About us.
We’re here to create a softer way of walking planet Earth - and we don’t mind walking first.
- Mette Helbæk & Flemming Hansen
This is our story.
For the last 2 decades we have spent all our creative energy and most of our waking hours creating businesses that would help make the World a better place. From farm-to-table restaurants in Copenhagen, Denmark to a local-only vegetable shop chain, over a herbalism brand to our most recent project Stedsans, a nature resort in rural Sweden. Right now we are opening a restaurant and small hotel in San Pedro la Laguna, Guatemala, where we focus on local craftsmanship and bringing organic food to the table. All our projects have and had a big focus on communicating our thoughts and ideas to our guests and costumers.
We left Sweden in late 2024 as we were worn out by trying to create something meaningful and beautiful in a country where bureaucracy and high taxes make forging new paths almost impossible. We realized that while many talk about the need for reforms and new sustainable solutions for people and planet - only very few are actually willing to do the work it takes to be the change, and those who try don’t have good odds of succeeding. Not in the part of the world, we are from, anyway. The systems honor greed and narcissism, while integrity and the highest good for all are seen as naive, at its best. We had our own very hard encounters with ‘the system’ - incidents that almost broke us down both physically, financially and mentally. Many still live under the illusion that our governments and leaders want us well - but once you get to experience the dark sides of the system for yourself, you know it’s all just a show to keep us in place. To have us keep producing and consuming to feed the never-satisfied entity that is big pharma, big war and big agro. We have spent half of our lives feeding this entity through the hundreds of workplaces we have created and the millions upon millions of kroner we have paid in taxes over our years as entrepreneurs (the media say we ‘fled from tax debt’, this is not true. We turned our back to a debt we thought was deeply unfair). Our precious gifts from the creator, our creativity and beating heart for Mother Earth and her well-being, have been poured into a destructive system. We woke up to see this clearly, when we just got too much.
When our souls started whispering about a move, we listened. And we have not regretted for a single moment. Since we left the ‘security’ of the Scandinavian system and found home by the shore of a magical lake in Central America - we have felt how our trust in our mission has come back at full strength. As our bodies and minds heal from decades of mind control, toxic environments and the stress of leading the Western lifestyle, we feel recharged and ready to do what we came here to do. Create the beautiful world our hearts believe is possible.
This is our mission.
We are here on this planet to create the lifestyle of the future. This is what we have always done, and it’s what we continue to do, probably until we take our last breath.
The lifestyle of the future is one where ancient wisdom and our new technologies merge to create a whole new plateau of how deliciously we can live on Earth. Where the needs of our body, mind and soul are respected, where all lifeforms are respected.
We look at what makes humans feel good and thrive, and we look at what makes all the eco-systems, we are a part of, do the same.
Both people and planet are undergoing a pretty wild metamorphosis during these years. As caterpillars turning into butterflies we and the planet are getting prepared for a life together that is beyond our wildest dreams. A world where fear, abuse of power, greed and control are replaced by love, respect and cooperation around the highest good for all forms of life. Where nature's resources, the air, the water, the plants, the trees, the animals and the micro-life in the soil, are honored for their ability to meet all our physical needs. Only a fool destroys what feeds him. Now that so many of us are no longer under the spell that this is the role of ‘the system’, we can start taking action to reverse some of the very severe damage we have been doing to our planet during this last century of madness and over-consumption. We will make it even better than it was before.
As humans we will take all the knowledge about regenerative farming, healing of our physical body, new clever technology, what foods make us thrive, breakthroughs in psychology and so on, and create a new era for humanity that some call New Earth.
We are ready to create Paradise on Earth.
And by ‘we’, we mean all of us. Because this is something we do together, by everyone choosing to believe in our power, our magic and our big hearts. When we love our neighbor, and our neighbor loves us back. When we all choose to serve our planet and our community, this reality is possible.
We know it is as we have seen it in countless visions. We have always lived in and created for the future. But we also know that at this point in time it’s not easy and it will take both work, courage, sacrifices and a willingness to take action.
If you read this far, we believe you are with us.
Welcome on board!
How to support our work.
Right now we are landing in our new home country after some really challenging years in Sweden. We have not brought anything with us. Exactly like when we moved to Sweden back in 2016, all we have is a really strong vision and desire to make a change.
One of the first things that hit us is a literal shit storm - a media storm based in lies spread by the mainstream media about how we worked with permaculture in our former project. It is very intense, very unfair - and a battle we are many who are taking at the moment.
While we have learned to trust the universe and its unwavering support for our work, we also do need all the help we can get in the physical realm, if we are to pull this off. We have very strong forces against us - it is not easy to create something new within the existing system.
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