Natural Building
Help raise a real, permitted natural home — designed to be beautiful, low-energy, and quietly at home in the desert.
Yucca Valley · Joshua Tree · California
Meaningful friendships through meaningful work.
A desert gathering place for natural building, low-water food forests, and the quiet art of living more beautifully in a dry land.
We are not building an intentional community — we are growing a place where people, land, and friendship regenerate together.
The heart of itThis project brings together natural building, permaculture, desert regeneration, shared meals, and human connection. The goal is not only to build a house or plant a food forest, but to create an experience where people leave with more than they came for: more knowledge, more confidence, more connection, and more hope.
What we do here
Three kinds of work, one way of living
Desert Permaculture
Build soil, harvest water, and grow low-water food forests that show what abundance can look like in a dry place.
Friendship & Mutual Aid
Shared work and shared meals build real connection — a network of people supporting one another’s projects and lives.
The flagship project
Sun Mesa Desert Regeneration
A personal, land-based project in the Yucca Valley & Joshua Tree area — a place to build a natural home, create resilient desert landscapes, host workshops, and connect the people who care about land, food, and beauty.
Most people look at the desert and see limitation. Yuka sees possibility.
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Greening the Mojave
Water, soil, shade, and shelter — designed with the desert, not against it.
Why the desert
The desert teaches patience, respect, and intelligent design.
What can abundance look like in a dry place?
How can homes be beautiful, low-impact, and comfortable?
How can one small project become a seed for many others?
About Yuka
From Findhorn to the Mojave
Yuka Tabushi is a permaculture practitioner trained through Geoff Lawton and Zaytuna Farm, with years of independent study and hands-on regenerative design. Her path began in 2014 at Findhorn in Scotland and led — by way of Australia — to the high desert of California.
“I am not trying to become a permaculture teacher. My strength is connecting people.”
Meet Yuka →
Ways to take part
Come build, plant, learn, and connect
Some people come for a weekend workshop. Some stay longer through work exchange. Some become friends for life.
Join a workshop
Learn natural building, desert permaculture, and food-forest design with experienced teachers.
Work exchange
Trade a fair morning of work for a place to stay, shared meals, and time in the desert.
Offer a skill
Teachers, builders, gardeners, and healers are welcome to share what they know.
Collaborate
Start a food forest of your own — and support one another’s regenerative projects.