Moxviquil campus At a Slow Foods event in Chiapas I met a young woman, Adeleina (Ade for short), who is studying at the Institute...

The pesky white butterfly!! When I first started visiting Rancho Lum Ha I thought "Wow how beautiful are all of these abundant...

As you can see, there is something to look at on every street of San Cristobal de Las Casas. Colorful houses, flowers, trees, cactuses,...

This syntropic garden that has a diversity of plants-- squash, sunflowers, sugar cane, cappuchinas, buckwheat, mustard plants,...

Mar showing us their worms for sale! Would you like some pet worms? My friends Chelo and Mar from the collective JAMA can teach you how...

Mountains and Cornfields. The drive to Rancho Lum Ha' During our 45-minute drive to Rancho Lum Ha', I gaze out the window of Chelo's...

Chelo teaching producers from Honduras to make organic fungicide If we want more farmers to be able to practice agreocological methods,...

Today we needed to replenish the liquid bio-fertilizer (biol, in Spanish) because it was running low. Liquid bio-fertilizers contain...

Fernando and I flipping the Bokashi Every morning Chelo and I catch up on each other's lives as we toss shovels full of Bokashi...

Preparing a Garden Bed at Rancho Lum Ha' After three months in Guatemala, I decided to return back to Chiapas, Mexico. Since Southern...

To finish the course and receive our Permaculture Design Certification (PDC), we had to complete the final task of making our own...

Our Permaculture course group holding medicinal plants after our course with the Guatemalan natural medicine expert, Dr. Armando Cáceres...

Homes and hives of native bee species that Granja Elisa conserves ALL bees are important. Not just those that produce abundant honey. We...

Here I'm using the A-frame (aparato A) to measure contour lines I've always wanted to learn how to use the A-frame to make contour lines!...

Analyzing the intricate Mesoamerican art by the Beehive Collective "What do you all see in the canvases hanging in the room?" Andrés...

Visualizing when to plant/ propagate different types of plants according to the moon cycle Throughout my time living in Central America I...

Small-Scale Production Plots for the Local Community, Pachitulul In the evenings after I finish work at 5pm, I walk down toward the lake...

Making a garden mandala design June 21, 2024   Huertos Familiares: Building a Family Garden The rain poured and pounded all night long...

June 25, 2024 Stomping down the microorganisms to store them anaerobically Microorganisms!! I wrote some about microorganisms during my...

June 22, 2024 Native Kitchen-- Amaranth Colorful, red and yellow stalks of amaranth create a beautiful scenery throughout the garden...