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Patch of Heaven Sanctuary is a 20-acre non-profit reforestation preserve located in the Redland Agricultural Area in the heart of Miami. We provide sanctuary to trees, bees, birds, butterflies, bats, buildings (historic) and beings (the human kind). We are a living, learning campus where neuroscience meets Nature through mindful awareness. It is our hope that as humans feel and sense Nature directly, decisions of care and actions of love for our planet will result.

Patch’s mission is to reconnect Humans to Nature one mindful walk, one tree and one breath at a time. Humans are part of the Web of Life and we hope to help heal the current imbalanced view and re-establish what indigenous wisdom calls “ayni”, or right relationship with all living beings.

Eco-wellness begins with acknowledging the climate anxiety many of us are experiencing, learning ways to turn toward the challenges with open-hearted awareness, resource ourselves with inner resilience, explore the antidotes that are available and take individual action as possible.

Envisioned by a family of committed nature lovers and philanthropists in 2008 with the first 10 acre purchase of the original Matheson family summer forest dwelling, this “hidden gem” preserve is a 15-year reforestation & conservation project that expanded to include a neighboring 10 acre shade container nursery that was converted into the 20 total acre nature preserve it is today, conceived, planted and cared for by landscape designers and environmental horticulturists Fred Hubbard and Roberto Del Cid and their team.

Patch is also a sanctioned and recognized agro-forestry and agro-tourism site, which grows and harvests cacao, coffee, vanilla and honey onsite. Indigenous growing practices include use of the overstory, rather than mono-cropping, enhancing the biosphere’s diversity and ensuring success.

We believe in the healing power of Nature and our preserve is a mystical, harmonious environment synonymous with an Earthly paradise of a sacred refuge isolated from the world. Our efforts to rewild and regenerate, preserve and protect are recognized with our designation as a wildlife preserve and historic site.

Now also a wellness campus activating Nature to heal humans through reconnection and mindful immersion experiences centers Patch as an Ambassador of living beings and systems.

We humans tend to care for what we love. May all of us become #NatureLovers and create a wave of mutual healing for all in the Web of Life.

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