July 21-August 1, 2008  Summary: We spend one week continuing the water routine, then it rains over the weekend and we get to spend the next week in the greenhouse and out in the field collecting seeds. Major progress is made in organizing, planting seeds and transplanting trees in the greenhouse. On Monday we head to the Don Pepe revegetation site and water the trees. From […]

July 7-21, 2008  Summary:  Many of the volunteers finish their stays with us. After getting so far ahead during the whirlwind week of work with the Canadians, I decide to take a weeklong vacation in the mountains. Back in Bahia, we continue watering the sites and two new volunteers, Stephen and Gina arrive.  On Monday, William and Jaime depart to do some traveling around Ecuador before […]

May 12-23, 2008  Summary:  A good volunteer force and enough rain to keep us from full-time watering allow us to make some real progress on site maintenance and in the greenhouse. On Monday we split into groups. I take some of the volunteers to water the trees at La Cruz and then take a neighborhood tour, collecting discarded three-liter bottles along the way. Jaime heads out […]

April 16-25, 2008  It’s been a relatively quiet couple of weeks. The single volunteer Sara was replaced by Sam. Fortunately the workload hasn’t required more hands. As May approaches our numbers will be bolstered by some new arrivals. On Wednesday the 16th of April the finishing touches on the Astillero site were completed. Each tree has a nicely shaped bowl around the base for watering and […]

January 19, 2009-January 31, 2009 Summary: Light rains marked the commencement of the rainy season and we mobilized with tree planting at sites that were waiting with trails and holes already prepared. A new volunteer has joined the planting effort and more are on the way. Email is being flooded with prospective volunteers. And Clay and Jaeson paid a visit to the Planet Drum Bioregional Institute […]

December 29, 2008-January 16, 2009 Summary: House repairs continued. Stakes for tree markers are cut and painted. A new site at Bosque Encantado is created. Completed house repairs include (but are not limited to): hiring a contractor to repaint the front of the house, refinishing the Planet Drum sign, repairing the sign’s metal hanger that was in danger of falling to the sidewalk below, overhauling a […]

December 10-14, 2007    Summary: I damaged my Meniscus while surfing in Canoa over the weekend and had to spend the week resigned to the house with a leg brace preventing me from bending my leg. Fortunately the volunteers kept up with all the work and more of them showed up this week, so now the house is full. On Monday the La Cruz vegetation site was […]

December 3-7, 2007    Summary: The sole two volunteers this week, Caroline and Nadine, held down the fort with Revegetation Foreman Jaime for the first few days while I attended a seminar at Cerro Blanco, near Guayaquil, with Bioregional Education Teacher Ramon and Marcelo Luque. Ramon came and helped out on Friday to bolster our numbers. On Monday I took off for Guayaquil in the morning and […]

November 26-30, 2007  This week it was time to say goodbye to the November crew and hello to the new December volunteers.  On Monday Dewey left, and on Tuesday Lilian, Michele and Matt departed.  Thanks for all of the help! Monday, with a somewhat reduced workforce due to volunteer traveling, we were only able to knock out watering the Bosque en Medio de las Ruinas and La […]

November 19-23, 2007 We began the week by welcoming a new volunteer Matt from Iowa and kicked things off with a much needed house cleanup. Then set out for the hills to water the Bosque en Medio de las Ruinas and La Cruz revegetation sites.  On Tuesday a traveler, Max, joined up for the day, and we showed him how to do things at Planet Drum […]