Sources & coverage — MEZZO.EARTH

MEZZO.EARTH is a discovery index of communities, shared living and regenerative projects. This edition contains 554 approximate mapped places and 51 unmapped resources. Updated 23 October 2026. Coverage is strongest in Europe, with entries across six inhabited continents. Inclusion is not an endorsement, confirmation of current activity, or an invitation to visit.

Latin America & the Guianas · October 23

New entries cover Indigenous community tourism in Guyana and Suriname, Palikur knowledge transmission in French Guiana, communities in southern Brazil and Colombia, and community life and regenerative learning in Peru. Accommodation listings are discovery leads; each included place has a reviewed project or partner account. Pins remain approximate locality references.

Worldwide additions · October 18

175 additional places across 46 countries bring together working farms, seed-saving projects, natural-building communities, rural learning centres and traditional villages. Examples include Blagodatnoe in Russia, the Chikukwa villages in Zimbabwe, Ghana Permaculture Institute, Cabiokid in the Philippines, Silimalombu in Indonesia and Nashira in Colombia. This follows the October 16 addition of the two Taos Earthship communities.

Each new record has a reviewed project or partner account and a separately attributed map reference. Some pins indicate a nearby town, village or district rather than the project itself; each card states its precision. Unresolved locations, restored archive websites and compromised domains were held back or replaced with a reliable project-partner link. Emerging villages and retreat venues are described as such. No sovereignty assessment is implied.

Afterlee Ecovillage

Afterlee Ecovillage is a developing cooperative project near Kyogle, Australia. Its own website describes 700 acres and up to 65 homesites; shared infrastructure is being developed. The map uses a rounded Afterlee locality reference, not an arrival point. The Wild Minds award shown in the discovery lead has not been independently matched to this project.

Where the places come from

Romania · October 18 additions

Five mapped places join the atlas: EcoVillage Firiteaz, Aurora Community, Family of Consciousness, Curtea Culorilor and OilRight. Nine broader resources appear under Directories & networks: Nomad Ecovillage, Eco Maramureș, Colinele Transilvaniei, Ținutul Zimbrului, Țara Dornelor, Pădurea Craiului, WWOOF Romania, Agramonia and Rewilding Romania. Each entry links its sources and distinguishes farms, residential communities, businesses and regional networks. Stanciova and Gulia remain research leads rather than current verified community listings.

October 15 expansion

125 additional mapped places and three networks broaden this edition to 303 places. The selection includes working farms, ecological learning centres, established communities and rural crafts across North and Central America, Africa, Eastern Europe, Japan, China and Nepal. It includes Kokopelli and the Vaour–Gaillac area, Kovcheg in Russia, and Norlha in Ritoma on the Tibetan Plateau in Gansu, China.

Descriptions come from individual project accounts, selected community profiles, and public local sources. They are not independent certifications. Unresolved locations, known closures, unrelated websites and weaker-fit property developments were held back. Most new pins are rounded town, village or district references, not property boundaries. Open a card for its specific coordinate source and precision.

Source	What is included
Living Atlas / Heart of Ecovillages	116 original ecological community records with source-provided, privacy-rounded coordinates, plus 32 Americas additions checked against original project websites. The newer additions retain explicitly labeled locality points where precise coordinates are unavailable. Conflicting positions were excluded; Earthaven and Las Cañadas use the centers of their own published maps. Descriptions are abridged. Method and licence.
Wikidata	14 ecovillage records, linked to their knowledge-base items. Coordinates do not confirm current visitor access. CC0 data.
Agartha	Nine selected places. Brief descriptions were written from official project websites; approximate points come from the public directory. Entries with observed geographical conflicts were excluded.
Lucky Futures	Three ecological learning and community projects. Official websites were checked for project descriptions; directory coordinates remain approximate.
Original featured places	Tamera, Dancing Rabbit, Auroville and Findhorn. Links lead to the original websites. Dancing Rabbit's approximate point was corrected against Wikidata.

© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0: public locality reference coordinates are attributed separately in each record. Where available, projects’ own published maps supply the reference. No private host addresses were collected.

Directories that remain links

Terrenity is our starting directory of directories. We also reviewed GEN, FIC, WWOOF, Workaway, Eutopia, Coliving.com, BioHubs, Lives of Tribes and Solarpunk List. Their inclusion as network resources does not mean all their listings appear here.

Some sources provide no reusable public coordinate export, require membership, or contain conflicting positions. BioHubs was unavailable during this review. Solarpunk List's feed included conflicting duplicate coordinates, so it remains a discovery link. Private host addresses and booking availability are not collected. Follow the original platforms for those experiences.

The villages beyond this map

This atlas records selected projects, not the world’s rural settlements. For scale, India alone recorded 597,608 inhabited villages in its 2011 census, a figure also reproduced in a 2016 parliamentary answer. “Hundreds of thousands” describes the much larger world beyond our selection; it is not a count of ecovillages or communities offering places to newcomers. Village definitions and census dates vary.

Our invitation is to learn with existing communities and respect the knowledge, livelihoods and choices of the people already there.

Geographic linework

White coastlines, country borders, regional boundaries and dashed ocean divisions use Natural Earth public-domain data, simplified and bundled locally. Regional lines appear as you zoom in. Dashed country borders retain disputed or indefinite classifications; ocean divisions describe geographic areas, not maritime jurisdictions. Dataset details.

Keyboard recordings

The search animation uses Holy Panda switch press and release recordings by Thomas Lai, from kbsim, under the MIT license. Samples are served locally, with playback filtering and variations in timing and intensity. Recording credits.

Reuse and attribution

Community data adapted from Living Atlas by Heart of Ecovillages / Regen Community Tools, original dataset dated 2 October 2026 and Americas expansion retrieved 13 October 2026, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. MEZZO.EARTH selected records, shortened descriptions, assigned categories and continents, and added researched records. Editorial summaries and adapted Living Atlas data retain CC BY-SA 4.0; individual Wikidata facts remain CC0. OpenStreetMap locality coordinates retain their separate ODbL 1.0 attribution, documented per record.

Source status labels describe the source's assessment, not independent verification by MEZZO.EARTH. Open each ray or directory card for its source and coordinate precision. Always check the original project for current details and visiting arrangements.

Per-place source notes & map credits

Discovery directories help us find places. Project websites lead the cards; directory profiles remain useful where they add context. Original dataset attribution, licences and location sources are retained below and in the downloadable data.

Schweibenalp — Centre of Unity

Every ray has a source.