Mar 4, 2013 | Musings, Photos

Raining in the #jungle (at Rancho...

New Blog

Mar 4, 2013 | Musings

The buy positively blog will be taking a hiatus for some time. This blog was started full of great intentions and with an idea to make consumerism better. Through market testing of the business idea, we have decided not to pursue the venture any further at this point....

Sunday funday

Mar 4, 2013 | Learning, Musings

Sunday is the day of rest, not on the farm though and certainly not in the tourism world. It was, however, a more relaxed day of work today and everything was moving a little bit slower today. In the morning, I was supposed to go and clean up the cerdero (pig pen) but...

Weeds compete with plants

Mar 3, 2013 | Learning, Musings

I was relieved of lecheria and have not been shoveling poop or compost the past two days. I’ve spending my days working in la huerta (vegetable garden) and in el jardin (garden). In the huerta, Abilio taught me how to prepare a bed of land so it’s ready...

You must clear away the dead to make way for the new

Mar 1, 2013 | Learning, Musings

Today started out with more shoveling and cleaning of the cow poop. Beto wasn’t here today though so I shoveled and hosed down everything. I finished shoveling everything out and heard the goat’s calling so I figured they were hungry. I went and emptied the old grass...

Animals are beautiful – Day 2

Feb 28, 2013 | Learning, Musings

The day started off with shoveling more shit and cleaning the cows’ home. Today, this task felt much quicker and less laborious than yesterday since I had done it once already and had the process down. In the process of looking for a broom, I discovered that...