Surviving in the Jungle

Last Friday Susana Schik and I went to visit Luis Rodriquez to talk about a group trip we’re planning for October, a survival in the jungle course. Don Luis said he’d be happy to teach us how to set up a seed bank and then insited we go visit Virgina and Gonzalo at Finca Loroco. I happen to know miss Virgina and don Gonzalo from the Saturday Farmer’s Market in Puerto Viejo so was excited to go see their project. Lots of great ideas for how to cultivate rice, yucca, soy beans, corn, beans, okra, and lots of other fruits and veggies in the tropics. They also have a tilapia pond, use a biodigetor that uses the energy from pig waste to make a sanitary gas on which to cook their food, have chickens for eggs, can teach about composting to fertilize the soil, and have lodging so folks can stay a while and learn all this from them.
Also, yesterday, Selva (my sister-in-law and daughter of Mel Baker, one of ATEC’s founders), a group of visitors from Texas, and Noble and I went up to the BriBri Indigenous Territory and hung out with Don Catato and his wife Virgina and learned a lot about bush medicine and how to process cacao.