Green Map San Miguel

The Lavender Project is a cooperative in a small rural town 35 miles north of San Miguel de Allende raising organic lavendar for soaps, oil, honey and other products. Proceeds from the Lavender Project fund a breakfast program for 60 children in the town of La Colorada A women's coop creates Sola Lavanda artisan soaps which are available in San Miguel de Allende at the El Charco store, La Victoriana, and craft markets.

The Ex-Hacienda La Petaca project aspires to provide the local community, La Cuadrilla, with modern technologies while encouraging and maintaining local cultural knowledge, technologies, and arts. It includes cultivation of food, preservation of water, a search for alternative energy sources, and restoration of the river and the surrounding land. In addition to soil rehabilitation, vermicomposting, rain water harvesting and other environmentally friendly techniques, they are investigating the possibility of using a poultry methane digester at the adjacent Bachoco farm.

Santuario Cañada de la Virgen is a nature preserve and organic cattle ranch surrounding the Cañada de Virgen archeological site. Profits from ecotourism fund projects to improve the environmental and economic sustainability of the local communities. Activities include horseback riding, camping, hiking, astronomy and meditation.

"Las Rancheritas" of Agustín González, a village 12 miles south of San Miguel de Allende, make hooked rugs - often using left-over or recycled materials. The project enhances the lives of rural women by creating scholarships for girls so they can continue their education and by providing income.

This international academic and research facility is being constructed on 300 acres near Los Rodriguez and will house up to one hundred Texas A&M students. The farmland around the complex will be used for plant and animal research and teaching, and will include organic production of foods for consumption on site. The facility will reduce its energy consumption through on-site wind and solar power production.