We have a group here in Costa Rica, starting a community with a very different philosophy from yours. Our community, Gaiasana, is in the financing stage, is aimed at having some 100 families, dedicated to reconstructing native forest (as opposed to mere ‘reforestation'.), will be ‘high tech' rather than primitive. We are aiming at being neutral as to diet and spirituality, permitting just about anything in these areas but not orientated toward any particular one.

Some times we discuss things in the tropicalic.tribe.net net and all are welcome there too. We are in the hills near Puriscal from 500 to 1,000 meters above sea level and in the future could well produce organic food items that need a higher elevation in exchange for items you are producing down near the beach.

The other communities that I know off and that are active here in Costa Rica are the ecovillage at Punta Mona on the Caribbean Coast and Durika, East of Buenos Aires in the foot hills of the Talamanca Range. I have visited the later one.