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Island Farm
http://www.theislandfarm.blogspot.com
The Island Farm is an established working permaculture farm on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica. We grow black pepper, vanilla, spices, exotic fruits and greens. We have an incredibly beautiful Botanical Garden and nursery and we produce sprouts, spices, tempeh, kombucha and dried fruit and granola for the local Farmers' Market. Beautiful life.
- Added on: Jan 18th, 2009
- Country: Costa Rica
- Language: English
- Author: ancel
- Listed in: Agriculture Gardening
- Tags: green sustainable living permaculture natural history botanical gardens tropical gardening
Recent Posts
christmas
Christmas is almost upon us. One has to try pretty hard to muster christmas in the tropics. Growing up in Scotland I was intensely aware of the dark and the cold and the weight of the year. The solstice and the lights of the christmas tree, the burni...
ah
It's been a while since I last blogged, it seems I'm otherwise occupied with many varied but hard to pinpoint thoughts, tasks and activities. The farm is entering a more dormant period with the rains and change of light. Here, being 9 degrees north o...
things to do - really?
time goes by quickly here, and there's always something else ahead of us . . . to just take a moment out to sit and be takes planning - incredible. That needs to change. I need to learn from my surroundings, not get so caught up in rush of fruit and ...
Paper making workshop
There's more to our farm than just the farmer and myself. Anyone who has visited the website will quickly see that there are others. The others are the farmer's son and his very capable partner, and our 3 and a 1/2 workers. Together we are able to ru...
butterfly
I'm drying papaya seeds so that I can sprout them for salad mixes. The fermenting fruit attracts butterflies, wasps, bees, all sorts of visitors. Here's a morpho butterfly from the side you rarely see....
My new guide book!
Here's a few sample pages from my guide book to growing and gathering food in lowland Costa Rica. There's 68 pages of information and recipes on what grows here and what to do with it. It was really fun to write and I'd like to do some more, perhaps ...
