Ark on Atitlan

Promoting a sustainable culture for a world with a future.
(On Lake Atitlan)

ARK ON ATITLAN SUSTAINABILITY PROJECT

WORKSHOPS

Moonfishcafe’s “ARK ON ATITLAN” has been developing and promoting sustainability on lake Atitlan for twenty years. We offer lectures, tours, and courses on sustainability, permaculture, bio-intensive, Mayan traditional, yoga, dc–solar electricity, water storage and more are covered:

WATER

Catchments, first flow diversion, tanks Vs. ponds, pe. Vs. concrete, plumbing, purity and mineral balance.

WATER 2

In ground Vs. tanks, swales and mini, angles and other tips, hose and pendulum leveling, treeing, grass wall and bordering aspects the pond, the sand filter, aeration and cleaning challenges, happy inhabitants.

COMPOST AND COMPOSTING TOILETS

Several different composts, holes hills and houses, watering, which compost is appropriate, flytraps chimneys the mix and other toilet details.

GETTING INTO BEDS

When to use bed gardening, digging, single dig double dig and modifications, up or down, which compost to use.

THE SUSTAINABLE FIELD CROP

Why corn is destructive, why corn can be a great soil builder, furrowing, barriers and companions.

GETTING THE TREES TO GROW

From the seeds to the bushes to harvest. Visit our depulper, fermenters and drying platform.
The pergamino, the gold and of course a cup of our gourmet organic coffee. *coffee season only

 

LECTURES

 

ECO–CULTURE FARMING and HARMONIOUS DEVELOPMENT LECTURE  

This is a two hour walk about with many fun distractions. Ample opportunity is given to ask about and focus on subjects of personal interest. We begin discussing how every garden activity is a yoga and how the same activity can make us stronger or weaker. This concept applies to the rest of our relationships with nature, which can be harmful or beneficial. Our role in recycling and being recycled, as a critical pert of a micro eco system is presented as the key to healing the planet and concurrently, our selves.

YOGA IN THE GARDEN

How nature makes us stronger(or not).

OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH NATURE

How harmonious endeavors soften the blow.

INTEGRATING OURSELVES

Recycling, dryads and the spiral of life.

WHO ARE WE NOW

A life with meaning.

Contact us @

moonfishcafe@hotmail.com