At the Corner of Life and Death
Finca Luna Nueva
by Tom Newmark
4M ago
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Latest Finca Luna Nueva Updates (July 2023)
Finca Luna Nueva
by Kimberly Barquero
9M ago
It’s been a deeply fulfilling year for us, and we finally have a chance to say hello and update you on the latest. So, where do we start? Did we mention how busy we are? Thank you, Thank you, and Thank you for all your wonderful support of our regenerative experience and mission. Let’s start from the beginning… A Beautiful and Rare Find Silky Anteater In the beginning of the year we found a a Silky Anteater near our turmeric field. These beautiful creatures are nocturnal and almost never descend to the ground. Due to the difficulty to find them in the wild, little is known about their social ..read more
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Edible Flowers of the Tropics
Finca Luna Nueva
by Kimberly Barquero
9M ago
Katie Rose Molina Browning and Scott Gallant As we look to find niches and stack functions in our tropical permaculture homesteads, one often overlooked group of plants include the edible flowers. With a focus on Costa Rica, this blog, authored primarily by Katie Browning, a certified herbalist, explores the many common and uncommon edible flowers available to us in the tropics. Most of these plants fit comfortably within the principles of permaculture and they can be described by the following set of patterns: Nearly all of these plants are perennial and can be described as perennial vegeta ..read more
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Regenerate and Rejoice at Finca Luna Nueva Lodge
Finca Luna Nueva
by Tom Newmark
9M ago
By Thomas Newmark, Finca Luna Nueva Lodge Make chocolate in the rainforest? Of course! You’ll take a thousand-year journey through the history of growing cacao and making chocolate, even using an ancient cacao grinding stone recovered from the Caribbean slope of the great Atlantic rainforest in Costa Rica. Plus, you get to drink and eat the tour, experiencing the spicy Mayan “Drink of the Gods,” the silky sweetness of our hot chocolate, and bars of chocolate flavored the way you, the jungle chocolatier, like it! Learn about the brightly flavorful medicinal honey of the famous “Mariol ..read more
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Join us for a Special Chocolate Retreat this fall!
Finca Luna Nueva
by Kimberly Barquero
9M ago
Cacao is a tool to open your heart. Keith Wilson Chocolate Yoga Retreat: Open your heart to joy, pleasure, and health. October 01-08, 2022. Join us on this journey of connecting with the energy of the cacao plant with the guidance of certified Iyengar Yoga Instructor: Verónica Flores. This can be a solo journey or shared with a friend or family member. Itinerary Day 1. We will meet you at the airport and take you to Finca Luna Nueva Lodge. Today you will be able to explore our hotel grounds, enjoy a fresh farm-to-table Dinner, and have a relaxing night’s sleep in the rainforest. Day 2. A ..read more
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Family and Friends at the Finca and Forest
Finca Luna Nueva
by Tom Newmark
9M ago
Our daughter Sara and her beautiful family (husband Drew and our grandkids Elias and Eloise) visited us a few weeks ago, and they brought with them a gang of friends and other family members. It was spring break meets family reunion at Finca Luna Nueva, and the group exchanged photos to share their memories. The adults kindly gave us permission to post these photos and tell about their trip, so this blog will thus answer the question: can three generations of friends and family have the time of their lives at Finca Luna Nueva? As you’ll see, the answer is a resounding yes! Who wants to eat som ..read more
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The Great Dance of Life
Finca Luna Nueva
by Tom Newmark
9M ago
I don’t eat meat so I can’t confirm this, but I’ve read that acorn-fed Iberico pigs in Spain have meat that tastes rich and nutty.   I once spent months in the French Alps on a meditation course, and I could tell from the flavor of the milk what the cows had been grazing on up in the meadows.   Clover milk?  Yummy!  Garlic milk on the other hand:  not so much…. These are anecdotes, but science has now confirmed  that when nursing mothers ate garlic, vanilla, bananas, caraway, anise, and menthol, chemical traces of those flavors were soon detectable in b ..read more
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Don’t Call Mother Nature a Sink!
Finca Luna Nueva
by Kimberly Barquero
9M ago
by Tom Newmark, Chairman of The Carbon Underground, and member of the CRARS Leadership Council Artwork by Sam Hepburn. Guilty! Many of us in the regenerative agriculture movement describe the world’s soils as a “sink” into which excess atmospheric carbon can be stored, and we’ve been wrong. That mistake has diminished the appeal of our concepts and, in some circles, made us seem irrelevant. We need new terminology before our movement suffers death by a word. Our intentions were good, but let’s review the birth and transmission of the sink meme. Humans, through the burning of fossil fuels and a ..read more
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“How can we survive here, in this never-before world?”
Finca Luna Nueva
by Tom Newmark
9M ago
The ecologist Carl Safina writes that “macaws are born to be wild. But becoming wild requires an education.” He wonders what happens when habitat loss or other pressures force them to relocate. What happens when caring humans rescue macaws and move them into a new region? Do those glorious creatures somehow ask “How can we survive here, in this never-before world?” After all, when macaws come to a new area, they need to learn what to eat, how to find food and shelter, and how to contend with the elements and predators. They actually need to develop a new language that fits their new environmen ..read more
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Edible Flowers of the Tropics
Finca Luna Nueva
by Kimberly Barquero
11M ago
Katie Rose Molina Browning and Scott Gallant As we look to find niches and stack functions in our tropical permaculture homesteads, one often overlooked group of plants include the edible flowers. With a focus on Costa Rica, this blog, authored primarily by Katie Browning, a certified herbalist, explores the many common and uncommon edible flowers available to us in the tropics. Most of these plants fit comfortably within the principles of permaculture and they can be described by the following set of patterns: Nearly all of these plants are perennial and can be described as perennial vegeta ..read more
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