SANCTUARY FOR TROPICAL EDIBLE PLANTS - NGO

Short Term Stay

Lakefront, Plant Based Meals & Learning

This is a 1–3 night immersive experience by the lake, where you’ll take part in workshops, plant-based meals, and explore practical ways on how humans and nature can thrive together.

Education during your stay centers around two core topics:

The Life Diet, a way of eating that supports both human and planetary health.
The Seed-to-Seed Cycle, how to grow food in sync with nature.

By Donation: minimum $100 USD / Q750 per person per night

Check-In: 3:00 PM

Check-Out: 11:00 AM

Contact Us to Book your Stay:

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What’s Included in Your Stay

Accommodation: private room or camping available (tent with sleeping gear)
Access to the lake for swimming & relaxation
Shower and toilets
Towels
Filtered drinking water
All meals (plant-based & Life Diet-inspired)
Workshops (more info below)

Workshops

Life Diet Cooking
Learn how to create delicious nourishing meals using the Life Diet principles. The Life Diet is an eating and harvesting guideline that supports the optimal life of the plants we eat and how it affects the human body.

Seed-to-Seed Cycle
Learn how we grow edible plants from seeds using methods that support the plant’s full life cycle. You’ll join in seasonal tasks like sowing, planting, harvesting, and soil building to better understand our long-term food production system.

Schedule

Arrival Day:

3 PM: Check-In

3:30 PM: Snack & Refreshments

4-5 PM: Seed-To-Seed Cycle Workshop

5:30-7 PM: Life Diet Cooking Class

7 PM: Dinner

Evening: Relax & Personal Time

Next Day:

8 AM Breakfast

9-10 AM: Seed-to-Seed Cycle Workshop

11 AM: Check-Out or Stay & Repeat

Why We Offer This

We created the live-in experience to give people a way to see, learn, and participate in what we’re building here. STEP is a long-term project focused on edible reforestation, ecological repair and community living. We are creating practical ways to live in harmony with nature, and sharing that knowledge through real, hands-on experience. This short stay lets you step inside the project and try it out for yourself.

What Your Donation Supports

Your minimum $100 USD / Q750 donation covers your accommodations, plant-based meals, and educational sessions — and also supports the long-term growth of our NGO.

Your donation helps us:

Expand our accommodation capacity.
Make essential property improvements.
Fund our reforestation project: purchasing clear-cut land to grow edible plants and build a functioning community.

Every donation goes directly toward practical, on-the-ground work to improve the site and move the project forward.

Where We Are
Between San Jose & San Pedro, Petén, Guatemala—about a 40-minute drive from Flores.

Getting Here

We can arrange private transportation by land or boat—just let us know in advance. This service is available upon request and provided by a third party at their set rate.
Other options like chicken buses, shuttles, and tuk-tuks are also readily available.

FAQs

Unavailable Dates

Some of the following nights are unavailable for booking due to our
Ecstatic Dance Fun-d Raisers
every full and dark moon.
You're welcome to join us there!

2025

Sep: 7, 8, 14, 21, 22, 28

Oct: 6, 7, 13, 20, 21, 27

Nov: 4, 5, 11, 19, 20, 26

Dec: 4, 5, 11, 19, 20, 26