The Goings on at Fuente Verde

Fuente Verde is a beautiful permaculture farm in the Coastal Mountains of Central Costa Rica on the Pacific side. As soon as they build and official website for the farm I’ll be sure to post a link. It’s 60 acres and from what I can tell most of it is usable for one function or another be it a housing plot (there are over 20 plots but only a few houses so far), a hillside terraced for fruit and vegetable production, cattle pasture, ponds, orchards, or rainforest preservation.



This is the volunteer house that we all live in. It's got a kitchen and living / dining area downstairs and then some bedrooms upstairs with three story bunks.. I've been sleeping on the top.. it's comfortable and you get a lot of privacy up there.




So this week we made a fire pit


When I got here they had just finished construction on a chicken coop. The structure is made mostly of bamboo as is most stuff around here.. bamboo is awesome for jungle construction. The day after I got here they went and got 50 chickens, little ones called Jardineros (gardeners) because they scratch the soil very hard looking for bugs and so loosen it up and poop allover it giving it great fertilizer.. hence the name gardeners. Heres the coop.


There are currently 50 chickens but we are going to let them hatch till we get 100.


You can't really see it from here but there are three terraces to the left of the coop that run maybe 70 meters. They will all be separated by chicken wire and then there will be a door from the "chicken run" (its their own little full time yard behind the coop) to each of the terraces so we can isolate where they go, and so before we plant a certain area we can have the chickens go in, eat the bugs, scratch the soil and poop everywhere for a few weeks and then it'll be perfect for planting.

Some more stuff we did this week is dig out some terraces out behind the house. These ones are right behind the kitchen. The top one will be fed with runoff from the roof and the bottom two will be fed with our gray water from washing our clothes and other things.


We also made some paths around the orchard next to the house. This picture is taken from the bathroom down on to the orchard / garden.

So that is what we have been up to. I am going to try to get another post up within the week.