Tuesday, 24 November 2009

things to do - really?

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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 - ...
Tuesday, 17 November 2009

rain

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The rains have come. Great sheets of water slicing from the sky, thundering on the tin roof, overflowing the rain barrels, forming great mud...
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Sunday, 15 November 2009

Paper making workshop

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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...
Thursday, 12 November 2009

butterfly

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I'm drying papaya seeds so that I can sprout them for salad mixes. The fermenting fruit attracts butterflies, wasps, bees, all sorts of ...
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Monday, 9 November 2009

My new guide book!

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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 an...
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Wednesday, 4 November 2009

jammin', with fudge

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After a long hiatus I made some araza jam this morning. There's a small season starting and I was able to pick 2/3rds of a bucket of fru...

'making' black pepper

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The farmer has been producing organic black pepper for over twenty years here on the farm. Pepper was introduced as an alternative cash crop...
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Tuesday, 3 November 2009

frog in the washtub

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Monday, 2 November 2009

cacao harvest time

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roasted cacao beans We're in the middle of our cacao harvest. It takes a while, spread out over a course of maybe 5 weeks as we wait for...
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Friday, 30 October 2009

getting ready for Christmas, caribbean style

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Bastimentos

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Bastimentos is a small island about 10 minutes by water taxi from Isla Colon. We went there to visit a friend who manages an incredibly beau...
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squall

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Sitting eating delicious battered fish on the deck of a shabby looking restaurant standing on stilts out over the water, a few raindrops beg...

trip to Bocas del Toro, Panama

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Just returned from a great little trip down to Panama. The Caribbean islands of Bocas del Toro are 3 1/2 hours from here, including crossing...
Thursday, 22 October 2009

christmas pudding

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Today I made the christmas pudding. It's always a fun thing to do, partly because the list of ingredients is long but simple, partly bec...
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Tuesday, 20 October 2009

what happens when we're not at home

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This is Hoss, our shepherd mix, enjoying time out with the 'Edible Austin' magazine, sometimes life is just too hard . . .
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Monday, 19 October 2009

kumquat in rambutan syrup

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This is delicious over pancakes and probably good with ice-cream. It also works with chicken dishes. Another recycling recipe from the farm ...
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