Living Ground is a regenerative, soil-to-plate project in southern Ecuador where gardens, food, natural products, education, workshops, stays, and community life come together as one living system, restoring land, nourishing people, and reconnecting life from the ground up.

Building Living Ground in Ecuador through soil restoration, medicinal plants, microbiome education, self reliance, gardens, food, and ecological healing.
VISIT OUR GARDENS, STORE, CAFE, AND SECRET GARDEN — OUR GARDENS ARE OUR LIFE AND OUR TEACHING TOOL. HOSTEL AND EDUCATION CENTER FOR ECO-TOURISM, APPRENTICESHIPS, AND VOLUNTEERS.
Where We Are
Leisha’s Education Books
Wild plants hold the wisdom of the earth, offering food, medicine, and resilience. This book teaches you how to see them again.
Walk through gardens, forests, and forgotten paths. Learn the uses, folklore, and beauty of wild plants. Rekindle your connection to nature’s generosity, one leaf at a time.
Each page invites you to honor the soil, the plants, and yourself. Discover how the smallest weeds are teachers and healers waiting patiently to be noticed.
Ecuador Plant Guide
The Living Ground of Ecuador explores the wild plants, medicinal herbs, food plants, trees, mushrooms, and ecological relationships woven throughout Ecuador’s landscapes. Rooted in fifteen years of observation and lived experience, the book connects soil biology, traditional plant knowledge, microbiomes, food systems, and self reliance. More than a field guide, it is a reflection on rebuilding relationship with land, plants, and living systems.
The Live Blood Guide
This guide reveals the hidden story within your blood, teaching you how to observe, understand, and restore your inner terrain through holistic, microbe-friendly practices.
The Soil Microbiome
Explore the unseen life beneath your feet, learning how soil microbes create fertility, resilience, and health for plants, animals, and humans in a thriving ecosystem.
Living Ground is a self reliance team who are building houses, landscaping, creating dream spaces
Existing & New Gardens & Landscaping
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