.August 27, 2008
August 25, 2008
A Bona Fide Weekly update!
Greetings Permaculture fans and Bona Fide supporters!!!,
Chris Shanks here updating folks on the comings and goings of Finca Bona Fide. We are going to try to do this weekly and we will see how it goes. Please send along feedback.
Well the last week in August is a busy one. We are finishing up almost three months of planting cover crops, corn, beans, rice, dozens of species of fruit and nut trees, legume trees, multi-use palms, bamboo and medicinal plants. Currently we are gearing up to finish a large wildlife corridor enhancement plan that includes 9 species of native fruits and one species of native nut. We are doing all of this whilst we finish the shelving units for 2000 used books from Spain that we will pick up this week. We just had a visit from Ken Knorr who along with hs daughter finished closing in the second floor of the community center. We now have power there and the work is moving forward faster with power tools from Chris' workshop. Tomorrow (tuesday the 26th) we will plant African oil palms, coconut palms and native thatch palms to finish up our agricultral reforestation efforts on a 2.5 acre piece of BF that we are currently reforesting.
The farm is producing nicely right now with guava, passionfruit, the last of the mangoes, coconuts, araza fruit and edible leaves.
Chris is heading to Leon this weekend to do some private consulting and he hopes to meet with the IPM (integrated pest management) researchers up in Leon to talk to them about giving a workshop at Bona Fide.
Be well all,
Bona Fide Team