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The Taray Preservation Garden

Garden Progress

What is growing on the hillside at Taray, and what the next planting needs.

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A person crouching to firm the soil around a newly planted Huachuma cutting, rows of young plants and stone rings across the slope behind

Taking Root the garden now

The Foundation is thrilled with the progress on the hillside at Taray.

The cuttings planted the year before have shown significant growth. They have taken root and they have begun to grow.

Several hundred Huachuma of many varieties are in the ground, and more go in as the terraces fill. Miguel Mendiburu tends what is planted there.

The Taray Garden

A person crouching over a newly planted Huachuma cutting, placing a pale river stone beside it, rows of plantings running back up the slope

Every cutting that takes root here is one more Huachuma growing where it is needed.

The Plan four phases, 2024

the planting the terraces the hillside
The land, the terraces and the planting.

  1. Done

    The Land

    Secured first. Everything since has happened on it.

  2. Done

    Terraces and Walls

    The hillside is terraced and walled to protect what is planted.

    Dozens of young Huachuma cuttings standing in red earth across a terraced slope, with the cut bank rising behind them

  3. Where we are now

    Planting

    Several hundred Huachuma are in the ground and more go in as the terraces fill. The vision is five thousand, which is what the hillside will hold.

    Two people working the ground with hand tools among rows of young Huachuma cuttings, a green hillside rising behind them

  4. Still to come

    Education Center

    A place for the community to gather and learn. Where it will be is not settled yet.

The Named Stones adopted plants

Plants on this hillside carry a river stone at the base, painted with the name the plant was given and set in a ring of rocks.

A young Huachuma cactus in stony red earth with a river stone at its base painted with the word Unity The base of a young Huachuma plant with a painted river stone beside it, a second planting ringed with stones at the edge of the frame, in stony red earth Looking down at a young Huachuma cutting in dark soil ringed with a circle of stones

What Comes Next what donations pay for

In the ground

The Next Planting

Money goes to the remaining build out of the garden, development of the hillside, new cactus, and ongoing care of what is already planted. Planting continues, and the terraces have room for five thousand as they fill.

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The fourth phase

An Education Center

A community education center is the fourth part of the plan the Foundation set out in 2024, after the land, the terraces and the planting. Where it will be is not settled yet.

The Education Center

Plant One Here Taray, Sacred Valley

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