Hampi Mama is Quechua for “Medicine Mother”
Hampi Mama is a Botanical Sanctuary nestled in the town of Huaran in the Sacred Valley of Peru,
led by Quechua women to share traditional highland knowledge of medicinal plants, restore Andean landscapes,
and foster healthy communities through regenerative practices.
led by Quechua women to share traditional highland knowledge of medicinal plants, restore Andean landscapes,
and foster healthy communities through regenerative practices.
What We Do
REGENERATIVE LAND PRACTICES
We support the land to regenerate through Botanical medicines. We focus on botanical medicines and superfoods because Quechua Herbalists dedicated to this path are quite rare to find these days, and our local partners want to spread health in their community by passing on specialized knowledge of Andean Highland medicines and therapies. The sanctuary models the following regenerative land practices:
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FEMALE-LED INITIATIVES
Research show that when women stand in roles of decision making, they make choices that increase the health of their community, the health of ecosystem, and the health of the next generation. We are partnered with Quechua women who have a wish to bring well-being to their community. Together we bring complimentary skills to strengthen locally-led initiatives. Organizational Structure: The phenomenal women leading Hampi Mama want to ensure their project generates true health in their community and continues beyond them to benefit future generations. They asked for support with professional skills that allow their knowledge to flourish in the modern world and to be connected to a broader network for knowledge and resources exchange. They want to share traditional wisdom that brings benefit to modern lifestyles, while learning from practices that work in other contexts around the world. |
INTERCULTURAL EXCHANGE
Exchange education. When we share, we learn from each other. The botanical educational gardens will continue to host an array of organic farming workshops, peer-to-peer farmer exchanges, and intercultural gatherings to pass on traditional knowledge. We are honored to be partners with an array of excellent educators including Permaculturalist Penny Livingston, Quechua Ecologist Mauro Escalante, Maestros of the Q’ero Nation, and tribal leaders from all across the Americas. OUR DREAM TO BUILD A TEMPLE: Our aspiration is to build a temple on site that serves as an intercultural gathering space. Our project engages with a diverse network of local farmers, international educators, local authorities, market partners, intercultural neighbors, multi-watershed allies, mentors in holistic management and regenerative design, technology partners, ecosystem allies and tribal leaders. Hampi Mama is committed to strengthening partnerships across local, regional, and global networks. |
Where we are on the timetable
OUR STORY
Since 2013, we have worked in deep partnership with the Q’ero Nation, participating in four major global gatherings, three inter-tribal councils, over three dozen international events, and hosting more than 20 retreats and 50 intercultural workshops and ceremonies. In 2017 we sponsored the purchase of a family-sized farm in the Sacred Valley of Peru. In deep partnership with Quechua medicine woman Leticia Guevarra, “Hampi Mama” was born. Step by step we began designing and building an Eco-Cultural Sanctuary that models regenerative land practices, preserves traditional botanical medicines, serves as an intercultural meeting and learning space, and a sacred site for traditional ceremonies. This is a promising beacon for ecological, social and economic regeneration, restoring barren land, enriching impoverished conditions, and reviving gems of ancestral knowledge.
In 2020, the entire world went through a reckoning with the pandemic. In our rural Andean community, we were called upon as “cultural interpreters” between the local indigenous farming communities and the foreigner population to address access to food. Together with our neighbors, we supported the emergence of a closed-loop system to deliver emergency food baskets via horseback to over 300 families at 15,000 feet in the mountains and coordinated over 20 meetings and mutual learning sessions on regenerative farming. In the process, inspiration to create long-term regenerative food systems, restore essential landscapes, and revive ancestral knowledge strengthened partnerships and collaborations along our broader watershed.
In 2020, the entire world went through a reckoning with the pandemic. In our rural Andean community, we were called upon as “cultural interpreters” between the local indigenous farming communities and the foreigner population to address access to food. Together with our neighbors, we supported the emergence of a closed-loop system to deliver emergency food baskets via horseback to over 300 families at 15,000 feet in the mountains and coordinated over 20 meetings and mutual learning sessions on regenerative farming. In the process, inspiration to create long-term regenerative food systems, restore essential landscapes, and revive ancestral knowledge strengthened partnerships and collaborations along our broader watershed.
Your thoughtful donations support:
- Stable salaries for Quechua Medicine Women
- Living library of traditional botanical medicines
- Building an Ecological Temple to host intercultural gatherings