happy spring

fotos from december 2012 – march 2013

Start of the rain and planting

After a long dry summer season things are back on track in the cloud forest.

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Ójala que llueva café…harvest time at Finca La Fé

While things are just getting popping up north we are winding up the harvest season here with our first organic coffee production.

You can read more about Rio Intag Coffee and our 402 person organic, fair-trade cooperative  at:  http://aacri.com/

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Spring in the Andes

As many begin to plant  up North we are counting the days until the looong rainy season ends and harvesting! corn, piñas, aguacate, beans, yuca….everything is coming in beautiful this year thanks to an abundance of rain and the utilization of diluted sulfur calcite to control the associated powder funguses.

 

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Outhouses, treeplanting, and a great wet start to the growing season

After a looooong blogging hiatus Finca La Fe is back….as our friends up north are harvesting their last produce and preparing for winter, in the Ecuadorian Chocó cloud forests we are planting the first corn, beans, coffee and veggies; continuing to reforest with native tree species as part of a nitrogen fixing, agroforestry plan; and putting the final touches on our rain water harvesting system that will provide 350,000 cubic m

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eters a year to our soon to be established fish ponds!

Also, the farm house is pretty much done….finally! We now enjoy a composting toilet, lavanderia, and bodega/ coffee drying shed.

Babies and nice produce as we enter the dry season

The 2010-11 winter (october-may) has been the wettest in 40 years due to our friend El Niño. We have managed to more or less control the associated rise in fungus problems with organic bioles. As we start harvesting our corn and beans and prepare for the Ecuadorian summer (or dry season) the farm has been blessed with a new baby girl horse and cow, as well as lots of great fruit!

Me with my horse family.

baby “Tinkerbell Campañita” at 1 week (named by my daughter).

new terraced veggie gardens: summer drip irrigation water comes from a tank filled with winter rain harvested from the roof of the house

naranjilla

papaya

Check out this short documentray about Finca La Fe