tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45777765398945306052024-03-12T20:53:14.679-07:00Mama Roja: Sustainable Living RETREATS – INTERNSHIPS -- WORKSHOPS
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<span data-mce-style="color: #008000;" style="color: green;">We build out of Earth, plant in the gardens, and exchange workshops while living within the natural beauty of the land and continuously learning from the living world all around us.</span></h4>
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<strong><span data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: Bitstream Charter,serif;" style="color: black; font-family: Bitstream Charter,serif;">Internship in Sustainable Living:</span></strong></h1>
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<span data-mce-style="font-family: Bitstream Charter,serif;" style="font-family: Bitstream Charter,serif;"><span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;">(Course in Uruguay)</span> </span></h2>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;">October 3 - December 3, 2016</span></h1>
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<strong><span data-mce-style="font-family: Bitstream Charter,serif;" style="font-family: Bitstream Charter,serif;"><i>Natural Building, Organic Gardening, </i></span></strong></h3>
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<strong><span data-mce-style="font-family: Bitstream Charter,serif;" style="font-family: Bitstream Charter,serif;"><i>Natural Health and Pharmacy, Permaculture, </i></span></strong></h3>
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<strong><span data-mce-style="font-family: Bitstream Charter,serif;" style="font-family: Bitstream Charter,serif;"><i>Community Building & Self-Reliance... more!</i></span></strong></h3>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;"><em><span data-mce-style="font-family: Bitstream Charter,serif;" style="font-family: Bitstream Charter,serif;"><i>Now Accepting Applications</i></span></em></span></h2>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;"><span data-mce-style="font-family: Bitstream Charter,serif;" style="font-family: Bitstream Charter,serif;">We are offering an in-depth 8-week internship in Sauce, Uruguay together with <a data-mce-href="http://www.volviendoacasa.info" href="http://www.volviendoacasa.info/">Volviendo a Casa</a> for folks who are interested in getting hands-on experience in sustainable living: learn how to build your own house, plant your own gardens, design projects, and build new skills in many aspects of self-reliance including herbal medicines, fermentations, community design, and more!</span></span></h4>
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<span data-mce-style="font-family: Bitstream Charter,serif; color: #000000;" style="color: black; font-family: Bitstream Charter,serif;"><span data-mce-style="font-size: medium;" style="font-size: small;">Participants are encouraged to slow down, think, listen, and take time for personal development too. Interns will have time to go exploring in nature, read, craft, make art, share delicious meals, and do personal practices such as yoga and meditation. This will be a time of great personal learning and fun!</span></span></h4>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #008000;" style="color: green;">House building from the base up! Foundations, wall construction, finishing techniques, and creative use of site-found and salvaged materials.</span></h4>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #008000;" style="color: green;">Earthen Building Techniques: super adobe/earthbag, cob, wattle-and-daub, quincha, plastering and natural paint-making.</span></h4>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #008000;" style="color: green;">Design Principles: passive solar; water collection, treatment and drainage; waste management, smart design for health and aesthetics.</span></h4>
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<span data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;" style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span data-mce-style="color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;" style="color: black; text-decoration: underline;">Organic Gardening</span></strong></span></h4>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #008000;" style="color: green;">Garden-making from start to harvest! Sustainable small-scale food production: designing, tending, and harvesting. Creating gardens for the community and the school.</span></h4>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #008000;" style="color: green;">Techniques: bed-making, composting, natural fertilizers and pesticides, soil amendments, seed starting, transplanting seedlings, seed collecting and saving, reforestation, companion planting, food forests…etc.</span></h4>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #008000;" style="color: green;">Herbal medicine making (tinctures, salves, etc); Natural health and beauty products (soaps, deodorant, etc); Fermentations (cheeses, wine, Kombucha); Cultivation of micro-organisms for health and garden; Jarring and preserving; Natural food-making (bread, yoghurt, cheese, jam,etc).</span></h4>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #008000; font-family: Bitstream Charter,serif;" style="color: green; font-family: Bitstream Charter,serif;">Yoga, Meditation, Compassionate Communication, Documentary Films, Group Discussions, Deep Ecology, Community Meals, and Field Trips!</span><span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;"><strong><br /></strong></span></h4>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;">Workshop Days (Mon-Fri): 2-3 daily workshops co-led by our team of teachers</span></h4>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;">Also, interns will have the option to participate in guided yoga classes, group meditations, field trips, community service projects, sweat lodges, and more! </span></h4>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;">Weekends are free for exploring, joining a workshop, or resting.</span></h4>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;">We have a simple, healthy diet, with 3 delicious wholesome meals daily. In our community kitchen space on working days, we take turns in the meal preparations and clean-up. We cook with with fruits and veggies from our gardens and from other local farms. On days off, you can collaborate with others to cook, make your own meal, or eat out in town. If you have specific dietary needs or restrictions, please mention it in your application.</span></h4>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;"><span data-mce-style="font-family: Bitstream Charter,serif;" style="font-family: Bitstream Charter,serif;">This internship will take place in a rural community near Sauce, Uruguay, which is 1 hour from Montevideo and 1 hour from the beach. Here, two neighboring communities (started 20 years ago) are joined for the purpose of educating and skill-sharing, integrating Permaculture, health, natural construction, spirituality, and art-making (</span></span><span data-mce-style="color: #000080;" style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a data-mce-href="http://www.volviendoacasa.info/" href="http://www.volviendoacasa.info/"><span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;"><span data-mce-style="font-family: Bitstream Charter,serif;" style="font-family: Bitstream Charter,serif;">www.volviendoacasa.info</span></span></a></u></span></span><span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;"><span data-mce-style="font-family: Bitstream Charter,serif;" style="font-family: Bitstream Charter,serif;">). </span></span></h4>
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<span data-mce-style="font-family: Bitstream Charter,serif;" style="font-family: Bitstream Charter,serif;"><span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;">The community (about 60 people, including children) shares 30 hectares of land, with a creek and wooded area. There is a small school, community buildings, and individual houses. The community is made up of a diverse group of people: doctors, community organizers, builders, bio-chemists, plant-medicine healers, therapists, etc.</span> </span></h4>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;">We have shared bedrooms in the community house, available on a first-come basis. </span></h4>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;">There is lots of space for camping. You will need to bring your own gear.</span></h4>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;"><strong>Community Spaces and Amenities</strong>:</span></h3>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;">We eat our meals together as a group one of the community houses.</span></h4>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;">There are community bathrooms with hot showers and dry composting toilets.</span></h4>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;">There is a sala/great room for personal practices (like yoga, tai chi or meditation), or for evening workshops.</span></h4>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;">There is a shared laundry machine or hand-washing, and there is a drop-off laundry service in town.</span></h4>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;">We have a shared Library with books on sustainability, Permaculture, gardeing, etc</span></h4>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;">Fun social activities with the community.</span></h4>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;"><strong>Course Languages</strong>: English and Spanish</span></h4>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;"><strong>Tuition</strong> <b>Contribution:</b></span></h3>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #008000;" style="color: green;"><span data-mce-style="font-family: Bitstream Charter,serif;" style="font-family: Bitstream Charter,serif;"><b>US$1900 </b></span></span></h4>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #008000;" style="color: green;"><span data-mce-style="font-family: Bitstream Charter,serif;" style="font-family: Bitstream Charter,serif;">I</span><span data-mce-style="font-family: Bitstream Charter,serif;" style="font-family: Bitstream Charter,serif;">ncludes the full 8-week course, instructions and workshops, accommodation, and meals. </span></span></h4>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #008000;" style="color: green;"><span data-mce-style="font-family: Bitstream Charter,serif;" style="font-family: Bitstream Charter,serif;">Early Reservation Discount (confirming before Aug 1)</span><span data-mce-style="font-family: Bitstream Charter,serif;" style="font-family: Bitstream Charter,serif;">: <strong>US$1750</strong></span></span></h4>
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<span data-mce-style="font-family: Bitstream Charter,serif; color: #000000;" style="color: black; font-family: Bitstream Charter,serif;">Camping discount available.</span></h5>
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<span data-mce-style="font-family: Bitstream Charter,serif; color: #000000;" style="color: black; font-family: Bitstream Charter,serif;">A non-refundable deposit will be due upon confirmation to reserve your spot. The remainder of your contribution can be paid upon arrival.</span></h5>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;">All contributions are greatly appreciated and go toward helping us provide community buildings and workshops.</span></h5>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;"><strong>How to apply</strong></span></h2>
<span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;"><em>Considering the length and intensity of this program we would like to know more about you and make sure </em><em><em>what we offer fits your needs. </em>There are no prerequisites to participation, but we choose our interns carefully according to interests, passion for learning, commitment level, and personal skills. </em><em><em>Also, the size of the group is limited to ensure that everyone can accomplish their individual learning needs. Participants will be accepted on a rolling basis. </em></em></span><br />
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;"><b>Write a short letter introducing yourself, answering the following questions</b>:</span><br />
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;">1) General information: What is your age, sex (if not obvious by your name), how do you occupy your time (work, school, etc.), and where do you live?</span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;">2) What experience do you have with building and/or gardening/farming?</span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;">3) Why do you want to participate in this program?</span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;">4) How do you hope to integrate the experience/learning into your life?</span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;">5) Describe your experience living and/or working in community.</span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;">6) Do you have any emotional or health difficulties that are affecting your life now?</span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;">7) Do you have any special dietary needs or allergies?</span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;">8) What is your preferred accommodation?</span> </div>
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Please send your letter and any questions you may have to <a data-mce-href="mailto:mama.roja@yahoo.com" href="https://www.blogger.com/null">mama.roja@yahoo.com</a>.</h4>
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<strong><span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;"><span data-mce-style="font-family: Bitstream Charter,serif;" style="font-family: Bitstream Charter,serif;">Course Facilitators: </span></span></strong></h4>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;"><span data-mce-style="font-family: Bitstream Charter,serif;" style="font-family: Bitstream Charter,serif;">Kimberly Gossett:</span></span><em><span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;"><span data-mce-style="font-family: Bitstream Charter,serif;" style="font-family: Bitstream Charter,serif;"> Program Coordinator, Co-Founder of Mama Roja Project, Yoga Teacher, Meditator</span></span></em></h5>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;"><span data-mce-style="font-family: Bitstream Charter,serif;" style="font-family: Bitstream Charter,serif;">Valentin Rivero:</span></span><em><span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;"><span data-mce-style="font-family: Bitstream Charter,serif;" style="font-family: Bitstream Charter,serif;"> Program Coordinator, Co-Founder of La Tierrita Community and Volviendo a Casa, Artist and Clown</span></span></em></h5>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;"><span data-mce-style="font-family: Bitstream Charter,serif;" style="font-family: Bitstream Charter,serif;">Lucia Pluma:</span></span><em><span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;"><span data-mce-style="font-family: Bitstream Charter,serif;" style="font-family: Bitstream Charter,serif;"> Social Permaculturist, Liason for the Global Ecovillage Network (genecovillage.org...), Co-Founder of La Tierrita Community and Volviendo a Casa</span></span></em></h5>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;"><span data-mce-style="font-family: Bitstream Charter,serif;" style="font-family: Bitstream Charter,serif;">Luciano Davyt:</span></span><em><span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;"><span data-mce-style="font-family: Bitstream Charter,serif;" style="font-family: Bitstream Charter,serif;"> Natural Builder and Permaculturist, Co-Founder of La Tierrita Community and Volviendo a Casa</span></span></em></h5>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;"><span data-mce-style="font-family: Bitstream Charter,serif;" style="font-family: Bitstream Charter,serif;">Leticia Cabrera:</span></span><em><span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;"><span data-mce-style="font-family: Bitstream Charter,serif;" style="font-family: Bitstream Charter,serif;"> Natural Medicine Maker and Healer, Gardener Extraordinaire, Co-Founder of La Tierrita Community and Volviendo a Casa </span></span></em></h5>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;"><span data-mce-style="font-family: Bitstream Charter,serif;" style="font-family: Bitstream Charter,serif;">Daniel Etulain:</span></span><em><span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;"><span data-mce-style="font-family: Bitstream Charter,serif;" style="font-family: Bitstream Charter,serif;"> Yoga Instructor, Meditator, Natural Health Consultant, Co-Founder of La Comarca Community and Volviendo a Casa </span></span></em></h5>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;"><span data-mce-style="font-family: Bitstream Charter,serif;" style="font-family: Bitstream Charter,serif;">Marta Bonora:</span></span><em><span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;"><span data-mce-style="font-family: Bitstream Charter,serif;" style="font-family: Bitstream Charter,serif;"> Psychologist and Alternative Therapist, Co-Founder of La Comarca Community and Volviendo a Casa</span></span></em></h5>
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<em><span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;"><span data-mce-style="font-family: Bitstream Charter,serif;" style="font-family: Bitstream Charter,serif;">...And other members of the community who will offer their expertise in weekly guest workshops and activities.</span></span></em></h5>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;"><strong>Who is the Internship for?</strong></span></h3>
<span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;"><strong>Anyone who:</strong></span><br />
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<li><span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;">Wants to connect with other like-minded people, with Nature, with themselves.</span></li>
<li><span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;">Wants to explore gardening and food growing in a sub-tropical climate.</span></li>
<li><span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;">Has taken courses in Natural Building and wants to continue experimenting.</span></li>
<li><span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;">Has studied Environmental Sciences, has taken a Permaculture Design Course, or studied similar subjects, and wants to put their skills into practice.</span></li>
<li><span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;">Has no self-reliancy skills, no gardening experience, or has never built out of Earth, but really wants to.</span></li>
<li><span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;">Needs a pause from their routine, a time-out to try on a simple lifestyle.</span></li>
<li><span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;">Wants to spend time living in a beautiful jungle, surrounded by trees, animals, rivers and waterfalls.</span></li>
<li><span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;">Wants to improve health and well-being by living in harmony with the cycles of nature and a more natural rhythm.</span></li>
<li><span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;">Wants to gain insight into personal gifts and have the opportunity to give them creative expression.</span></li>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;">For more information or questions, contact us at <a data-mce-href="mailto:mama.roja@yahoo.com" href="https://www.blogger.com/null"><span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;">mama.roja@yahoo.com</span></a></span><br />
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Summer is bumping up against us, nudging us into her heat, and opening us up in unexpected ways.<br />
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Our 13th internship just completed. Thank you to the great interns who shared the experience and gave so much love to Mama Roja and themselves. <br />
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We had workshops on those rainy days, making herbal medicines, liqueurs, soaps, etc: <br />
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The inside look at our homemade Fire Cider: onions, garlic, horseradish, tumeric, ginger, cayenne, honey, and apple cider vinegar... delicious immune system booster.<br />
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Soaps: old time hand soap, glycerine, and aloe vera too </div>
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Kitchen on the go... meal-time prep flurry.<br />
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Bloom pause.<br />
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Building the back cabin; bottles going in.<br />
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Plaster going up...<br />
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School group visits....<br />
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Field trip to the Chacra Suiza... fields abloom...<br />
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The sweat lodge rebuild and a lovely prayer ceremony.<br />
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Pizza party costume Fiesta...<br />
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THANK YOU! to a great group of patient and extraordinary beings who came together to share this surprising and beautiful experience!<br />
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Spring is full of flowers and roots, work and play, songs and fires, bunnies and dogs...<br />
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Sweet insistent Tumeric, oh how you keep surprising us in the garden! Numerous, generous, a fantastic harvest.<br />
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The garden is full of delight. Even the butterflies plant themselves in the beds... of course, bunny manure is seducing magic... <br />
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Making Micro-Orgasmic Cocktail fertilizer for the new beds... eggshells, leaves from the forest, yeast, cane sugar, bunny manure, cow manure (aged for added fragrance), grass clippings, wild plants, and a little anaerobic patience, and voila! Excellence for the soil!<br />
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Also, we've been exploring natural paint making...<br />
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...and testing it on the walls of the back bedroom in the House on the Hill.<br />
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Forking... leads to spooning?<br />
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Eating mulberry pie! Mia, the kitchen goddess, is full of surprises!<br />
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The elephant grass, alas, found another use... mulch! <br />
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Sheet-mulching (aka the play), with chopped banana stems and leaves, humanure compost, sawdust, bunny compost, chicken bedding, and elephant grass mulch. Ready to go! <br />
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Maria being discreet.<br />
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The new mud cabin, getting bottled up. <br />
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Dreamy wall building...<br />
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Excursions in the forest to find medicine plants...<br />
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And wild mushroom harvesting! <br />
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Never too much elephant grass...<br />
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Bunny love!<br />
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There has been a pause in these blog entries, during which time we have been taking a breath, making new projects, finishing some old ones, and preparing ourselves for the imminent inhale. <br />
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Meanwhile, the jungle goes on... the flowers of winter are giving way to the flowers of spring. The fruits are plumping up on the papayas that didn't freeze over winter.<br />
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The citrus flowers are perfuming the air (too bad this photo can't be a scratch-n-sniff.) </div>
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And the ginger and tumeric roots are literally popping our of the ground, desperate to be harvested. </div>
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The forest is also producing a rainbow of colors in all its hidden corners.<br />
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In the animal world of Mama Roja, Taca is still on the roam, now with parrot friends, a breakthrough! He still comes around everyday for his beakful of seeds and some cooing and coddling from Kim. <br />
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The rabbits are turning out bunnies; the latest ones here in their fur-nest are Yin and Yang. <br />
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The chickens' favorite time of day is still Happy Hour.<br />
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And we humans have been hard at work doing some remodels and fancying things up, with mud of course.<br />
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The community kitchen got a new paint-plastering.<br />
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And a new dish-washing sink...<br />
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And a little Mexican tile and paint.<br />
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And since this winter has been fairly mild, we have been able to enjoy the river with our visitors and friends. River baths, waterfall dips, music circles, and more.<br />
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A "where's Rambo?" final shot:<br />
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Summer is trickling to an end, and as usual, the butterflies are soaking up the sweet nectars. <br />
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Flowers abound, even the giant bananas are hanging their blooms.<br />
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When we are not lost in our siesta dreams or soaking in the river, we have been working on the new cabin with our kooky interns. <br />
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Adobe walls going up....<br />
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Fermenting is always a great summer activity: all those yeasts are partying it up in this heat! Here our ginger bug for homemade ginger beer, and a roselle flower ferment for exquisite and refreshing juice.<br />
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Ginger flower in the gardens...<br />
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Tumeric flower...<br />
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Santa Lucia flower with guest...<br />
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Other activities:<br />
Here's our new sweat lodge/ temascal getting its bamboo frame tied together. <br />
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The cob-n-bottle wall in the new chicken coop/rabbit apartments. Excellent recycling project!<br />
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Speaking of rabbits, here we are tanning some hides. We plan to make some crafts with the furs, so we can really use the whole animal. <br />
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The wood counter top goes into the house on the hill.<br />
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Churning out oodles of our favorite snack, peanut butter!<br />
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Mama Rabbit birthed 5 more little cuties. <br />
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The garden is fairing okay, considering the rain and intense sun of this season. The grasshoppers still think everything is delicious. Now we start planting again! </div>
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Woosh! Time just slips by, and this update is long overdue!<br />
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The internship was a beautiful experience, and everyone had lots of fun...<br />
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Our pizza-halloween extravaganza proved to be a creatively costumed delight, full of silliness, gluttony, and dark dancing spirits...<br />
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Even the bread got dressed up! <br />
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We've had lots of visitors too. School groups coming out to tour the earthen cabins, see the beautiful rivers and trees, and share a delicious lunch with us.<br />
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Kettle's on for maté and chapattis.<br />
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Rambo guarding the new cabin workers from the lurking Curupí!<br />
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Mud sculptures on the new cabin... <br />
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Bottles and car windows in the top of the cabin...<br />
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The butterflies like our muddy work site... <br />
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Before putting up second plaster, we framed in the windows...<br />
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Bottles-n-mud wall...<br />
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Outside mud-tree-plaster-art...<br />
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Fixing up the yoga shala bath hut...<br />
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Natural paints make it great!<br />
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More mud feathers!<br />
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The bunnies! Mama Rabbit birthed 9 little creatures in her furry nest box.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thanks to this fantastic group of interns who gave so much love to Mama Roja!! We wish you well on your journeys, and and we know we'll see some of you again soon!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And Josefina!! Good golly, we'll miss you and your good cookin! Thanks for all that apron-wearing, fire-starting love!!</span> <br />
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The flowers are calling the butterflies out of their cocoons, and the birds are whistling love songs to each other in the trees. The air is getting hotter as summer approaches, and the jungle is bursting with green. <br />
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Not only are there wild birds (like the whistle-screamer mohawked fellow above), but our own feathered flock increased in size: new chicks!<br />
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And introducing (drum roll here): our new bunnies!! <br />
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We have three new little bunnies, and one mama rabbit due to have a new litter any day now. More photos to come (of course).<br />
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We've been filling the garden with heat-loving plants, and fighting back the over-abundance of grasshoppers this season. <br />
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But all this heat and rain has done the fungal world lots of good.<br />
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We took a meandering foray into the woods to look at the mycelium in all its wonderful forms. <br />
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This one, for example, is a rough-tough shroom on the outside...<br />
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... and fabulously zebra-striped on the inside!<br />
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This is a type of Parasol mushroom that we found growing wild, and are now trying to propagate for eating. Mmmmm...<br />
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Mushrooms in mud??<br />
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Speaking of mud buildings, our cabin is going up up up: <br />
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Adobes in line, and bottles going in:<br />
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Windows fixed in for added light.<br />
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Bottles, wattle-n-cob in the inbetween spaces.<br />
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Bottles-jewels and car windows, cobbed into place. More indirect lighting.<br />
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We just started the plaster layers, so soon enough the cabin will be ready for final touches.<br />
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The local school kids came out for a visit, and then made a mock-up of Mama Roja to present in a state-wide ecology competition. They won round 1, so now they are off to spread the word at the next level. The model was made out of mud and recycled materials. They included so many details: solar panel, fire circle, solar cooker, cabins, trees, the yoga shala, even the African-style fridge in the community kitchen! We wish them good luck!<br />
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Bread-art: (crazy interns!)<br />
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Our intern field trip to visit Paulina at the Chacra Suiza. <br />
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Bonus photo: pollinator and iris.<br />
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Flowers poking their heads out of the jungle, butterflies flitting about, gardens getting planted, mud forming into buildings... it's spring at Mama Roja!<br />
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The flutterers are about, as are the creepy-crawlers in all their magnificent outfits dressed up for the springtime parade..<br />
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Our new kitchen is getting lots of use! We didn't paint the walls yet, but that rich red-brown is it's own lovely color.<br />
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The pantry: lime-painted, and full of preserves (and more coming.)<br />
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Look closely for the bird in one of his favorite observation spots.<br />
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And look for the cat in her sneaky watch-spot...<br />
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It was a rainy winter, and it is proving to be an equally rainy spring. So, our interns are in full workshop mode, here making papaya jam and peanut butter. Sandwiches for lunch? <br />
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Lemoncello and orange-lemoncello on their way! <br />
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Out of the kitchen, into the jungle: New composts and worm bins set up for all organic donations.<br />
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Gathering flowers and other herbs for our skin-tastic salves.<br />
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The gardens are growing! We recently opened up a new spot higher up in the valley where we are putting in lots of beds and plants.<br />
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Hugelkulture joy!<br />
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Our neighbors have been helping us harvest the yerba mate and prep the fields for crop planting. <br />
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In between the yerba goes the mandioca, peanuts, and even some tumeric. Later, we'll add in some sable beans for nitrogen, and some experimental quinoa.<br />
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It's a mandioca hoe-down!<br />
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One of our many visitors: this one's eyeing the loquats and other high-growing tree fruits. <br />
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Careful where you land, little friend. That's our meal table!<br />
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Mushroom delights after all these rain storms. The fascinating world of forest fungi!<br />
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But we can't just frolic in the woods all day! We have a cabin to construct. Here's the roof frame going up up up...<br />
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And the stem walls (with bamboo rebar) for the adobes going on top.<br />
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The adobe bricks lining up on that gorgeous red floor. The walls are on their way!<br />
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Bonus shots:<br />
Looking closely at the trees, there are so many things growing...<br />
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... the trees are full of life...<br />
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A match made in heaven: Taca and Josephine teaching each other to dance and draw. <br />
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The threshold where the two world meet, Winter turns to Spring. The temperatures are rising, butterflies are crawling out of their cocoons, and flowers are saluting the sun with their open petals.<br />
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We are also celebrating the wonderful power of the sun. Our solar cooker is providing us with gorgeous meals and treats. <br />
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Mmmm, perfectly moist and exquisitely delicious sun-cooked cake. (Yes, we're bragging.)<br />
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We use the sun-cooker everyday (that it doesn't rain), and everything just tastes better! Even our chicken's golden gifts are more flavorful sun-fried.<br />
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Not to lose balance of important driving forces, there is also the power of Water, which has been very present this rainy winter. Here is Taca modeling his/her new stick-perch by our house, passing the overnight rainstorm huddled under a banana leaf, meditating no doubt. <br />
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Pre-soaked seeds on their way to the gardens.<br />
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The humidity in the air also gives rise to such pleasures as fungi:<br />
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They are just so pretty!<br />
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By the rivers, the flowers dance and burst.<br />
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But... the evil elephant grass is also celebrating the rain. We are clearing it out of the field, and we have high hopes that this will be the year of eradicating it completely, so that our crops can thrive without being choked out by its dark selfish forces.<br />
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We are also steadily working on several other projects. Here, we've broken ground on the new cabin planned to built with mud and love with our incoming interns: <br />
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Other happenings: the calendulas are stretching open in the medicine gardens:<br />
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And some final photos of what's around:<br />
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We love Plantain!<br />
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Sweet delight in finishing up projects and programs, and moving forward into the next cycle of renewal.<br />
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Thank you to all our interns for these last couple of months of good learning and growing! <br />
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We put the final plasters on the new kitchen entension...<br />
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We fancied up the sculptures and are getting ready to lay the floor.<br />
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The banana mulched double-dug garden beds, soon to be filled with cabbage, kale, parsley, mustard, and more!<br />
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Still having fun with forest fungal finds...<br />
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The lower gardens getting a boost of compost (and love) for the winter... <br />
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The bath hut for the yoga shala is in use! <br />
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Mirror mosaics, lime paint, and rock entrance ready! <br />
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Laying the entryway with river stones:<br />
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Detail work cleaning off the bottles and mosaics:<br />
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And viola! The yoga retreat happening with a finished bath hut nearby!<br />
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Sweet child's pose in our Santosha Yoga Retreat-- a great success!<br />
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Thanks yoga friends! <br />
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Moving right along into the Temazcal (sweat lodge) and Ceremony to wind up this cycle's learning journey. Here's our fire to heat the rocks, and the mud turtle altar to point us in the right direction. <br />
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All clean? Great! Now let's have cake!<br />
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Bonus Photo: Butterfly and perfectly poised yoga toes!<br />
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After the recent rains, the forest is alive with fungi. Life on the forest floor is particularly fascinating these days... <br />
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We just found our biggest mushroom yet-- it stands open up to our knees!<br />
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Big enough to be a plate...<br />
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...or a house for a little Turkish gnome?<br />
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Another fungus, maybe just about to open?<br />
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Looking around, we spot fungi everywhere. The minis... pink and perfectly stacked on a stick.<br />
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The extraterrestrials...<br />
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The fallic and stinky...<br />
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The popcorn puff balls...<br />
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Pushing through the grasses...<br />
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Hiding around the cabins...<br />
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Even in the pine needles next door...<br />
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This one used to be attached to a tree. This is the underside...<br />
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But we don't just go around looking at fungi all day. We do actually work sometimes. Here's us mud-plastering the kitchen extention...<br />
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And the bath hut's back wall, woven around a window space, to be filled with an old car window...<br />
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The cob mix covers the weaving...<br />
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Cute and useful, a bath hut for the yoga shala...<br />
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Using bottles in between our adobe bricks, good for letting light in, and recycling our extra glass.<br />
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Structure complete! Now we need to plaster...<br />
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Garden work, planting seed flats and getting some veggies growing for the winter...<br />
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Workshop in lemoncello making...<br />
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Mixing the lime floor plaster for the House on the Hill's back bedroom...<br />
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Air potatoes flying over the garden!<br />
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Bananart.<br />
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Bonus photo: "My fruit!"<br />
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Fall is sweetening the jungle air, the internship has brought in new energies, and Mama Roja is as beautiful as ever. The month started quite a bit of much needed rain, which brought in friends from all over...<br />
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And the muddy world masked us with her clay. Mud is medicine!<br />
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A television crew came out to film our project...<br />
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...and they are putting up an educational multi-part series on channel 12 of Misiones. The first part can be seen at: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bPIF64l-48&feature=youtu.be">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bPIF64l-48&feature=youtu.be</a><br />
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Plaster-tastic!<br />
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Who was around to supervise our mud plastering, besides the tv crew? Taca, of course! <br />
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More friends in surprising places...<br />
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Rainy days means workshops under the dry kitchen roof. Wild pear jam on it's way:<br />
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... and peanut butter too!<br />
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Once the sun came back out, we put on our boots and headed to the garden. Here we're putting in a sheet mulch/hugelkultur bed for native tree saplings.<br />
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Using the sun to its maximum: our new solar cooker! Hat and glasses are not just for looking cool anymore... <br />
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What did we cook first? Fresh eggs, solar boiled in under 10 mintues!<br />
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We've started a new building project too. A little bath hut adjacent to the yoga shala. For when meditation moves you...<br />
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Each wall will be a different earthen building technique. Here we're weaving the back wall with bamboo, which is the start to "wattle-n-cob".<br />
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River stone and packed earth floor, re-re-recycled roof, and walls in the works. <br />
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The view from the builders andn creepers!<br />
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A final shot of the darn cute kittens. <br />
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Bonus photo: a rear view. <br />
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The dawg days of summer, the jungle humidity, the refreshing river, the squeak of the hammock. Not a lot to do 'round here in the summer, except watch the plants press their life force into flowery blooms, observe yet another batch of kittens crawling into the world, and rehabilitate forest fauna, like a Parrot.<br />
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So, this is Maitaca, or "Taca." He is our latest community member, having come to us via pure jungle luck. While opening a trail to a new bathing spot in the river, Kim heard a "squawk" and saw a flapping green blur on the ground under the leaves, which turned out to be Taca, a baby Scaly-headed Maitaca Parrot. He couldn't really walk, much less fly, but he was so darn cute, and something in those beady little bird eyes said "save me..." So, we hand fed him for a week or so before he settled down and started eating all on his own. We fashioned a roomy cage for him, complete with ladders and a rope swing. We sang to him, rocked him in the hammock, did exercises to strengthen his little legs and wings... not that any of this is official bird etiquette, but with the sparse advice the vet gave us and some inventions of our own, we are proud to say he is a changed bird! <br />
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Talk about a quick recovery! Now he eats,
walks, flies, talks... everything but tap dance, but we're working on
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And by a wonderful turn of events, he is totally cage-free, flying in from
the jungle (still working on his landing aim), and just
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Also introducing: the new kittens (yes, 4 more!) that Chicha birthed right under everyone's feet in the patio. She snuck in her love affair with the neighbor's tomcat right around the holidays, and so there's more little furballs than ever now. We keep talking to her about the benefits of celibacy, but she just doesn't listen... <br />
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The kitties are making friends with Lulu. This is very progressive for Lulu, who has been working on her fear of small mobile creatures that she knows she shouldn't eat. <br />
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Some of the gang lounging and chatting. (We're gonna miss you!)<br />
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Flowers abound: even in this heat (or maybe especially) there are delightful blooms everywhere...<br />
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Loofas and squashes of all sorts on the way...<br />
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Butterflies just can't get enough Mexican sunflowers...<br />
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Itty bitty garden blooms hosting curious ants.<br />
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This is a two-part tumeric flower... Part 1:<br />
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Part 2: <br />
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Put your feet up, and see what the aromas might attract.<br />
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We're bananas for bananas.<br />
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Even in the summer, the clouds rest easy in our valley.<br />
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Bonus shot: Meghan tries to learn Spanish from Maitaca, but he's already surpassed her level...<br />
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So many fluttering friends as we transition through yet another season at Mama Roja. The internship has just finished, the Yoga Retreat and Ceremony were beautiful experiences, and we are wrapping up the year with deep gratitude and prayers for all that is to come. </div>
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Artichokes at the Chacra Suiza, our bi-annual tour to a well-established sustainable farm.</div>
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Chicha and her mini saying goodbye-- all the kittens have homes! <br />
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The kitchen extension has a roof:<br />
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Plastering the adobe walls:<br />
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Plastering bliss in pantry spaciousness:<br />
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Working on the arching doorway:<br />
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Trees inside and out!<br />
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Always room for more butterfly pictures.<br />
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...and flowers, starting to creep up and through the garden:<br />
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Do butterflies do yoga?<br />
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After a great class... ah, sweet shavasana.<br />
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Thank you Buena Onda and all the yoga participants! Gorgeous time of sharing and learning!<br />
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Heaven in the jungle... butterflies floating through the frangrant spring air... adobe bricks stacking into a kitchen wall... old wine bottles repurposed into window-jewels...<br />
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The dream of the community kitchen is mudding its way into reality:<br />
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Window lintel installation.<br />
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View of the kitchen expansion:<br />
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The walk-in pantry! <br />
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Peep hole... or future shelf hole support? <br />
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From wine vessels to windows... the pleasure of bottling up the walls:<br />
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Preparing for the arching doorway:<br />
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Pause in the blog post for ridiculously cute kitten photos:<br />
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Okay, now with that out of our system, we can proceed onto the other things we've been doing: Nettle beer!! We've also been fermenting our mulberries into wine, and our ginger into ginger ale! <br />
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Soap experiments:<br />
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Always new friends popping in for a visit.<br />
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And why not? A halloween pizza party, jungle-style, complete with costumes, dancing, live music, and even a little fire-juggling and -spitting! <br />
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The internship is underway, and the gardens are really growing!<br />
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We had to get a handle on the misbehaving birds, who are enjoying our gardens a little too much. We spent an afternoon making bird scare devices out of recycled and repurposed things. We had some very creative and truly scary inventions: an old potato wearing chicken feathers, a headless scare crow with extra large boobs, tinkering tin cans, a pirate plastic ghost, and lots of old cds to flash in the eys of would-be seed stealers! <br />
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Tumeric planting!<br />
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Purple carrot harvesting!<br />
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Poor interns, suffering from so much work after making a Hugelculture squash bed. <br />
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Mandala gardens resurrected and replanted!<br />
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A happy haven for our redworms in the works, with recycled tires and a liquid compost catchment system! <br />
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Peanuts coming up in the fields!<br />
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The kitchen extention is rising up!<br />
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Lots of mud and bottles--over 200 so far!<br />
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Cob'n'bottles. A good excuse to drink more red wine!<br />
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Always time for siesta time crafting and spanish lessons. <br />
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Of love and mud.<br />
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Up, up it goes. <br />
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More building photos to come soon!<br />
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Bonus photo: El Arbol de la Vida - The Tree of Life, mud sculpture in the house on the hill.<br />
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Spring is <i>finally</i> here. Pollinators abound...<br />
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And the jungle is breathing sweetly.<br />
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The trees are budding nips of life-vibrant green.<br />
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And we've added some trees to the forest too. We planted fruiting and flowering trees inbetween the adolescent native trees. Food forest on it's way! <br />
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Kim and Marcelo's bedroom is finally plastered, planted and sealed! This picture is of the closet wall freshly clay-and-starch painted, and the wood sticking out is for the built-in shelves. (Better photos to come, with us installed.)<br />
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The internship has started, and the soil is brewing. New pallet-walled compost to complete the circle, feeding our relationship to the land.<br />
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And speaking of earth, we're back at the mud-stomping.<br />
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Laying adobes for the kitchen expansion and walk-in pantry!<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The gardens: full of blooms...<br />
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...and worms!<br />
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Bonus photos: Curious friends.<br />
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Copulation on crystals.<br />
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True to the sub-tropical winter weather patterns, the butterflies are drying their new wings in the wave of heat that heaved in just after the frost. <br />
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We harvested the "culantrillo" (english name, anyone?) that was growing in the sweat lodge floor to make a tincture. And of course we have had some winter sweats already... and quick dips in the river, oddly refreshing, and bursting with extremes.<br />
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Big news on the animal front... we are building a new animal sanctuary/barn/house. We will be breaking ground this week! And we now have a new black duck 9traded one of our white ones with a neighbor), who is refusing to be around the old aviary, except for breakfast, even though he has a gorgeous lady duck throwing him the flirtacious tale move and awfully long glances. I think he thinks he found paradise swimming around in the waterfall pool. <br />
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And our neighbors are loaning us their cows to help us clear our field for spring planting. Elephant grass in, fertilizer out. Good for everyone. <br />
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And we get to milk the mama cow! <br />
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This means dulce de leche, cheese, and hot cocoa delights!<br />
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That baby cow is cute, but he sure is Ornery... so that's what we named him. <br />
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Fresh cut banana stems, the leafy greens frost-bit and turned into mulch.<br />
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Which one's the duck egg and which is the chicken?<br />
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Hey, we're not the only ones living in a mud house in the neighborhood. Except how'd they get theirs in a tree?<br />
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Bonus photo: My first view in the morning. Full teets. <br />
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So we trickle into winter, leaving a trail of mud-gumdrops behind us. So many projects completed, and Mama Roja is as gorgeous as ever! <br />
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This is the new and improved castle bathroom, plastered up with love and smooth delight.<br />
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Sweet gorgeous comfrey... she wanted to be photographed in all her glory.<br />
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Mosaic over the community bathhouse sink.<br />
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Yoga, plastering, and life lessons. Balance and breath are essential.<br />
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The second plaster coat on the House ont he Hill. <br />
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The fine-tuning on column plastering.<br />
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The bedroom wooden floor-- complete! Installed, sanded, painted, all by Marcelo. Hermoso!! <br />
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Ghana-style dancing anyone? Our interns learned a sweet (and silly) dance, complete with swingy-legged hand-flapping and bump-be-dump-de-dump-bump and beep-e-deep-e-dee-beeps. <br />
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A field trip to the Chakra Suiza and a good investingation of their bio-gas system just off their dairy. <br />
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Of course there was pizza night... <br />
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More Mexican sunflowers still popping up everywhere.<br />
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Reforming one of the cabins of course is delicate work, so Rambo needs to stand guard at all times.<br />
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The cabin was mud-prepped and painted red!<br />
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The cabin's inhabitant, managing the yerba mate rounds while we work.<br />
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The castle bathroom seems to have a permanent lady in waiting... literally.<br />
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The life-sized scupltural creation-- a lady on the earthbag bench-- what's she waiting on? Conjectures...?<br />
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Thank you to to the fabulous and fun interns who made these last few months a pleasure and an all-around fantastic experience. Much love and light to you all on your journeys. Besos!<br />
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Sweet April is here, and our projects are keeping us in the mud and full of spunk...<br />
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The Castle Bathhouse is looking fabulous: the final plasters are going over the adobe bricks and earthbags... <br />
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...the "waiting bench" is getting smoothed... <br />
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...plaster delight!<br />
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...almost there...<br />
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In the garden, we are still preping the beds for our little plantlings for our winter crops...<br />
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...and itty bitty seeds go into the ground...<br />
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Fresh from the earth, mandioca root and her harvesting goddess:<br />
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And Jax is keeping the kitchen team in line and aproned up:<br />
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Oh, and the recycling center gets some organizing love too. We have just gone trash-free and are now producing eco-bricks (full explanation and photos to come...)<br />
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Little flowers everywhere!<br />
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Mandarine marmalade, bubbling iridescently in the afternoon light. <br />
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The community bathhouse extention is just about complete. Bottles to finish the wall...<br />
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Everyone finds a little inspiration from the farm dog Rambo.<br />
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Plastering goes on.<br />
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And the sink is installed, and a mirror mosaic dazzles up the mud wall.<br />
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New stairs to the watering hole.<br />
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Ooh, and we had our first sweat in our new sweat lodge! In the easy light of morning, we sat together in the steaming womb of the lodge right by the river, sang songs of joy, and celebrated the Easter dawn.<br />
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Bonus shot: anyone know what type of mushroom this is poking out from under our trees? <br />
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With summer subsiding
and fall tempuratures finally here, we are back in the swing of
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After leaving the
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itself into giant jungle madness! Taller-than-human-sized flowers,
peppers popping and poking out of the beds, long-necked super squash
hanging in the trees, and lots of other fantastic surprises!</div>
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Lettuce seeds
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Sheet mulch garden
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<span style="font-size: small;">And we're back to the mud-stomping:</span>
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Working with tight wall
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Earthbag bench making.</div>
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Stomping the bags into
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Laying adobe bricks for
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Speaking of creatures,
our duck family (totalling 7 now!) and chicken commune (countless and
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The other building
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Putting up adobes over the sink area, prepping a flat surface for our soon-to-be-created mirror mosaic. </div>
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Tincture making with wild medicinal plants:</div>
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Apertif and liqueur
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And if you lose a
late-night game, you might just have to bathe Rambo! (He <i>loves</i>
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In the extra time (as
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floor of the House on the Hill's bedrooms. Mud walls and local
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Beetle Balls! Check
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So much to be grateful for at this year's ending! The marvelous nature around us, the lessons learned in each day's work, the fabulous people who gravitate toward Mama Roja, and all the poetry of a homesteading life in the jungle. <br />
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Thanks for another gorgeous internship! We wrapped up the program with mud plastered sculptures and mosaics. <br />
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Mud vines wrapping the outside porch of the house on the hill. <br />
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Giant sunshines with great ceramic tentacles! Wow! High art!<br />
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Our dear, sweet, well-behaved interns...<br />
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Memories of peanuts and planting:<br />
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Everyone's favorite toothless hero. Watch out, he bites. No joke.<br />
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Herbal eye remedy: Santa Lucia's magical flower drop squeezed into an ailing eye cures all aggravations of spirit and eyeball.<br />
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Oh, the handsome harvest of sweet potatoes:<br />
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Muddy feet make happy souls:<br />
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As if we weren't dirty enough, medicinal mud makes our Ladies Spa Day into an exfoliating extravaganza. <br />
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Still planting summer delights in the garden.<br />
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Sombrero Silliness.<br />
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Friends who love mud building:<br />
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The big river on a hot afternoon. The perfect way to end a cow manure-hunting outing.<br />
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News on the duckling: He is waddling and well, eating and growing, and has even started hissing and chasing us down for more food! Thanks to our home-brewed microorganisms, we saved him from imminent duck-doom.<br />
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And life in the jungle just keeps on. The wonder, the blessings, and the joy. Thanks to all who have journeyed to Mama Roja this past year to make this project a fun and successful adventure in sustainable living!<br />
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With a full schedule and a bustling Internship, plus the jungle creeping into summer, things have been really progressing. Not just the bugs, but the garden, the earthen house, and all of our spirits are full with wonder!!<br />
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This little bug just dipped his legs into flower nectar:<br />
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The windows getting set into the adobe walls:<br />
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Let the plastering begin! <br />
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Finger-dappled walls between plaster coats:<br />
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Ah, sweet sister nettle:<br />
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Our hike into the forest to gather nettle for making beer, soups, tinctures, infusions, and everything nettle we could squeeze out of our imaginations:<br />
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Medicinal plant searches along the river:<br />
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Have you ever seen the blood of a nettle plant? It'll certainly make your mouth pucker!<br />
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And back to plastering. Being one with the wall, being one with all: <br />
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First coat of outside plaster complete!<br />
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Everyone's favorite plaster ingredient: cow manure! Great for impermeability, strength, and durability. Plus it's so much fun to sift and stomp!<br />
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Our pig! Here he is checking out his new dance floor:<br />
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Those darn cats... they just can't stop the cute!<br />
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The garden is bursting with life and fruit! We already had to put up our half-shade to protect from the arriving intensity of the summer sun rays. All hands on deck:<br />
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Special thanks to our Kitchen Goddess! Jax, you did a wonderful job, and we look forward to having you back next time around!<br />
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The bottle wall in the second bedroom, complete with final plaster:<br />
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Oooh, and a wee workshop in furniture renovation. Thanks for fancying up Mama Roja, Jeremy!<br />
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Tea-stained wood, sealed with homemade iron acetate. Left to right: black tea, green tea (makes it kinda purple!), and weak black tea. So nice!<br />
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The final touches on the built-in closet!<br />
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Our Giving Thanks day celebration was of course Hip and Exciting, as we donned our natural homemade costumes. Here's a few forest faires floating around:<br />
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Natural clay and starch paint going on the walls. First we made the paint samplers with wheat flour, our red earth, and some chalk powder. Then, we tested them on the walls to see how we liked them in the different rooms and with different light. (I think we like the lighter one best.)<br />
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And so, we leave off here, a final photo of the busy jungle in pre-butterfly state.<br />
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The duckling (yes just
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The mud building
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The bottle wall of many
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The adobe bricks
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The middle wall with
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Nope, it's not earthen human
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Mud meatballs in a
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Transporting buckets of
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Even our smallest
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And voila! The
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Back to the Nature around us... The bananas are in
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Cauli-flower power!</div>
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Dill in flower.
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In the in-between
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Gathering herbs for our bug repellent balm. Calendula, rosemary, camphor, pennyroyal, lemon balm, citronella, eucalyptus, and a few more.<br />
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The kittens are in that
ridiculously cute phase, venturing out of their little love nest,
crawling all over each other, and wibbly-wobbling onto the great big
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Caterpillar season is
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Can anyone identify
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