Rice in chinampas
Rice in wetland systems inspired by ancestral agriculture. Water, soil and food in one design.
Panama · since 2018
We grow health. We close the loop.
Panama Organic Farms is the home of Hierbawena — an educational platform for ecological agriculture — and Residuos Dinámicos, the company born to make our own compost and tackle Panama’s organic waste problem.
2018growing and teaching without poisons
2.4 tof organic waste recovered each week
3problems, one cycle: waste, inputs and soil
5teachers of regenerative theory in the school
Who we are
Farmers with soil under our nails.
Hierbawena practices organic agriculture. Poisons in food are an aberration — a one-way road to disease. Our work is to assist natural processes so they create wealth and health.
We develop living, biodiverse ecosystems. We grow nutritious food. We cultivate health, wellbeing and harmony — intelligent, beautiful and functional.
The ecosystem
An educational platform. A company that closes the cycle.
Hierbawena teaches how to manage a farm. Residuos Dinámicos operates the composting that farm needs — and that the city still sends to landfill.
Educational platform
Hierbawena
A practical university of soil, water and farm recipes. For farmers, youth, children and agronomists.
Enter Hierbawena
Circular enterprise
Residuos Dinámicos
We collect commercial organics and turn them into bocashi. Born from the need to make our own fertilizer.
See the company
Now on the farm
Vegetables, fruit, tubers and birds
Crops fed by biofactory compost. Birdwatching tours. Later: cabins, a field school and a restaurant from this land only.
Enter the farm
In the field
Projects already in the ground.
From the original hierbawena.com site and work in Coquira, Darién, chinampas and the city.
Permaculture in Coquira
Perennial gardens and forage for 200+ animals. Food agroforestry at the Coquira Soil Project.
Organic honey
Honey harvest in a living landscape. Bees are part of the ecosystem, not decoration.
Reforestation in Darién
Restoring degraded land on one of the continent’s most important biological frontiers.
Manifesto
True intelligence is not creating waste, and growing healthy food.
Agriculture should recycle the nutrients now thrown away. We work with nature to meet needs, solve problems and enrich society.