Avalon Organic Gardens & EcoVillage Reopen for Tours

Avalon Organic Gardens & EcoVillage Reopen for Tours

Tumacácori, AZ, USA: North America’s largest and longest-sustaining ecovillage is open again for tours. For more than 30 years Avalon Organic Gardens & EcoVillage has been a popular destination for people from around the world interested in learning about sustainability and community. Set on 220 acres in the scenic Santa Cruz River Valley and nestled between the Tumacácori and San Cayetano Mountains, Avalon is a sanctuary of natural and spiritual beauty.

With more than 100 full-time residents and volunteers from around the globe working daily towards creating a regenerative culture of spiritual, environmental, and social awareness, Avalon Gardens is a prototype for the lifestyle of the near future. Residents are a union of souls and kindred spirits with the vision of creating a world that will heal and thrive through a planetary consciousness shift towards conservation, sustainability, preservation, regeneration, and a recognition of our global interdependence.

Avalon’s popular EcoTours share a comprehensive look into organic gardening, permaculture, rainwater harvesting, grey water harvesting, heritage crops and heirloom seeds, poly-culture and food diversity, composting, solar and wind energy, green building techniques incorporating natural materials as well as upcycled and recycled materials, watershed management, and Arizona’s largest Food Forest. Organic meals are available on tour by donation. As well, visitors can learn about the spiritual and social systems that foster and sustain the interpersonal aspects of the ecovillage community.

The respect for the natural world at Avalon is based in the understanding of the spiritual interconnectedness of all people and things. Avalon Organic Gardens & EcoVillage was founded in 1989 by Gabriel of Urantia and Niánn Emerson Chase, with the vision of building a Planetary Sacred Home with Change Agents from around the world coming together to live in harmony under the banner of “One God, One Planetary Family.” The ecovillage is continually growing and building for the future. At the heart of this sacred land the Global Temple is under construction – a temple for people from around the world of all cultures and faiths to come together in recognition of our unity as children of the Creator.

Avalon Organic Gardens & EcoVillage is a part of Global Community Communications Alliance is an IRC § 501c3 tax exempt spiritual educational organization and community of people from around the world establishing a prototype for a new global society founded on spiritual unity and principles of divine pattern for creating a sustainable planetary culture.

For more information or to book a tour, call 520-398-2655. You can also visit the website at http://avalongardens.org