A community with nature
at its heart.
Rancho de las Estrellas is a small, intentional eco-community taking shape on fifty hectares near Oaxaca's Pacific Coast. We are building a place where people live close to the land, grow food together, educate their children in nature, and share the responsibility of keeping this landscape healthy for generations. It is not a resort, not a development — it is a home.
Four ideas that shape everything.
Regenerative living
Every decision starts with the land. We build with the climate rather than against it — passive cooling, rainwater capture, native reforestation, and food forests that give back more than they take. The goal is a place that is measurably richer in biodiversity ten years from now than it is today.
Wellness & contemplation
Shared spaces are designed for stillness as much as activity: a natural swimming lagoon, shaded yoga decks, walking trails that loop through the forest canopy, and quiet corners with no signal at all. Community wellness is not an amenity — it is the architecture.
Education for the next generation
Nandia, our future school, will teach children outdoors — in gardens, on trails, under dark skies. The curriculum blends Montessori principles with ecology, local culture, and the kind of hands-on learning that only a living landscape can provide. A school for children who grow up knowing where their food comes from.
Community & belonging
The common land — roughly seventy percent of the property — belongs to everyone. Shared kitchens, fire circles, workshops, and a working observatory create the conditions for real relationships. We believe the strongest communities are small enough that everyone knows each other's name.
What this looks like in ten years.
A thriving, bilingual school where children learn among ceiba trees and tide pools. Food forests producing avocados, papayas, cacao, and herbs that supply the community kitchen. A ring of climate-responsive homes — open-air, low-impact, designed by people who live in them — woven through reforested canopy. A working observatory under one of the darkest skies in southern Mexico, open to residents and the surrounding community. And trails, always trails — connecting it all, keeping the landscape walkable, keeping neighbours close.
Not a utopia. A place that works because people chose to build it carefully, together, over time.
How we make decisions.
We operate on consent-based governance: decisions move forward when no one has a reasoned objection, not when everyone agrees. Each household has an equal voice. Land-use changes, new builds, and community spending are decided collectively. Day-to-day stewardship is handled by small working circles — water, food, education, infrastructure — that report to the community monthly. Simple, transparent, and designed to stay that way as we grow.
Become part of it.
We are looking for people who want to build something lasting — not buy into something finished.
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