Autumn Equinox

Pepper harvest continues and new ways to store them are experimented with.

Fire roasted turned out very well and tasty.

Tomato canning for the coming winter months.

Lacto fermented peppers are great too.

Squash harvest begins.

Banana harvesting takes place year round, but we always have surplus at this time of year for alcohol and vinegar production.

Our compost bins are filling in the foreground and cooking for spring application in the second bin.

Fig trees, grape, and Robinia pseudoacacia waiting to be planted in freshly cleared forest lands of Zone 3.

Final eggplant harvesting takes place and seeds are saved for next year.

Here is a permaculture garden with figs, taro, tree tomato, peanuts, mulberry, squash and citrus.

The fencing keeps the chickens out and provides a dry place for the fruit to hang until harvest.

August 2015 Projects

Our humble home and surroundings.

The Guinea Fowl are thriving in their new habitat.

Pepper harvest begins.

Eggplant harvest begins.

Tomatoes keep rolling in.

July 2015 Projects

Micro greens.

Purple Taro.

Chicken forage area with citrus and figs.

 Green Taro patch.

Our second wwoofer arrives.

Our wwoof-er home, dry and cool with the water flowing under the roadway.

Tomato harvesting begins in earnest.

June 2015 Projects

We had our first wwoof-er this June.  We had a great time and worked hard together.

We arranged a work exchange on a friends farm to harvest potatoes, as he has a large flat area to cultivate.

The children really enjoyed having a new friend to live with them for a few weeks.

Konswan is bringing supplies from the 'nursery' near our house up the mountain to our fruit orchard site.    Behind her are the blocks for our shed project.

Konswan's precious cargo of comfrey, figs and grapes.  These are clones we made ourselves and can continue to propagate until all of our land is full of edibles.

Our first guinea chicks hatched, along with more chickens.

Description of our Projects Zones

Because of the irregular terrain created by volcanoes and subsequent erosion of the valley, our zones stretch and contort in curious ways.

Zone 0 House and Immediate Surroundings (~5 meters radius around house)

Compost Bins

Nursery Greenhouse

Window Sills

Potted plants on front porch awaiting planting

Zone 1 Area Above Canal and Below Roadway (~25 meters radius around house)

Fruit Trees in Zone 1

Banana x 7

Lemon x 1

Grapefruit x 1

Tangerine x 1

Mandarin  x 1

Sweet Orange (bahia?) x 1

Raised Bed Gardens Below House

Raised Bed Gardens In ‘Bowl’ South of House

Raised Bed Gardens Behind/Above House

Greenhouse/Retaining Wall

Chayote Patches

Zone 2 Area Below Canal, Along Roadway, Julia Land and Chicken Orchards

Fruit Trees in Zone 2

Banana x 150

Apple  x 2

Fig  x 7

Loquat x 5

Plum x 3

Custard Apple x 5

Chestnut x 2

Tree Tomato x 5

Lime x 3

Valencia Late Orange x 1

Blood Orange x 1

Sweet Orange (bahia?) x 3

Lemon x 3

Mulberry x 4

Pathway to River

Azalea Garden

Taro Patch

Car Park

Zone 3 Wild Areas in need of Clearing and Firewood Forest

Catia Land

Manes Land except Chicken Orchards and Car Park

Mountain Top above house

Our Zone 0 Over the Years

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2010

2011

 

2014