO
a gathering place
ARROYO SECO, JALISCO
What if the future didn't arrive as a warning,
but as an invitation?
What if the antidote to a world running out of time was a village that runs on sun, on tide, on season, on hands that still remember how to build something that gives more than it takes? We keep asking ourselves that. It's the question underneath everything we're building.
There's a future where the land feeds the mind, body and spirit of the people who tend it. Where the knowledge our ancestors carried — in their hands, their seeds, their architectural intuitions — lives alongside solar grids, photogrammetry and systems calibrated to a climate that keeps changing the terms. Where a village isn't a retreat from the world but a laboratory for what the world could become.
We are building that place on Mexico's Pacific coast. What would you bring to it?
HOW WE
ARRAIGO
RETO
We start where the land starts: reading water, soil, sun. Regenerative agriculture turns that reading into food forests, water systems — the living structure that feeds everything else. Meals come from what's a few steps away; farm-to-table not as a feature, but as the default.
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Eco-conscious building follows the same logic upward: bamboo, adobe, earthen plaster, roofs angled to catch what the sun is already giving us. Structures will be raised from what the land already offers. Nothing imported that doesn't have to be. Nothing built that the land can't hold.
SHAPE BY LAND
FORGE IN CHALLENGE
Our survival & adventure programming puts you in the jungle with fire, shelter and navigation instruction — alongside Survivor alumni who know exactly what the edge feels like. No shortcuts, no grid to fall back on, just the oldest technologies humans ever had: instinct, ingenuity, each other. The land asks something of you. You find out what you're capable of.
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CARRY BY COMMUNITY
Every part of what we build is bound to a commitment: protect the ecosystems we're part of, and make sure the communities around us rise with this place, not apart from it. Our educational cohorts move through in small numbers, on purpose. Many come back to build on what they learned, because once you've been part of something here, you're part of the Xochiraíz community for good. We partner with the organizations already doing the work of rewilding these waters and reforesting these hills, and a share of what we grow and teach moves back to them.
PERMACULTURE DESIGN CERTIFICATION
NOVEMBER '26 + JANUARY '27 COHORTS
You'll read landscapes and climate patterns, study soil ecology and regenerative agriculture, design water systems and food forests, and learn natural building techniques rooted in what the land already offers, all before turning that knowledge toward the community systems that hold it together. Small cohorts, real fieldwork, instructors who've spent decades doing this across Latin America.
12 days
120 hour
internationally recognized pdc
upcoming cohorts
We're a living classroom for regenerative agriculture, permaculture design and eco-village design. It's the kind of education that gets dirt under your fingernails before it gets ideas in your head. Our courses aren't lecture-and-worksheet; they're built the way a food forest is built: layered, patient, always in conversation with the land itself.
You’ll learn to read soil the way you’d read a room, to design water systems that think in decades, to build structures that belong to their bioregion instead of fighting it. You’ll learn to stack functions, the way a permaculture designer thinks.
But the classroom doesn't have walls. Some days that means spearfishing or snorkeling the reef for dinner. Some days it's diving deeper, or saddling up and riding the coastline at dawn. Some days it's bushcraft — fire, shelter, water, the old skills — turned into survivor-style challenges that leave you a little more capable than you were that morning. We believe competence is a form of joy, and we're not precious about teaching it that way.
Soon, that circle widens. Artist and culinary residencies will bring makers and chefs to live and create in direct relationship with the land. The measure of success isn't how many people pass through. It's how much stronger this coast is because they did.
NATURAL BUILDING WORKSHOP
MARCH 2027
This spring we are excited to offer this hands on building course taught by a master bamboo architect, split between classroom sessions on material science and technique, and hands in the mud. You'll have the opportunity to work bamboo, cob, and rammed earth while building a structure shaped by this coastline's sun and rain instead of fighting them, learning the same techniques raising our own builds at Xochiraíz.
Coming Soon
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cob
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SURVIVOR MINI GAME + SKILLS
MAY 2027
Four days, a long weekend. This is where you find out. Dropped in the game before you know a single name, sizing up strangers, deciding who to trust and who’s getting cut, hungry and still trying to be decent about it. That’s real Survivor, not the highlight reel. Then the fundamentals hit: fire, shelter, navigation, spearfishing, taught by people who’ve lived on these skills. Alumni who know exactly what the edge feels like. It ends the way it should: bonfire, party, one name standing as winner of the first ever Xochiraíz Game of Survivor.
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our partners
Located on the southern coast of Jalisco, Mexico, Capacha Coastal Conservation Center advances sustainable design principles and practices to support the health and resilience of coastal ecosystems and local economies. The Center is a joint venture among environmental nonprofits, regional universities, and the private sector, promoting interdisciplinary solutions for improved productivity, health, and resilience of coastal ecosystems and local economies.
the work has just begun
We're not handing you a brochure for a utopia we've already built. We're inviting you into the scaffolding. We're students first, always, even as we teach — still learning from the fishermen, the farmers, the abuelas who've been composting since long before it had that name.
If you've got knowledge to bring, seeds to trade, questions to ask, or hands willing to get calloused... there's a place for you here.
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