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title: "Garden Progress - Huachuma Foundation"
description: "What is growing on the terraced hillside at Taray, photographed through 2026, the four phases the garden was set out in, and what comes next."
url: https://huachumafoundation.org/projects/garden-progress/
updated: 2026-10-30
language: en
format: a Markdown copy of the page at the url above
---

The Taray Preservation Garden

# Garden Progress

What is growing on the hillside at Taray, and what the next planting needs.

[Donate](https://huachumafoundation.org/donate/) [Adopt a Cactus](https://huachumafoundation.org/sponsor-a-cactus/)

![A person crouching to firm the soil around a newly planted Huachuma cutting, rows of young plants and stone rings across the slope behind](https://huachumafoundation.org/media/firming-the-soil-around-a-new-cutting-16x9-800.jpg)

## Taking Root the garden now

The cuttings planted the year before have taken root and begun to grow.

Several hundred Huachuma of many varieties are in the ground, and more go in as the terraces fill. Miguel Mendiburu tends what is planted there.

[The Taray Garden](https://huachumafoundation.org/projects/taray/)

Every cutting that takes root here is one more Huachuma growing where it is needed.

![A person crouching over a newly planted Huachuma cutting, placing a pale river stone beside it, rows of plantings running back up the slope](https://huachumafoundation.org/media/setting-a-stone-beside-a-new-cutting-4x5-800.jpg)

## The Plan four phases, 2024

The land, the terraces and the planting.

1. Done

   ### The Land

   Secured first, in the summer of 2024.
2. Done

   ### Terraces and Walls

   The hillside is terraced and walled to protect what is planted.

   ![Dozens of young Huachuma cuttings standing in red earth across a terraced slope, with the cut bank rising behind them](https://huachumafoundation.org/media/taray-garden-cuttings-across-the-slope-16x9-high-800.jpg)
3. Where we are now

   ### Planting

   The vision is five thousand, which is what the hillside will hold.

   ![Two people working the ground with hand tools among rows of young Huachuma cuttings, a green hillside rising behind them](https://huachumafoundation.org/media/planting-huachuma-cuttings-two-people-16x9-low-800.jpg)
4. Still to come

   ### Education Center

   A place for the community to gather and learn. Where it will be is not settled yet.

## The Named Stones adopted plants

Plants on this hillside carry a river stone at the base, painted with the name the plant was given and set in a ring of rocks.

![A young Huachuma cactus in stony red earth with a river stone at its base painted with the word Unity](https://huachumafoundation.org/media/adopted-cactus-with-unity-stone-16x9-800.jpg) ![The base of a young Huachuma plant with a painted river stone beside it, a second planting ringed with stones at the edge of the frame, in stony red earth](https://huachumafoundation.org/media/adopted-cacti-with-stone-rings-16x9-800.jpg) ![Looking down at a young Huachuma cutting in dark soil ringed with a circle of stones](https://huachumafoundation.org/media/a-planting-ringed-with-stones-from-above-16x9-800.jpg)

## What Comes Next what donations pay for

In the ground

### The Next Planting

Money goes to the remaining build out of the garden, development of the hillside, new cactus, and ongoing care of what is already planted.

[Adopt a Cactus](https://huachumafoundation.org/sponsor-a-cactus/)

The fourth phase

### An Education Center

We have a vision of a center in the valley, and we are putting that prayer out now to see what comes.

[The Education Center](https://huachumafoundation.org/projects/peru-hq/)

## Plant One Here Taray, Sacred Valley

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[Adopt a Cactus](https://huachumafoundation.org/sponsor-a-cactus/)