Hey family and friends,
It´s your bloggers for the week, Claire and Natalie. We are here in Canoa, after a busy week at the organic farm Rio Muchacho. All week we woke up for farm activities at 5:30 am! We fed horses, pigs, chickens, and guinea pigs, watered plants, flowers and vegetables, cleaned up animal manure…and helped make breakfast with the senoras in the kitchen! Some of our other afternoon chores included dishes, weeding, irrigation trench digging and filling, planting, watering, etc. Although we had our hands full at the farm, we had an amazing time. Other than work, we learned about organic farming, composting, and living sustainably. Everything on the farm is 100% organic and renewable. There is no trash, and even our poop was composted to feed the plants around us, crazy we know, but its amazing how little a foot print we can make on the earth by living this way. We left with a ton of new knowledge and life lessons, not to forget how AMAZING the food was and how incredible it was to see it from in the soil to on our plates! Thank you so much to Nicole and Dario for having us and sharing with us their beautiful way of life.
Other afternoon activies on the farm included:
A visit to the local school funded by the farm,
Horseback riding,
Arts and Crafts,
Tours of the farm,
Classes on sustainability and organic farming,
Natural mud face masks,
Chocolate and cheese making,
Camp fire sing-a-long,
and enjoying the beautiful wildlife.
As part of our thank you and farewell to Rio Muchacho, we wrote our own lyrics to “Ain´t No Moutain High Enough”:
“We remember the day, not too long ago
When we first arrived at Rio Muchacho
From that day on, we made a vow
It would only be organic someway somehow
Cause baby there aint no weed thats strong enough
ain´t no ditch thats deep enough
ain´t no chanchos that stinks enough
to keep me from growing organic
Oh no darlin
No wind, no rain,
no winter storm can stop me baby
oh no babyyyy
Cause if your plants are in trouble, check the moon on the double
just send for benjamin
the seed is alive, way down in the soil
and juanita´s got that soup on boil
if you ever need a helping hand,
we´ll be there on the double,
JUST CALL CARPE DIEM!!
cause baby there”…..repeat chorus
