Due to the current widespread misinformation, here are several ways to verify the validity of Summerland’s projects and volunteers. Beginning in January 1991, Rt. Rev. Pete "Pathfinder" Davis (1937-2017), founder of the Aquarian Tabernacle Church, gave 20 years of training to Jacquie and legal status to Summerland. In June 1994, notary Carol Garr notarized A Vow of Poverty (1) to Summerland signed by Jacqueline Zaleski and Donald Mackenzie. Lady Carol Garr, minister, is an Administrator of Mother Earth Ministries and a Registered Agent of Summerland. In 1995, Jacquie was awarded her Bachelor of Divinity from the Universal Brotherhood Movement. Oberon Zell Ravenheart, theologian and founder of The Church of All Worlds, has managed the legal status of Summerland since 2012. For decades, Summerland Volunteers have been strongly influenced by additional mentors and authors, including Rev. Michael Dowd (1958-2023), Post Doom.com, and Johanna Macy (1929-2025), an ecophilosopher and scholar of deep ecology, Work That Reconnects.org.
The four goals of this webpage are to (1) share the history of Summerland with the world, (2) enable two elderly female volunteer artists to supplement their Social Security pensions, and have the time to continue volunteering in Summerland projects. Both artists are over 75 years of age, slightly younger than when Grandma Moses was discovered. (3) Summerland is giving you a free eBook. And, finally, (4) We hope that during your visit to this site, you will look at the work by both artists.
Please pass this page on to eco-conscious individuals who may appreciate our free book and nature-inspired artistic expressions.
(1) A legal vow of poverty, often associated with religious orders, is a formal commitment to relinquish personal ownership and control of material possessions, both present and future. It's not just a personal choice but also has legal and social implications within the context of the religious community.
U.S. 501@3 Non-Profit Religious Order Est. 1992
Palm Bay, Florida, North America
Tucson, Arizona, North America
Cajones, Guanajuato, Central Mexico
Malacatos, Loja, Ecuador, South America
Dedicated to
Environmental Education related to respecting our Mother Earth
Assisting non-profit organizations that help economically marginalized people
Eco-sustainable living mentors, who are volunteer teachers.
Educating marginalized people via permaculture gardening. Our history includes equine therapy, swimming, & sailing.
Contacts
Corporate President: Rev. Jacqueline Zaleski Mackenzie, Ph.D.
email: drjacquiemackenzie@gmail.com or jzm@arizona.edu
Whatsapp +593 99 144 4166.
Active Volunteer Members of
https://climatepsychologyinternational.org/
https://meetings.lifering.org/meetings/
The mission of the Church of All Worlds (CAW) is to evolve a network of information, mythology, and experience that provides a context and stimulus for reawakening Gaia and reuniting Her children through a tribal community dedicated to responsible stewardship and the evolution of consciousness.
Summerland
Summerland Monastery, Inc., CAW, focuses on assisting people worldwide in learning how to protect our planet's resources. Three semi-retired Summerland administrators serve as mentors to inquiries, drawing on their decades-long experience of living an ecological lifestyle. One volunteer continues to reside in Cajones. Two Summerland volunteers are currently living in Ecuador, South America, in a rental farm home with permaculture projects, a food forest, solar power, and off-grid Internet access. A U.S. 501@3 Non-Profit Religious Order Est. 1992
In late August 2013, 100% disabled Purple Heart Awarded Vietnam Veteran, Summerland volunteer, and retired teacher, Don Mackenzie, was put on oxygen 24/7 due to scarring of his lungs by Agent Orange exposure from 1968 to 1974. Their Cajones land lease homestead was at 7,600 feet.
Don and Jacquie flew to ecologically praised Ecuador in September 2013 to live at sea level. After two years without a garden and rural homestead, they began to search for a place inland to build an ecological classroom, food forest, and home.
In 2018, they relocated from a rental house to what was promised to be a lifetime land lease on a 516-acre farm. The farm was then published worldwide as a Permaculture Farm. The absentee U.S. passport holder who was the English-speaking owner of the farm promised them a contractual land lease for life and a permaculture lifestyle.
Don and Jacquie “broke ground” on October 10, 2018, with all their savings and money they borrowed from a US Bank. Both volunteered daily on that farm. Jacquie served three meals a day to 11 to 34 people while men were building their Eco-Hobbit House. On April 26, 2019, they moved into their new home from the dormitories that were provided to volunteers from all over the world who had come to learn more about permaculture.
In early August 2019, the absentee English-speaking owner of the farm was visiting their new home, Jacquie offered the only beverages she had on hand, organic juice or a 4-ounce Coke. The next day, Jacquie and Don were informed they must move as Coke was not allowed on the farm. They fought in the Ecuador courts to enforce their lifetime land lease, but on March 17, 2025, they moved to a rental farm while still paying thousands owed to a U.S. Bank for the house and food forest they were forced to leave, along with still paying on numerous legal real estate cases.
“Our Dream Window”
After three years in an RV, learning from U.S. eco-communities, Don and Jacquie ended up on 1,227 acres of desertified land off Summerland Road.
They named it Windtree Ranch, near Douglas, Arizona, USA
Resplandor International
The Cajones Community Center
In 2008, in Cajones, when the Summerland volunteers located a farm land lease, they were shocked to learn that only 1 in 500 kids passed into high school. So, the three Summerland volunteers, Don, Jacquie, & Jolene, told a UA professor about an abandoned building that could be a school; he bought it! The three Summerland volunteers supervised, constructed, taught, donated, and made dreams happen from 2009 to 2011. A multitude of additional volunteers, many years, and generous donations later, all the rural children in Cajones and other rural communities pass into high school. Parents learn career skills in the exact location where their children continue to learn and volunteer.
www. https://resplandorinternational.org/
BEFORE
In February 2013, a wildfire destroyed the home of Summerland’s neighbors in Cojones, Guanajuato, Mexico.
DURING
Cojones, Guanajuato, Mexico
The family of six, four girls and two parents, lived with the three Summerland volunteers who created the community center years before. It took six months of work and raising donations in the USA to complete this project in Cojones, Guanajuato, Mexico..
AFTER
In August 2013, the family of six moved into their furnished, debt-free home in Cojones, Guanajuato, Mexico. The girls adored the solar water heater as they had never washed their long hair in hot water!
More dreams came true in a rural farming community of 450 subsistence farmers in Central Mexico.
From 2008 to 2012, Don left his Cajones homestead during the winter months to breathe easier on the western coast of Mexico while Jacquie completed her PhD in Cajones. On coastal waters, Don applied his sailing skills through Puerto Vallarta’s Yacht Club, teaching sailing to youth. Twice, La Miestra, Summerland´s sailboat, won the annual Amistad Award for working as volunteers with indigenous and liveaboard youth.
Rev. Jacqueline Zaleski Mackenzie, PhD
Who is Jacqueline Zaleski Mackenzie?
I was born in Roswell, NM, in January 1947, on a farm. I learned embroidery at age 3, sewing at age 5 (I always watched my mother sewing), and knitting at age 12; I have always loved artistic fiber expressions.
My parents married within 28 days of meeting each other because they both wanted six tall sons; my mother was 6’1”, and my father was 5’6”. They did not want a daughter, nor just one child, but a RhNeg factor was their curse. Therefore, I have broken several “glass ceilings” to prove feminine value to them and to myself for my entire life.
Raised military, I’ve landed or lived in 49 US States, several provinces of Canada, many states in Mexico, a few countries in Europe, and Central and South America. In 1984, I piloted a single-engine airplane from Florida to Alaska and back to Florida to attend a lady pilot’s convention. I also taught flying.
A mother early and a college student late, I was awarded my fifth college degree, a Ph.D., at age 63. I have 30+ years of non-profit leadership. “Service to others” as a teacher and deep ecologist is my life’s vow and joy!
Glass Ceilings I’ve Broken
Unique Accomplishments
First female Teamster in Chicago, Illinois; 2nd in America, 1972.
One of the first groups of seven women to pass the Illinois State Troopers Exam
Only pilot on a 68-hour trip - Flew single-engine airplane from Jacksonville, FL to Anchorage, AK, to meet Sally Ride at a lady pilot’s convention, 1984
Amelia Earhart Outstanding Pilot Award, 1985.
Certified Flight Instructor (CFI) for single-engine airplanes.
Able Toastmaster Silver – 350 motivational speeches in 2 years.
Toastmaster Regional Award Winner, Impromptu Speaking, Palm Bay, Florida.
World traveler: 49 USA states, all of Canada, most of Europe, and Mexico.
American Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS) Certified. 1988.
Arizona State Certified Teacher, birth – grade 12, in Special Education, 2005.
Arizona State Certified Teacher – marketing and technology, 2006.
Designer/Director bilingual school, 3 weeks of age through middle school – trained staff who have run the school since 2007.
Lived off-grid 1996-2008 on 1,227 acres and built 14 alternative structures by hand while offering a charitable eco-camp for youth during school breaks in Douglas, Arizona, USA.
Lived off-grid 2018-2025 on 516 acres near Vilcabamba, Loja, Ecuador, South America.
Education
University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, PhD, Special Education, Bilingual Education, Sociocultural Studies, May 2010 GPA 3.9.
University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, EdS, Special Education, May 2007.
Rio Salado College -100% online learning- Post Baccalaureate Certification Cross-Category Special Education for Arizona State Certificate, 2005.
Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Florida, MS, Business Systems Management (production), 1989 – focus on running an NGO.
Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Florida, BS, Business, 1987 – graduated with High Honors - focus on running an NGO.
University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois, Art Education, 2 years, 1970-72, after studying art at Parkland Junior College.
Type: State of Arizona Teacher’s Certification #3474394 in November 2005.
Early Childhood Special Education certified August 2007 with SEI Endorsement.
Cross-Category Special Education, K-12 with SEI Endorsement and Standard.
Career & Tech. Business & Marketing with FULL SEI Endorsement.
Substitute Teacher with FULL SEI Endorsement, 2006.
Baptized and confirmed Lutheran in childhood. After a year in a Roman Catholic Nunnery at age 15, I joined the Unitarian Universalist Church at age 16. I began my Buddhist studies in my early 20s. I was ordained in Earth Centered Spirituality as a minister in 1992.
Professional Affiliations
Douglas Leadership Academy
Kappa Delta Pi Education Honor Society
Gamma Beta Phi Education Honor Society
Delta Mu Delta Business Honor Society
Able Toastmaster Silver
American Production and Inventory Control Society
Certified Flight & Ground Instructor
Facilitator of online mental health meetings on LifeRing.org
Rev. Jacquie gave lectures at a spiritual retreat in Lakeland, Florida, USA, 2015
From 2008 to 2013, Jacquie facilitated free weekly swimming programs for economically marginalized local children and free individual therapy for disabled children from any region in Cajones, Guanajuato, Mexico.
From 2008 to 2013, Jacquie managed free equine therapy for disabled children in Cajones, Guanajuato, Mexico.
Celebrations by local residents of Summerland volunteers' work in building the first two stories of Resplandor and rebuilding a burned-out home were common in Cajones, Guanajuato, Mexico, from 2008 to 2013.
From 1997 to 2016, Jacquie helped in various Summerland programs for school-aged children in Mexico and Ecuador.
Jacquie, a cowgirl in her soul, has always loved doing handwork with natural fibers.
An elevated ordination of Rev. Jacquie by Oberon and Jacquie croning a female elder in rural Vilcabamba, Loja, Ecuador, South America in August of 2019
Jacquie is holding an eco-sustainable papercrete block made in one of many free seminars that Summerland offered at WindTree Ranch near Douglas, Arizona, USA, between 1998 and 2004.
Retired, and finally free to do what I love: ART….. At age 3, when I learned to embroider, I announced I was going to be an artist. By age 5, I was sewing doll clothing, by age 12, I was knitting...both parents discouraged that career path. As soon as I had left home at age 16, I started taking art classes. I studied at Parkland Jr. College, learned how to be a model for life drawing at Illinois State University, at Normal, Illinois, bartered modeling for life drawing for professors with my infant daughter to gain tuition-free access to art classes at the University of Illinois, Champaign. I was later on a scholarship at the University of Illinois, Chicago Circle Campus for two more years in an art major. I took CLEP tests out of several basic classes. I was stuffing in art classes while working three jobs before entering the Florida Institute of Technology.
Jolene Gailey
Jolene has been an artist & horsewoman for most of her adult life. She loves being in rural areas surrounded by nature, with her painting supplies, dogs, and a horse or two.
She began working as a volunteer for Summerland Projects in 2002 near Douglas, Arizona. She had been living in Tucson, Arizona, to be near art galleries, areas to market her work, and other artists, but her inspirations have always been when she is in rural, expansive mountainous regions.
Jolene began studying Spanish in middle school. She is bilingual.
Jolene moved to Cajones, Guanajuato, Mexico, in 2008 with Jacquie, Don, dogs, and horses. She Speaks high-class Spanish, her Mexican neighbors say. Jolene still resides there in a modest home on leased land in Cajones, an indigenous farming subsistence community close to her horses, dogs, and cats.
Jolene´s Bio
Over 250 people attended my first art show, which took place while I was still in college. A call to service as a missionary interrupted my college studies. My subsequent volunteer activities led to my attending college in increments. I was still able to complete a BFA degree in sculpture and years later a BFA in drawing and Painting, which I finished at the age of 43.
I have exhibited in many galleries from Salt Lake City, Utah, to Tucson and Bisbee, Arizona, to Guanajuato and San Miguel de Allende in Mexico.
I have a client list that spans from California to Prague to Japan, and from Taos, New Mexico, to Chile. And all this before the internet.
Although I haven't competed extensively, I did win Best Drawing and Best in Show in a single competition. My work has been in Southwest Art magazine. I have my artwork on display in many galleries in Mexico, have shown in numerous art shows several times a year, and I am usually working every day on a custom piece for a client or two.
I paint in oil on anything flat! I have also done a few sculptures in bronze.
What do I like to paint?
Anything that has light !!
Where Jolene lives in Cajones, GTO, MX
Have Questions?
summerlandvolunteers@gmail.com
(593) 99 144 4166