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Winter’s Wet Green Heat

By Peter Berg / March 10, 2006 / 0 Comments

Bahia de Caraquez, Ecuador The rainy season finally began at the end of January this year, late but potent. Only six weeks later the hills have been completely transformed from dust blurred brown-orange to wet vibrant green. Vine tendrils hang like searching snakes from trees and slink across paths. The ground is in a constant […]

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Blazed a trail with Ricardito, scouted out future plantings.

By Heather Crawford / March 5, 2006 / 0 Comments

February 27 to March 5, 2006 The week started off with a bang with carnival in full swing; luckily the rain held out until just the day after, when we got a heavy downpour, and another one a few days later. There was a mangrove planting for the Eco-Semana on International Day of the Mangrove […]

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Eco-Semano parade

By Heather Crawford / February 27, 2006 / 0 Comments

February 21-27, 2006 This week we transported another load of trees to the sites and planted in three places – La Cruz, Bosque Encantado y El Toro (on the other side of the creek although we don’t know who the land belongs to). We got rained on and it was very slippery!  We had help […]

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We began planting at La Cruz.

By Heather Crawford / February 19, 2006 / 0 Comments

February 13 – 19, 2006 We’ve been getting rain about every other day, but it’s not consistently heavy.  Maybe one or two nights of heavy rain a week. It’s been getting cloudy in the daytime more often now, so it seems like the weather will stay wet for a while. The new plants are doing well. We […]

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Another planting at El Torro, El Bosque Encantado

By Heather Crawford / February 12, 2006 / 0 Comments

February 6-12, 2006 I spoke to Alfredo Duenas and have arranged for him to get the remaining money for the map of our new land this week. No new news about our land in Las Coronas. I´ll try to talk to Johnny Delgado about including more sites on the Eco-Paseo.  I doubt the older trees […]

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El Sobrador, and asking for permission to plant on El Torro

By Heather Crawford / February 5, 2006 / 0 Comments

January 30-February 5, 2006 I just came from a “sobador” who cures things by moving things around in your body. Supposedly something had sunken in between my ribs and is now cured!  We’ll see tomorrow when I wake up. He also supposedly cured some other things which he guessed I had but I hadn’t even […]

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Doing home improvements

By Heather Crawford / January 29, 2006 / 0 Comments

January 23 – 29, 2006 Emilia says she’d like to switch apartments with us, sometime after March, which means we would move downstairs by the patio area. She has offered to throw in an office next to the bodgea at no extra charge. The apt. downstairs is as big as the one we are currently […]

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We sowed some Jaboncillo, Barbasco, Bototo and Guasmo seeds.

By Heather Crawford / January 22, 2006 / 0 Comments

January 16-22, 2006 This week we watered, put up some plant shading, and did a second planting at Maria Piedad’s. We’ve had a bit of rain but it hasn’t been heavy like it was when I arrived last rainy season. We also began planting at Ricardito’s site at the back of Fanca, hereafter referred to […]

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Collecting seeds with Marcelo

By Heather Crawford / January 15, 2006 / 1 Comment

January 9-15, 2006 The holidays in Bahia are now over, till carnival. We finally took down our Nativity scene and the X-mas decorations (all products of Art Night). I also assisted the ceremony for removing the Baby Jesus from our neighbourhood’s nativity scene.  We had a good-bye bonfire for Steffi on the beach. Claudia from […]

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A week without rain

By Heather Crawford / January 8, 2006 / 0 Comments

January 2-8, 2006 Congratulations on finding a new projects manager!  The timing sounds good. Now I know I’ve got to get cracking on my future plans!  We haven’t had any more rain since those two days over a week ago. Nonetheless, we started with a small planting at Inter-Americano School where principal Dr. Sanchez suggested. […]

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