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We have a small orchard with trees that are more mature than the thousands of baby fruit trees we have planted in the forest over the past few years. This year our avocado, peach, guayaba, and mandarin trees are doing particularly well. We enjoyed a surplus of avocados over the summer and into Autumn. Our […] The end is finally in sight for our planting season! We’re getting ready to put away the gloves and shovels, brush the dirt off our pants, and rest. For a week. Then the weeding season begins. Yay!
The climate here offers us a small window of opportunity to get as many seeds […] Last April we began digging our first swale – “The Great Upper Swale” – along the contour of the hillside on the upper part of the Bosque.
Making swales is a popular permaculture practice for rainwater harvesting. Swales are essentially long ditches dug on along a level line of a hillside. When […] Hugo is on a mission – nothing can stop him! He is biking from Quebec, Canada, to Tierra del Fuego; the southernmost tip of Argentina. Cycling this distance is a long journey, but the personal trip quite longer. Hugo volunteered with us last October, and he is, we believe, still in Mexico, taking time to […] |