The End of a Dynamic Year for the Sunflowers Community Garden (Huerta Girasoles)
A quick rundown via photos from this year: February: The mandala garden in Sunflowers Garden in February Using our chipper to process banana leaves and fallen branches Teo, from Cedros community, watering the garden in March. The umbrella is for the hot sun! Our celebration in March, officially opening up the new year: two participants, Julio and Marlon, taking part in the icebreaker Guillermo, right in blue t-shirt, demonstrating to participants an efficient way to create compost in a small space as part of the opening ceremony. Jonathan, right, a student from the UCR (Costa Rican University), explaining to participants in the opening ceremony our system of regenerative agriculture. Our colleague Mía, explaining our philosophy of "wildness" represented in the 800 square yards of trees and understory that we are leaving as undisturbed as possible. Learning about cacao ecology during a field trip that the Green UBL team took in April this year. Als...