Residents
Current volunteers
Teachers
Non-Resident Members

Residents

The population at the Bosque ranges from three to thirty. We always have a steady stream of volunteers and visitors, and are preparing spaces for additional residents or long-term visitors. We seek one or two long term resident volunteers. We also seek folks who are interested in living in or near the Bosque Village. Contact us if you share our interests and would like to explore visiting with a potential residency option.

Brian

A painter from Seattle, Washington, Brian founded the Bosque Village in 2004. He has overseen the installation of solar panels and the construction of cisterns with over 100,000 liters capacity, 5 composting toilets, 5 cabanas, a large art studio and a cobwood sauna. His interests include natural building, permaculture, art, sustainable living and community. He teaches photography, plant propagation, and eco-village planning. He is constantly learning by both reading and experience, and spends much of his time investigating ways in which humans can live together at the Bosque in a positive and meaningful manner.

 

Marie

Marie joined Brian at the Bosque in August 2007 and began helping with web development, cooking, and volunteer program management. She oversees the kitchens and plans weekly menus, creates and updates web pages and helps manage various projects. She teaches paper making and book binding. Her interests include natural building, permaculture and sustainability, cooking, nutrition, and crafts. She is also working on writing up a Bosque cookbook.

You?

If you are looking for an intentional community and share our values and interests, then we'd love to meet you!
One of the best ways to figure out if you'd fit in with the space and enjoy living here is to come join our volunteer program. We are especially interested in yoga teachers, English and Spanish instructors, people who are able to telecommute, masseuses, eco building instructors, artist and writer assistants, and people who can lead activities and programs. Above all, we are interested in responsible people who are friendly, honest, and good.

The Dogs

From Mambo to Honey Cupcake, our dogs have amazing personalities. Usually loving, occasionally mischievous, and always funny. Click here to read about the dogs.

 

 

Volunteers

Our volunteers help with day-to-day work in gardens, cleaning, and building. They lead activities, are helpful for basic questions you might have, and are generally a group of awesome and friendly people!

Judith - Resident Volunteer

September 2009 - February 2010. Judith comes from Germany and will be volunteering at the Bosque through February, 2010. She is a violinist with 12 years experience, and also has attended a series of circus schools for 9 years. She brought lots of juggling equipment and a trapeze with her, and will be leading various circus activities as well as the low ropes course. Her other interests include reading, riding, snowboarding, skiing, and lazy nights. Before arriving at the Bosque she was working in a village teaching English to school children. She's a polyglot, speaking German, English, Spanish and French. The languages she wants to learn next include Italian and Polish.

 

Teachers

We have many friends around the area who are available to teach a variety of classes to visitors at the Bosque Village. For some classes, the teachers come to the Bosque - for others, the students walk to a nearby village to take a class in the teacher's studio or home.
If you plan to take a class at the Bosque, it is helpful for us to know prior to your visit so that we can arrange for the teacher to be available.

Socorro

Socorro lives with her husband and three children. She teaches traditional pine needle basket weaving. For a basic first class, students will leave with their own handmade small basket. An advanced class is offered for students who want to learn techniques to make square or oval shaped baskets, a variety of basket rims, and baskets with lids.

She also occasionally offers salsa and tortilla making classes, and some volunteers work with her and Marie in the Bosque kitchen.

 

Nadine

Nadine, from a nearby village, can walk to the Bosque Village to teach tortilla and salsa making classes to interested visitors. Like most women living in rural Mexico, Nadine makes fresh tortillas and salsas for her family daily. She has two children, Patty and Adolfo, and a husband, Chilino.

 

Chilino

Chilino works with our volunteers, teaching them cob building, adobe block making, plant propagation, and basic gardening techniques. He can teach interested visitors how to graft fruit trees (available only January and February), as well as natural building. He lives in a nearby village with his wife (Nadine) and two children.

 

Beto

Beto is the carver of the totem pole! He learned wood carving at the Bosque Village in 2004, and has since been practicing and developing his skills. He is available for wood carving lessons, and also helps teach visitors and volunteers plant propagation and natural building techniques. He lives in a nearby village with his wife, Magdalena, and their three children, Enrique, Emily, and Ania. Currently he is working in a vineyard in California, but will be back in October 2009.

 

Gonzalo

Gonzalo is an experienced stone worker. He learned stone working and techniques while working for a winery in California. Back in Mexico, Gonzalo is an independent contractor specializing in beautiful stonework. On prior notice, Gonzalo can come to the Bosque to teach interested visitors and volunteers stone working basics. His rockwork can be seen in the base of our sauna as well as our totem pole.

 

 

Alicia

Alicia bakes bread weekly in her domed adobe and brick wood-fired oven. She invites interested students to work with her and learn her process for baking bolillos (traditional white roll) and pan dulces (sweet bread) . Students work with her from 11am - 4:30pm. Lunch is included in the class. Alicia lives with her husband and son in a nearby village.

 

 

 

 

 

Non-resident Members

Either active donors, remote volunteers, or past residents who may eventually come back to live at the Bosque; our members are a valued part of the Bosque team!

Raúl

Raúl was a resident volunteer at the Bosque for four months. He was an active leader, teaching permaculture workshops, natural building, and Spanish. He's also a great musician and loves to sing songs and play guitar around the fire at night. Raúl has a diploma in Ecological Economics from the University of Buenos Aires, has taken courses on non-violence from Greenpeace, and has a certificate in Permaculture Design from the Institute of Permaculture in Argentina. He will be interning at Findhorn Ecovillage in Scotland, and will return to Mexico certified to teach Permaculture Design.

 

 

Geoff

Geoff lives in Washington, USA with his wife Laura. He has visited the Bosque several times and has been providing consistent support since the birth of the project in 2004. Geoff helps with computer projects, mental support, and helping us with various things remotely in the US.

 

 

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