September 9th was el Dia del Ninos - Children's Day in Costa Rica. We celebrated by going to a celebration at Finca Life Monteverde. Finca = Farm.
This farm grows its own coffee, sugar cane, beans and vegys. They are working at being a self sustaining organization cooperative organization.
These are the drying racks for the coffee and other beans.
Invernadero = Greenhouse
They create methane gas from pigs poop! They use this gas to heat water in the kitchen.
Esta es el arbol nacional Guanacaste:
Other activities of the day included squeezing the juice out of sugar cane:
Using a bicycle powered machine to cut up some sugar cane to feed to the goats:
Check them out on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/pages/Life-Monteverde/433042580091754
Take a look at your carbon footprint http://myfootprint.org/en/
This farm grows its own coffee, sugar cane, beans and vegys. They are working at being a self sustaining organization cooperative organization.
These are the drying racks for the coffee and other beans.
These are the coffee plants (above). They used the land to create a fun slide for the kids for the day and Doug was not too shy to be one of the first to try it out:
Invernadero = Greenhouse
They create methane gas from pigs poop! They use this gas to heat water in the kitchen.
Esta es el arbol nacional Guanacaste:
Other activities of the day included squeezing the juice out of sugar cane:
Using a bicycle powered machine to cut up some sugar cane to feed to the goats:
Check them out on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/pages/Life-Monteverde/433042580091754
Take a look at your carbon footprint http://myfootprint.org/en/
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