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Create a Self-Sufficient Life in the Tropics

A step-by-step online course to grow your food, build a green home, and live sustainably.

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What You Can Achieve

  • Design your living ecosystem — with food forests, roots, grains, beans, and vegetable gardens — and create a green home powered by rainwater, energy, and waste recycling systems.

  • Grow your own supermarket at home — raise chickens for eggs, care for honey bees, and master 50+ recipes, from balanced farm-to-table meals to pantry staples like flour, chocolate, vinegar, oil, and ferments.

  • Grow over $10,000 worth of food yearly — or thousands from just 100m².
    That’s using local supermarket prices — the real value of homegrown organic is much higher.

  • Feed a family of two+ from just 2,000m² (½ acre) or adapt our plan to a smaller garden or community space.

  • Maintain your homestead with just 4 hours of work per week — using regenerative, low-effort methods.

  • Get the proven system that has trained over 1,000 students worldwide — now available online!

 

Who This Course Is For

  • Anyone interested in growing food in the tropics — from backyard beginners to serious growers.

  • Food forest enthusiasts & gardeners — who want food systems that thrive in tropical climates.

  • Homesteaders and landowners — ready to turn their land into productive, low-maintenance abundance.

  • Permaculture designers — looking to sharpen their tropical design skills and tools.

  • Community leaders and organizers — bringing food security and resilience to their regions.

  • Sustainability consultants — adding tropical, real-world solutions to their practice.

 

 

Gain the skills and tools to transform your life from consumer to producer!

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Finca Tierra has been featured in...

The New York Times feature on Finca Tierra’s Tropical Permaculture Course
NBC coverage of tropical permaculture and sustainable living at Finca Tierra
VICE report on tropical sustainability and Finca Tierra’s education model
Whetstone article featuring Finca Tierra’s food sovereignty work in the tropics
Documentary Lessons from the Jungle featuring Finca Tierra’s tropical permaculture model
Telemundo segment on sustainable living and permaculture at Finca Tierra
Heraldo de Aragón article covering Finca Tierra’s ecological education in Costa Rica
La Nación coverage of Finca Tierra’s permaculture and sustainability work in Costa Rica
5-star Google review badge for best tropical permaculture course

Hear What Our Students Are Saying

Harvesting My Own Food Faster Than I Ever Dreamed

"Thanks to this online course, I'm already harvesting baskets of food every week. It happened way faster than I ever dreamed!
The nutrition charts, the clear templates and step-by-step videos made building my tropical homestead not just possible, but simple and exciting! "

— Isabella R.

This Course Paid for Itself and Then Some

"The Tropical Permaculture Course saved me from thousands of dollars in mistakes, and probably years of trial and error.
Their real-world system made growing abundant food easy, efficient, and fun.
Every step felt clear and achievable. I finally feel confident."

— Mateo V. 

Real Food, Real Independence. 

"This wasn’t just about gardening, it was about reclaiming my independence.
Learning to grow a complete diet and the wellness recipes included have changed everything for my family!
If you want real food and real freedom, at your own pace and from your home, this is the course to take!"

 — Sophia D.

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What Makes This Course Different

More than a Gardening Course — The Complete Guide for Self-Sufficiency in the Tropics

  • Built to guide you at every stage — from your first garden bed to a thriving long-term homestead

  • Field-tested over 15+ years on real tropical land

  • Designed for the tropics — humid, wet/dry, and savanna zones

  • Filmed on Finca Tierra’s off-grid homestead — real soil, real systems, real results

  • Custom tools + bonus modules — nutrition charts, garden templates, planning tools, animal care, natural pool & solar dehydrator building, and more

  • Teaches to grow and cook a balanced diet — proteins, fats, carbs, greens, and fruits (not just vegetables), 50+ recipes

  • Builds real integration — food, water, energy, and waste cycles in harmony

  • Continuously evolving — with updates and new tools over time

  • Join a global tropical community — exchange tips, seeds, resources, and region-specific advice with others

What's Inside the Course? 

Colorful tropical meal showcasing easy-to-grow crops for a self-sufficient diet.
Example tropical garden with crop and nutrient chart for self-sufficiency
Tropical permaculture layout being explained on a map for homestead planning.
Woman harvesting fruit in a thriving tropical food forest.
Woman standing in a lush tropical mini farm surrounded by vegetables and staple crops.
Sustainable bamboo kitchen designed for off-grid tropical living with solar and rainwater systems.
Adlay grain as an example of easy-to-grow tropical crops featured in the course.
Assortment of nutrient-rich tropical foods made from garden harvests in a permaculture kitchen.

Meet Your Instructors

Ana Gaspar in the tropical garden, co-founder of Finca Tierra and leader in bioregional sustainability.

Ana Gaspar A.

Costa Rican human rights lawyer specializing in Indigenous rights, environmental advocate, community organizer, co-founder of Finca Tierra, and founder of the BioRegional Plan for Talamanca. She is passionate about integrating sustainability and food sovereignty into law, politics, economics, and education, transforming bioregional and national systems to serve people and the planet while empowering local cultural identities. At Finca Tierra, she’s the heart behind the Wellness Kitchen — leading nutrition and diet design research, transforming harvests into farm-to-table recipes for vibrant health.

Ian Macaulay at Finca Tierra, focused on hands-on composting and sustainable systems design.

Ian M. Macaulay

American artist, permaculture designer, and consultant with over 15 years of experience in tropical homesteading. He is the co-founder of Finca Tierra, where he teaches practical systems for food forests, mini-farms, and off-grid living, and also co-founder of SEED Ecovillage. At Finca Tierra, he leads hands-on research and design, constantly experimenting to develop low-cost, efficient, and modern systems for sustainable living. Ian is especially focused on creating regenerative food systems that support the family nucleus — yet are fully scalable to serve communities and bioregions.

Become Self-Sufficient in the Tropics

Our complete online permaculture course is now just $599 — for a limited time!

 

Tropical Permaculture Online Course

$599

Limited-Time Offer

$1499

  • Full lifetime access to all course materials
  • 170+ expert-led lessons, videos, and downloadable resources
  • Step-by-step system to design your food forest, garden, and complete diet
  • Proven tools for land design, soil regeneration, diet planning, and off-grid living
  • Private community access and expert feedback to support your progress

Bonus Modules:

  • The Wellness Kitchen — stock your pantry and 50+ farm-to-table recipes 
  • Conscious Management of Bees & Chickens
  • Natural Pool — design and setup for off-grid swimming and water storage
  • Build a Solar Dehydrator and more...

Offer valid for next 50 students.  Join Risk-Free Money-Back Guarantee.

 

Limited-Time Offer

We’ve made this course as accessible as possible — just $599 for lifetime access — to support our mission of food sovereignty in the Tropics.

To keep the experience personal and supportive, we’re limiting this offer to the next 50 students.

After that, enrollment may close temporarily or shift to a different pricing structure.

7-Day Money-Back Guarantee — Join Risk-Free

We’ve poured years of tropical permaculture experience into this course, and we’re confident it will transform how you grow food and design your life.

If you don’t feel 100% excited and empowered within the first 7 days, just email us — we’ll refund your full purchase. No hassle, no pressure.

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Start your journey toward a resilient, abundant life.
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Our Journey to Self-Sufficiency

Like so many others, we dreamed of something more...

To help our planet, to grow our own food, live free from bills, and build a truly sustainable life rooted in freedom and simplicity. To be truly independent — living off our land in comfort and abundance, without fear of money troubles or dependence on collapsing outside systems. And most of all, we wanted time! To spend with our loved ones, for personal growth, and to truly enjoy life and nature!

In 2008, we began living that dream — and eventually founded the Finca Tierra Permaculture Education Center, where we've taught over 1,000 students from around the world. Since then, we’ve launched and supported community projects that help others reconnect with land, health, and self-reliance.

During the pandemic, our local community urgently needed support, and we realized this knowledge could serve not just our neighbors, but anyone across the tropics. That’s when we decided to create the Tropical Permaculture Online Course — a complete, step-by-step guide to living an abundant and self-sufficient life.

Today, we can live sustainably, surrounded by food forests and gardens, with the time to enjoy life on our terms.
We created this course to make that lifestyle easier, more accessible, and truly abundant for anyone in the tropics.

It’s everything we wish we had when we started and couldn’t find— and now, it’s yours.

 

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