Draft 1.2 rev 03/09/10
Natural Solutions Foundation
www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org
www.NaturalSolutionsFoundation.org
Is Proud to Present
The Valley of the Moon™
Residential Community Program and Eco Demonstration Project
(VOTM)
Chiriquí Province, Panama Highlands
Natural Solutions Foundation Trustees
Maj. Gen. Albert N Stubblebine III (US Army, Ret.) Trustee and President
Rima E Laibow, MD, Trustee and Medical Director
releyes@gmail.com Volcan – Chiriquí, Panama
011-507-771-5059 011-507-6838 9898
Ralph Fucetola JD, Trustee and Counsel
ralph.fucetola@usa.net 58 Plotts Road, Newton, NJ 07860
Volcan Baru and the Pacific Ocean are Visible From Many Points in the Area
View Toward Volcan Baru
Sample of Hospitable Land that Invites Farms, Houses
Larry Deckerhoff, Advisory Board Chairman
Larry@zero2.com
Houston, Texas
Valley of the Moon™ Eco Demonstration Community
http://www.NaturalSolutionsFoundation.org
Natural Solutions Foundation
http://www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org
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Table of Contents
All Growing Areas are Irrigated
I. Cover Page
II. Trustees
I. Table of Contents
II. Vision and Purpose
III. Mission and Implementation
IV. Concept & Sites
V. RC Project Details
VI. Financial Structure
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Vision and Purpose
Valley of the Moon™
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Residential Community Program
Providing a Few Members of the International Community of Alert, Aware People with an Opportunity to Live Well in an-
• Off-the-Grid
• Health Promoting
• Wholesome
• Sustainable Environment.
In a sustainable, wholesome community, food must be clean and unadulterated. Therefore, at VotM, we will grow our own in a BeyondOrganic BioDynamic Zero Emissions [BODYZE™] context. While we provide abundance and health for ourselves, we will be teaching farmers and families to do the same. Reclaiming the production of food and restoring the essential balance of food, farming, community and the environment is essential to any healthy community or nation. The Valley of the Moon™ Eco Demonstration Project (VotM) will provide well-planned, integrated options for healthy living. This program is for individuals who do not want to build their own homes on the trust land, but prefer to have the structures build for them; all structures in any event will be “green” structures.
The Residential Community Program is embedded in the larger purpose and function of the Valley of the Moon. The primary premise of VotM is to introduce best practices around full sustainability – agricultural, health, environmental, economic and cultural and community and to do so with “Passion, Perfection and Profitability”.*
To accomplish this multi-layered and complex goal in a concrete, transmissible fashion, many sub projects are involved, calling upon the wisdom and capacities of local and international experts. VotM Residential Community is one such program, permitting our participants an opportunity to make a home in the pristine environment of the Panama Highlands, with its year-round Spring-like climate in the context of a community which learns, practices and disseminates sustainable techniques, technologies and trends. Private homes will be a part of the focus and function of the community, impacting its form as well.
* Fr. Godfrey Nzamajo, O.D., Ph. D, Founder and Director, Songhai Foundation, Benin Africa http://www.songhai.org/songhai_en/ – learn more about Songhai and Zero Emissions Farming at www.YoutTube.com/naturalsolutions
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Mission and Implementation
Mission: The Natural Solutions Foundation in Panama (NSF-P) has been established exclusively for charitable, educational, literary and scientific research purposes, with the express intent of creating an Eco Demonstration Project and Educational Program in Panama that includes residences, a farm and farm school, health, performing arts, seminar and performance centers and our VotM Community Outreach Program
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NSF-P is a sister Foundation to the Natural Solutions Foundation (NSF-US), a humanitarian tax exempt NGO whose mission is “To discover, develop, document, demonstrate and disseminate Natural Solutions to the problems facing us and threatening our health and freedom, achieving and maintaining a healthy self, community and world.” In accordance with the Panama Escritura, NSF-P “is constituted with the purpose to promote, develop and execute projects with charitable purposes in Panama and in other countries around the world.” Valley of the Moon Eco Demonstration Project and its embedded Residential Community is one such project.
To further the purposes of the Foundations, we have also established a commercial enterprise in Panama, the Natural Solutions Corporation (NSC), which is empowered to receive funds for land and other development purposes, acting under the provision of the Escritura which permits and encourages NSF-P to establish such enterprises.
In keeping with this purpose, NSF-P has created the Valley of the Moon™ Eco Demonstration Community (VotM) which is in the Chiriquí Highlands. VotM is a demonstration Seed Community with diverse activities serving a common purpose:
– A BeyondOrganic, BioDynamic, Zero Emissions (BODYZE™) farm providing:
1. A complete and affordable food supply for the members of the community and the surrounding areas of Panama
2. A “BeyondOrganic, BioDynamic, Zero Emissions” (BODY-ZE™)* Farm and Farm School demonstrating and disseminating best practices and techniques both in commercial farming and Intensive Urban Agriculture (IUA) applications.
– The Advanced Natural Solutions Health and Wellness Center providing natural and advanced health services and education in a world-class Health and Wellness Facility as a Health Destination to which residents of the Valley of the Moon™ Eco Demonstration Community, the wider community, Panama, the region and the global community may come. Since several of our participants are world-renowned health practitioners, this goal is realistic. Bringing in Practitioners in Residence will broaden and deepen these options. The initial site of the Center will be at the foundation’s Headquarters Finca in Volcan; expected opening: Spring 2010. The Wellness Center draft Protocol can be found through www.DrRima.net
– A net-energy producing, low-resource consumption, energy-independent community using Zero Emissions Farming and other accessible technology to meet and exceed its own needs. Techniques to apply off-grid energy options will be shared with the local and wider communities.
-A Community Arts and Education Center
– A Restaurant(s) and Teaching Kitchen to share nutritional abundance and options with interested eaters and learners
– A Nature Preserve, Recreation and Wilderness Area holding land in trust for future generations
– A hotel and eco tourism facility where seminar participants, medical and wellness tourism guests and those enjoying the beauties of the environment (and the BeyondOrganic BioDynamic cuisine) can enjoy their time at the VotM
– A Residential Community in which VotM full-time participants can reside
– An educational system for the children of residents and those in the local community who choose to have their children attend
– A local economy to allow both VotM residents and those in the local community who wish to participate in it a means of stabilizing their economic situation avoiding the need to expend Balboa for local products, goods and services.
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Concept & Sites
Walking the Land Allows Participants to Visualize Their Homes
Valley of the Moon™ Residential Community is an activity of the Natural Solutions Foundation’s International Decade of Nutrition (IDN). The central concept of IDN lies in the belief that a healthy food supply is essential to a healthy community, in both the local and wider sense, and is fully achievable. Such a health food supply will be established in the context of intact communities of producers and consumers using best practices (which are, by definition, toxin free).
Some functions are best housed on the same site, while others are most successfully placed on varied sites. For that reason, VotM plans to operate at several sites but its main site will be in the Chiriqui Highlands.
GMO-Free, Pesticide Free Coffee Harvested at Valley of the Moon™
The Valley of the Moon™ Coffee Finca is located in Santa Clara. Coffee production areas: 10 prime hectares of land planted with prized specialty coffees grown over 1200 m (approximately 4000 ft) producing containers of roast coffee produced under the Valley of the Moon™ label by the renowned Hartmann family. Additional coffee areas will be planted as terrain and conditions allow. An additional prime 10 Hectares is also part of the VotM Coffee Finca
The Headquarters, Hospitality, Intensive Agriculture Training Area and Seminar Center are currently located in Volcan. A .78 Hectaria parcel of land with two houses and associated structures is expected to be developed to accommodate an 18-person hotel, seminar facility, NSF-P headquarters (including administration, communications, reception/hospitality) and an Intensive Urban Agriculture (IAU) food production training area. A professional kitchen specifically designed for teaching purposes will facilitate both outstanding food service and culinary education for health and sustainability. Education and employment opportunities for local personnel are part of the program. Managerial skills will be fostered and taught so that personnel become empowered to develop their own enterprises after association with the VotM project.
The HQ finca Greenhouse is the subject of several videos at the Food Freedom eJournal:
www.FoodFreedomeJournal.org
With future development, emphasis will shift from the property nearest Volcan to larger sites for most of the functions fulfilled by the initial Volcan site. But for the foreseeable future, Volcan will house the social and active part of the community’s life.
The Residential Community Project Site will be located on a minimum of 20 to 50 hectares (50 – 100 acres) along with cultural, health and various social upliftment projects in the area.
The site will see the fully developed BeyondOrganic BioDynamic Zero Emissions farm and farm school, sharing the site with our hotel, housing, food service, performance and arts center, seminar, wellness facility and recreational areas. This integrated community will serve as a hub for the VotM project. The initial area can easily be expanded by acquiring the surrounding land.
It is on pristine land that the initial Residential Community will be developed.
It is important to note that land will be part of a land trust. Individual lots will not be sold. Rather, 99 year leases, renewable in perpetuity, will be offered. Residential Community participants are free to build the house of their desires on the land. They will have full ownership of the house.
NSF-P will hold the land in common as a land-lease program while the various uses of the land support and sustain a community with diverse functions, all of which are focused around teaching and dissemination. All aspects of the community will be designed to serve as demonstrations of sustainable, reproducible and transmissible solutions to the problems facing communities all over the world.
Undeveloped, protected forest and water-shed areas will be maintained and extended. We are working with another international NGO to plant large areas of fruit and nut trees with the goal of providing education for farmers on how to develop those crops using totally natural techniques. Lower elevation lands are currently being acquired to provide farm schools and food in different micro climates.
The Project will be based on a land trust model: individual lots will not be sold, but leased with a perpetually renewable lease, assignable to heirs and others, and saleable with right of first refusal going to the community. Residential Community participants will own their own dwellings and will have the right to a voice in community governance.
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VotM Residential Community Program (RCP) Details
The Residential Community Participation (RCP) is structured as follows:
Participation: $75,000. Not including cost of housing.
Receipt of One Beneficial Interest Certificate (BIC)
Benefits of the BIC:
• Bears accumulating interest at Banco National Prime Rate, currently 4%. (Community economic activities support the interest payments)
• Permits participation in Community Governance
• Provides access to BODY-ZE foods at coop prices
• Provides access to community goods and services at coop prices.
• Provides perpetually renewable 99 year land lease for home site (homesite locations to be determined by community architectural and land use plan; choice of sites in order of BIC issuance)
Each RCP BIC is entitled to the choice of a 2,000 to 2,500 sq ft “green” home, at participant’s cost, with community oversight.
BIC holder owns the home and may sell or will it, subject to standard coop community approval. New purchaser of home will refund cost of BIC to seller.
As with any new community which offers beneficial interests or other joint potential, we cannot promise the rate of return but can provide information to make a realistic assessment of the opportunities presented possible. We believe a conservative estimate of potential shows the Eco Valley concept, here in the Valley of the Moon™, offers competitive financial and social benefits.
This is a private, confidential and privileged communication to persons interested in supporting the work of the Foundation and is not an offer of securities or any investment. While the Trustees and others involved have substantial experience in organizing agricultural and other projects, advanced health care options, developing real estate and community oriented commercial or nonprofit activities, there can be no guarantee that the project will materialize in the manner suggested in this initial informational memorandum. Final development will depend on funding, through donations, grants, beneficial interests and loans both from private sources and financial institutions, as well as legal development requirements. This Summary is not an Offering Statement and no one should invest or offer to invest without full due diligence and any necessary offering memorandum.
Local Indigenous Noble Bügle People Pick the Coffee Crop With Care: Once Touched, if a Coffee Bean falls off the branch, it cannot be used for coffee.
