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Compost production in the Astillero neighborhood continues at full throttle. We’ve been transporting organic waste from the Bahía to the Astillero for the past five months and already have produced three massive piles of completed compost that is ready to be prepared as planting soil. Jose Maria is using his portion of the compost to […]
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Thus far in January, Planet Drum has made significant progress on a new project: beekeeping. At the beginning of the month, Ricardo and Clay visited our friend Miguel Angel (proprietor of La Colmena in Portoviejo) to discuss apiculture. Miguel Angel has been bee-keeping for years and appears interested in sharing his knowledge with anyone willing to […]
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The revegetation work in Bellavista continues to strengthen community participation by involving local residents in all phases of tree production and planting. In the process, we are teaching residents about compost production and also lending them a hand with their own new community gardening initiative. The latest development in Bellavista is that we have built a […]
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One of the schools in the region that has participated in Planet Drum’s revegetation activities over the years is the Los Algarrobos School in Canoa. In the past, we always talked about increasing collaboration with them. Now the opportunity has presented itself and after discussing possibilities with Antonia, the school’s principle, we decided to build […]
Read MoreAfter distributing more than 3,000 trees with the National Electric Company throughout the Manabí region in November and early December, the greenhouse has been left with only a few hundred trees in reserve. While it’s great to be able to reach so many different communities and regions with trees for revegetation with the Electric Company, […]
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The National Electric Company “Electric Tree” campaign with Planet Drum used nearly all of 3,000+ trees that were in the greenhouse. After a ceremony at the greenhouse on November 10th, a few contractors returned to pick up additional trees for distribution throughout the province. After giving out most of the saplings at the greenhouse to […]
Read MoreReport #3 November, 2017By David Simpson and Jane Lapiner Two Anniversaries There are two anniversaries being noted in the halls of COP 23. One is the 4th anniversary of COP 19 that took place in the national soccer stadium that doubles as a convention hall in Warsaw. It had been a stirring meeting that saw […]
Read MoreReport #2 November, 2017By David Simpson and Jane Lapiner Opening Day of COP23 The opening day of COP 13 went smoothly, one blessedly brief speech by a climate luminary followed by another without a hitch but also without anything resembling the luster that an event of this magnitude might be expected to demand. Until, that […]
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We increased compost production at the Astillero greenhouse site as organic waste piled up. One morning was spent doing maintenance to clean up the area and have more space for working. On another morning, we turned the compost piles to facilitate decomposition and collected fruit seeds from over-ripe oranges.
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Planet Drum has been collecting organic waste from the Bahía market since September. Several of the vendors help by collecting damaged fruit, plantain stalks, and other pieces of organic waste in 25 gallon barrels. To show our gratitude for their assistance, and include locals in the entire process of compost production to fruit tree production, […]
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