by Chad Wallace | Aug 15, 2026 | Uncategorized
It’s late summer, and I’m sitting on the porch at Spirit Mountain with a cup of coffee. Not just any coffee, but coffee grown on the slopes of Spirit Mountain, directly in front of me. I find myself thinking about when Krista and I lived in Santo Domingo in the 90s....
by Chad Wallace | Jul 15, 2026 | Uncategorized
When Krista and I moved to the Dominican Republic in 1995, we were fresh out of college and in our early twenties. We came to help build a Young Life camp. We certainly did not have a grand plan for what the next thirty years would look like. But we did have belief....
by Chad Wallace | May 15, 2026 | Uncategorized
There was a moment a few weeks ago that has stayed with me. The coffee in my mug had long since cooled. The last light of the day was slipping behind the ridgeline, painting the mountains in those impossible shades of blue and gold that never quite make it into a...
by Chad Wallace | Apr 21, 2026 | Uncategorized
Let’s start with a slightly uncomfortable truth: The way we’ve been farming for the last 75 years is… not going great. Industrial agriculture has done an impressive job of feeding billions of people. Credit where credit is due. But it has also come with a cost—soil...
by Chad Wallace | Mar 15, 2026 | Uncategorized
Lately, we have noticed something. More and more people are looking at Estancia Natura and Spirit Mountain and saying, “You know… this makes a lot more sense than the standard retirement plan.” And honestly, we get it. When the world feels expensive, noisy,...
