Erika Hope

Fantastic idea William! We love making bread here on the farm.

Agreed, it's an amazing universal ingredient, it makes a lovely facial scrub as well!

Finca Quijote is a 10 year old homestead/family farm in the wet tropics of Costa Rica. We are now offering internship opportunities to folks who would like to try out work on a homestead before doing it on their own. Learning the ropes you might say.

Our farm is an educational and demonstration farm for permaculture in the wet tropics. Permaculture isn’t just a way of farming or a hobby, on the homestead it’s a lifestyle. Permaculture is a part of our lives right down to how we process our garbage and dry our clothes. In addition to the farm basics such as planning, planting, maintaining, harvesting, animal care and etc., this year we will be doing earthbag and bamboo construction on the farm. It is all hard work, but very rewarding with new skills to be learned along the way.

Learning Opportunities:
Our interns have the opportunity to experience and learn from all aspects of life on our homestead including farm work and the various projects happening this year.
The following is an abbreviated list of the things you can learn.

-Permaculture (Planning, Planting, Maintaining and Harvesting)
-Compost (Manure, Humanure and Plant Materials)
-Animal Care (Cows, Chickens and Tilapia)
-Propagating, Planting and Harvesting Food and Animal Feed
-Cooking (Learn to Prepare Native Roots, Fruits, Veggies and More)
-Rocket Stove Technology (Learn to Design, Build and Use this Technology)
-Hydro-Electric Energy Production (We are about to upgrade our system.)

If you are interested, please check out a full description of the internship, cost and more on our website at http://www.fincaquijote.com/intern.html

Here at Finca Quijote, we are always inventing recipes and trying out new ways to cook with new foods and old favorites. This week Ginnee wrote a blog post on her new secret ingredient in brownies and other baked items that call for coffee in the ingredients. Want to know the secret? Check out the blog post here .... http://www.fincaquijote.com/blog/baking-with-coffee

Internationally Accredited
PERMACULTURE DESIGN CERTIFICATION
Wet Tropics Homesteading -- Building a Life in the Tropics

Finca Quijote, Costa Rica -- June 28 to July 8, 2015

COURSE TAUGHT BY:
Daniel Halsey of the Permaculture Research Institute (PRI) and Southwoods Forest Gardens. Also co-author of "Integrated Forest Gardening", The Complete Guide to Polycultures and Plant Guilds in Permaculture Systems

COURSE LOCATION:
Finca Quijote is a Wet Tropics Permaculture Educational and Demonstration Farm. The family run farm of 517 hectares is deep in the Costa Rican Wet Tropics. Your hosts, Ginnee, Felipe, Erika, and William have ten years of experience on the developing of sustainable systems and healing the lands from decades of neglect. Composting, hydro-electric, bio-digester, plant nurseries, and native forage crop development are just a few of the sustainable systems being used. Visitors, students and researchers are welcomed and treated to a truly beautiful, protected, and wild landscape. All foods for meals are grown locally or on-site. A truly off-grid homestead. PDC and specialty classes are taught by certified instructors from the Permaculture Research Institute and by practicing specialists. Study permaculture and the tropics in the setting of a completed Costa Rica forest homestead. See the permaculture principles in action in this totally off grid farm with hydro-electric system, water cycling, catch, and store and solar hot water facilities.

For more information, send us a purple mooseage or email us at fincaquijote@hotmail.com or visit our website at www.fincaquijote.com

Internationally Accredited Permaculture Designer Certification
PRI Finca Quijote, Costa Rica
Wet Tropics PDC
February 2 - 14, 2015

http://www.pri-fincaquijote.com/courses.html
http://southwoodscenter.com/12-day-costa-rica-pdc.html
http://permacultureglobal.org/posts/5527

Finca Quijote is a Wet Tropics Permaculture Educational and Demonstration Farm. The family run farm of 517 hectares is deep in the Costa Rican Wet Tropics. Your hosts, Ginnee, Felipe, Erika, and William have ten years of experience on the developing of sustainable systems and healing the lands from decades of neglect. Composting, hydro-electric, bio-digester, plant nurseries, and native forage crop development are just a few of the sustainable systems being used. Visitors, students and researchers are welcomed and treated to a truly beautiful, protected, and wild landscape. All foods for meals are grown locally or on-site. A truly off-grid homestead.

PDC and specialty classes are taught by certified instructors from the Permaculture Research Institute and by practicing specialists.Study permaculture and the tropics in the setting of a completed Costa Rica forest homestead. See the permaculture principles in action in this totally off grid farm with hydro-electric system, water cycling, catch, and store and solar hot water facilities.

This is an internationally accredited Permaculture Designer Certification Course.
The course is a minimum of 72 hours of instruction by approved instructors delivering the designer curriculum of Bill Mollison, the founder of Permaculture, and guided by the standards of the Permaculture Research Institute.