Slow Living Farm

Speaking of mangoes… Wally mentioned that we are coming to the last mango of the year, but he didn’t say that our season began in May! This has been the best and the longest season we’ve ever had for mangoes. Unfortunately, it was a poor year for all our neighbors who complained that their trees…

I’ve been working on the chicken pen for the past week, fixing up the fences. The lower pen has a slope to it, dirt and rocks continually work their way down hill and pile up at the fence, slowly lowering the top of it. I’ve been clearing away the rubble and raising the fence. I’m…

I can see I have to work on taking time for this. Not quite a year since my last post. I’ve been busy. We’re near the end of this rainy season and all the creatures and plants are happy and full of life. I started out the week doing some machete work in the lower…

All around us are hearts a plenty. Many tropical plants have heart-shaped leaves and today we especially notice them. When we began building our house Wally would bring me heart rocks. We have them in all sizes with the largest too large for me to lift. That one is painted red violet with sparkles of…

While Wally puts in the foundation for yet another chicken house we have 10 additions to the family. Our miniature Costa Rican hen hatched 4 blacks and 6 striped chicks – the striped ones look like little sparrows. We slipped the 11th egg under a regular size hen that insists on brooding so another chick…

There’s been a lot going on at the farm this month. We have been finishing the cobbling on the road. It is the steepest part of our drive and every year following the rainy season it worsens. It reminds me of navigating an ever worsening channel. By the weekend it will be a charming cobblestone…