Costa Rican Chameleon

Felipe says, he met this fellow while pruning the landscape.  The Costa Rican Chameleon showed his true colors....both brown and green.

 From left to right, Evalina, Karolis, Sallu, Umar and my husband Felipe.  We are about to have our organic farm lunch using the veggies we grow and our homemade bread.  Sallu and Umar made the floral arrangements.

The floral arrangements are sooooo sweet.  They make life a little more beautiful...if that is possible.

Our wonderful wwoofers in the Greenhouse

Karolis and Evelina are from Lithuania.  They are traveling around the world and are 1/2 way through their journey.  Umar and Sallu are Agro Engineering students at EARTH University.  Their home is Sierra Leone, but for 5 years while studying they are living in Costa Rica.

Giant Beetle

 Giant Beetle, this is the biggest one of this type we have seen on the farm.  Do not yet know what type of beetle he is, but he is beautiful.

The Farm at dusk...so peaceful

Looking from the South to the North, as the sun was going down last night.  To the left of the photo you can see Guadua Bamboo flowing in the breeze.  The birds love the bamboo.

Sundown on the farm, and the clouds were so beautiful we could not resist taking their photos.  The farm house can be seen in the botton portion and the Turrialba Volcano in the distance.  Another WOW day...

Volunteers at our farm, Claire and Ethan, have been busy building our bamboo greenhouse using Guadua bamboo grown here at the farm.   Seen here working on the herb spiral.  Soon tons of herbs, eggplant, tomatoes, and other crops needing a dryer climate, will be thriving in their new shelter.

Boa of the Day

Marcos our farm manager with a Boa he found today.  We love having Boas on the farm.

Sunset at Finca Quijote...

It's a boy, born early this morning on the farm.  New life, perfectly as it should be.

Finca Quijote de Esperanza, our farm, now has a Facebook page of it's own.  We will be talking about permaculture, Steiner, natural medicine, and all things related to healthy farm life and healthy people.  Please join us and click the "like" button.   www.facebook.com/FincaQuijotedeEsperanza

This beautiful eagle let us get very close before taking flight.  My daughter Christine captured her photo as she took off from a fence post on our farm.  Amazing wing spread with the sun shining on her.

This Owl was caught in a fence, my worker Maira found him this morning and came for cutting tools.  She cut him out and brought him to us to rmove the wire from his wing.  Marcos is holding him, and now Felipe and Marcos are on their way to the vet for treatment.

It's a BOY!!!!!   New life on the farm and he is beautiful, just like his Mom...   Life is good in Paradise....

Here he is, my stud, Bullie 2, father of every cow and toro born this year and last year.  He is beautiful, and smiling for you.

He was born just 3 days ago to #96 and Bullie 2.  So beautiful and big.  Marcos had to help pull him out.

This Boa, about 8' long, ate our neighbors chicken this morning, so we relocated him to our farm.  You can see the bulge...  He is full and not happy about being handled.

Costa Rican Pee-Wee adult

We grow organic bananas and plantains.  Lots of different varieties, and hundreds of them.  We eat them every way imaginable, and then some. The farms animals and dogs also love them.  Horses eat them peel and all.  I love hot ripe banana soup with curry, sopa de banano.

Farm life is routine, you have the I got to get it done everyday stuff, cows fed, wash washed, mid-morning breakfast (I don’t make an early breakfast), and your always trying to beat the rainforest rain. Yesterday I was picking lettuce and when I looked up there was our young male stallion, Macho, loose and in the veggie garden. NOOOOOOO. Macho might be young, but he is big, fast and powerful, Dad was a Spanish Pasafino. He was not interested in hearing from me, he was looking for good eats. I drove him with waving arms into the backyard and out of the garden and while the farm manager’s wife stood guard with her broom I went and got my quad for the round-up. Macho left the back yard and went two pastures down to where my husband was working on his backhoe….newly planted pasture grass, also a no no. I raced down on my quad and found Marcos our farm manager, picked him up and on the return trip as I turned a corner heading across a stream named Brava, here was Macho coming at us all wild eyed. Marcos jumped off the quad and ran back to open up the first gate, while I got out of Machos way. We directed him into his new location of the day. I would never have a stallion again, if given the choice. Macho’s only thoughts are eating and sex, sex and eating. I drove Marcos back to work, and I went back to fetch my bowl of lettuce and greens.

These are a pair of bueys working my neighbors sugar cane fields.  They are long horn steers.

Marcos with the catch of the day, Fer de Lance.