My kids spent their winter holiday at Villa Santa Cruz luxury beachfront resort on the Pacific Ocean coastline in Baja California, Mexico. Villa Santa Cruz is spread across more than 20 acres of breathtaking landscape and a pristine beach.
They enjoyed staying at this eco-friendly resort!.
The 5 star resort has an organic herb and vegetable garden that provides fresh ingredients daily for their bar and restaurant.
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Information about their sustainability practices from their website
At the core of Villa Santa Cruz’s mission are two guiding principles: sustainability and community collaboration. We are deeply committed to minimizing our environmental footprint by implementing eco-friendly practices throughout our operations. We also prioritize partnerships with small, local companies and artists, celebrating the craftsmanship and creativity of our community. Through these efforts, we aim to create a space that honors both the environment and the vibrant local talent that makes our region special.
The health of our planet is at a tipping point. At Villa Santa Cruz, we are eager to be part of the solution. As an eco-friendly hotel in Todos Santos, we have reworked many of our practices to implement sustainable and thoughtful changes, with an emphasis on eliminating plastics, diverting waste out of our local landfill and shopping local. As a larger business in a small community, we feel responsible to protect the beauty of Todos Santos – a place that has given us so much.
Farm to Table
By growing our produce on-site, we reduce carbon emissions and food waste as our ingredients are not harvested until needed. We supply our hotel, Caracara, and The Green Room with staples like tomatoes, carrots, cucumber, zucchini, onions, garlic, melons in addition to Mexican favorites, such as tomatillos, jalapenos, and a variety of chiles. Even our cocktails are farm-to-table, garnished with herbs, such as basil and rosemary as well as sweet pineapples and mangoes. Reducing food waste is one of the newest tools of being an eco-friendly hotel, especially in Todos Santos.
No Food Waste
According to the UN World Food Program, one-third of all food produced becomes “food waste” before it is consumed. However, in our kitchen, food scraps are not wasted. Scraps are used to feed our employee’s pigs and coffee grounds go out to our gardens.
Diverting Garden Waste
Almost 60% of the waste from Todos Santos that ends up in the local dump is organic matter. This leads to combustion and causes fires and fumes, severely compromising air quality. To combat this, we compost here on-site to keep our garden waste out of the dump.
Plastic-free is our goal
We have taken considerable steps to go as plastic-free as possible, switching over to bulk amenity dispensers for toiletry products, replacing disposable cups at the pool with a longer lasting version, and using hydrosoluble trash liners that are 100% compostable.
The kids toured the gardens and took a lot of photos for me to share. I'll post more soon to show some of the crops growing in the garden.
