The Community GardenTrips & fieldwork
The Community GardenTrips & fieldwork
A grassroots cultural nonprofit
Small-group journeys to living cultures — and the language books, archives, and field projects your trip helps carry.
Why we travel
What you spend on a trip goes into language books, archives, and field projects — and back to the communities who host us.
See where it goes →Where we go
Come as a guest and a learner — ancient places, living artists, family tables, ceremony. You leave knowing what your trip helped keep alive.
Göbekli Tepe, Karahan Tepe, Harran, and village life across the region — with local guides.
Ancient sites, Oaxaca artisans, food, and ceremony — journeys shaped with local partners.
The Sacred Valley, the Amazon, language and education projects, and artisan partnerships.
Cultural journeys and documentation, guided by local leadership.
Travel with us
Small-group and private trips through Mexico, Peru, Papua, and Turkey — shaped with the guides, artists, and families behind our fieldwork. Your journey helps keep it going.
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Made by hand
One-of-a-kind textiles and art, made by the artists and communities we partner with. Every purchase sends its profit straight back into cultural preservation — with the makers.
Proof
Everything here is real and named — a place, a person, a number you can check. Our fundraisers are public and our IRS filings are on record, so any dollar traces back to the ground it landed on.
Home repairs, heaters, blankets, mattresses, and daily essentials after the 2023 earthquake.
The founding fundraiser helped a child from Urubamba reach specialists in Lima.
A children's story in English, Spanish, and Shipibo, with an interactive reader.
Recorded with named speakers along the Ucayali, built alongside a growing dictionary. In production.
An open-air art school for children in Libertad, in the Peruvian Amazon.
Live sites
Where it began
The Community Garden began after a medical fundraiser for Haviv, a little girl from Urubamba. People answered quickly, and that first act of trust became the foundation for everything since — the trips, the books, the archives, and the field projects we run today.
Field notes
A few times a season: new journeys, field updates, books, and where your support went. No spam — unsubscribe anytime.
Come with us
Plan a journey, support a book, or fund a field project — and follow exactly where it goes.
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