Rancho Santa Elena

rancho santa elena
Interior Design / Sculpture / Landscaping / Edible Forest / Agroforestry System / Shiitake Production

san jerónimo, huasca hidalgo

Rancho Santa Elena is an old renovated pulque hacienda. The surrounding land was very impoverished by intensive agriculture and deforestation. This project has mainly been involved in articulating all the landscaping with other edible systems and gradually diversifying a very large pear monoculture orchard.

These include a biointensive vegetable garden, as well as other annual crops in between the pear rows; a young forest garden, Shiitake cultivation, chickens, rotating milpa fields and the regeneration of native forest.

Weaving the gardens are ponds, sculptures and other architectural features for example: a covered swimming pool and the interior design of rooms.