NAWAYA - Ancient Future Labs
A land-based demonstration and learning site for regenerative food systems, creative practice, and nonextractive local economies.
Nawaya Ancient Future Labs is a learning site, community hub, and demonstration space in active development. It exists to make regenerative practices accessible, shared, and rooted in place — not theoretical.
Here, land stewardship, food production, creative practice, and cooperative economics are taught through hands-on experience and real-world application. The site supports people in learning how to grow food, make goods, share skills, and participate in nonextractive ways of working together.
This is not a finished campus. It is a living site in process — designed to grow slowly, responsibly, and in relationship with community and land.
Nawaya Ancient Future Labs is the physical site where the Nawaya Village vision becomes tangible. Developed and operated by Nawaya, LLC, the Labs serve as a place to learn, practice, and gather — stewarding land while cultivating skills, relationships, and regenerative livelihoods in community.
What is Nawaya
Ancient Future Labs?
A Place to Learn, Build, & Gather
Nawaya Labs functions as a community learning hub, offering seasonal, hands-on opportunities to learn through doing. Education here is practical, relational, and grounded in lived experience rather than formal classrooms.
Learning and gathering may include:
Regenerative gardening and food production
Herbalism, preservation, and value-added food skills
Creative and cultural practices (making, craft, DIY)
Natural building & disaster preparedness
Cooperative and circular economic models
Community workdays and shared land stewardship
Intergenerational skill-sharing and community meals
Programs emerge in rhythm with the land, the seasons, and collective capacity - prioritizing depth, care, and long-term stewardship over scale.
All activities are offered with accessibility, care, and nonextractive values in mind.
Hands-on learning and skill development
Pathways toward sustainable livelihoods and cooperative enterprise
Community gatherings and shared workdays
Food and herb production for local use
Value-added goods (teas, ferments, preserves)
Creative and service-based microbusiness incubation
Volunteer and apprenticeship pathways
Quiet refuge for reflection and reconnection
What This Place Supports
Where We Are Now
Phase 1 (completed):
land secured
partnerships established
initial demolition completed
auxiliary structures built (bell tent deck, tiny “cabinette”)
Phase 2 (in progress):
renovations and site preparation
regenerative agricultural landscape installation
irrigation, soil building, raised beds, and perennials
compost systems and pollinator habitat
wash and processing infrastructure
foundational spaces for gathering, teaching, and making
This phase transforms the land into a usable community hub, not just a concept.
Nawaya Ancient Future Labs is currently in Phase 2 of its strategic plan — focused on making the site functional, welcoming, and ready to host learning and community activity.
Building the Community Hub
Soul & Soil Project (501c3) serves as the nonprofit land steward and ecological design partner for Nawaya Ancient Future Labs, working in collaboration with Nawaya, LLC.
With experience operating a successful polyculture farm and multiple community gardens, Soul & Soil guides the design, installation, and long-term care of the site’s regenerative ecosystem.
This stewardship ensures that learning, gathering, and production remain grounded in ecological health and food sovereignty.
Land Stewardship & Care
Nawaya Ancient Future Labs is not yet open for regular public visitation. Learning opportunities, volunteer days, and gatherings will be announced as the site becomes ready.
Nawaya Ancient Future Labs is being built through collective effort, care, and shared belief in regenerative futures. We welcome supporters, collaborators, and community members to stay connected as the site comes to life.