Compost? I think not.

What do YOU think are in these bags?

Dear Robert: I can teach you a few thinks about funk while building fences...

Today: Well to start with I was brought into the circle although here in Costa Rica it's a square. Now that I'm in the square I can not discuss what's in those bags.... I can however tell you it's NOT COMPOST. I did not spend the morning shoveling the big piles into sacs. Each pile does not take about 8 weeks to go from pig poo to clean, healthy soil that is full of nutrients. That is just what these "organic" "sustainable" "people" want you to think. If I say any more the square will feed me to the worms and I WILL be compost. 

ps I built a fence for the chickens as well... watch out Roberto you have met your match.

The Purple Boots and Saturday with EARTH students

Me in my purple boots planting cilantro

The before shot
The after shot... those are some tired boots

ok ok ok here are the boots, but the truth is I accidently left them out in the rain which is why they don't look SO dirty. 

On saturdays the EARTH students go to the farms for practical experience, so today I  worked with a girl from Brazil and two students from Panama. We transplanted the cilantro from the greenhouse to beds and also did some serious weeding. 

La finca (the farm) and Los Animales

                                                They made me pay extra to get this shot

                                                             Mark the Water buffalo
                                                             "Oh yeah thats the spot..."

Cute huh... but these ridiculously photogenic pigs charged me three piles of mud for the photo shoot--nothing is for free in this world.

Mark the water buffalo is really sweet also.  

This morning I did some planting in the green house and and a few other other odd jobs on la finca. The farm is made up of about 10 different systems that come from all around the world including la mandalla from brazil and an Asian garden that treats the soil and plants with EM--a technology developed in Japan that is a careful balance of different microorganisms thats fights pests, but also provides nutrients to the plants and soil.

Bike ride I took down this path.  I just realized too that these are out of sequence as I am posting them on my blog.  (You need to start with the one that says 'here is EARTH').  And back to the story...and the final picture.  Which is one of the coolest plants I have ever seen... 

Is home!  This is where I am living for the next month or so.  It is comfortable and--contrary to previous knowledge--has hot water.  If you look closely at the left side of the house you can see my bike, actually just its back wheel. Pretty cool though huh?  Today it rained a bit, but it wasn't bad, just refreshing; as was the nice, long...

So here is EARTH.  (I know what some of you are going to say too--Justin).  It's really cool though.  Today was my first day of work, which primarily took place in the nursery: I planted cucumbers, peppers, etc.  The whole place is sustainable too!  I got to eat some of the produce for dinner also, which (by the way) was very tasty.  Next to show you all...