Permaculture in the Colombian tropical dry forest

I’ve been recording in pics my journey living and implementing permaculture in one of the last patches of tropical dry forests in Colombia. I want to start a photo journal to share this magical place and our crazy permie adventures. Hope you enjoy :)

Here is a first batch:

Batch 2 :)

3 :)

Cuatro

Cinco :)

That's a beautiful place, Andrés. Is the forest deciduous like the tropical dry forests in Mexico? Does it get hot in the dry season?

Phil Stevens wrote:That's a beautiful place, Andrés. Is the forest deciduous like the tropical dry forests in Mexico? Does it get hot in the dry season?

Indeed! Everyday I’m in awe with it and all the life it fosters. Here is a short doc of one of our partner reserves:  

Our specific forest usually has four different seasons but even within our country they change a lot from one place to another: a mild dry season, followed by a mild wet season, followed by a harsh dry period that gets abruptly interrupted by very intense storms. We get about a meter and a half of annual rainfall, most of it during the latter. Depending on the duration of the dry season the native trees do loose their leaves but they haven’t this year due to La Niña. And yep! When it’s dry it’s also very hot!! Back in 2016 we broke the record as the hottest place in the country for a few weeks. Some trees require this stress to flower and seed like the gorgeous Chicala (attaching some pics). I could talk for days about this place that I’m totally in love with, its vast diversity and amount of edges, both in space and seasonal, makes it amazing for life just to explode!

Encountered  these guys on a quick stroll :o

More :)

Quick update :)

It is gorgeous! Thank you for sharing your place.

More :)

I read a book about planting trees and the streams began to flow again. I think it was based on events in Columbia perhaps. Sorry, I don’t recall the title right now. Thanks for the inspirational pictures.

Currently cruising your pictures while drinking a cup of this coffee from Antioquia.

I wanna visit!

Beau Davidson wrote:Currently cruising your pictures while drinking a cup of this coffee from Antioquia.

I wanna visit!

our coffee plants have just flowered for the first time! Soonish well have some permie Colombian coffee!!

Also just stumbled with this little guy who was wondering too close to the chicken coop. I’d never seen a little guy so big!

Andrés Bernal wrote:

Beau Davidson wrote:Currently cruising your pictures while drinking a cup of this coffee from Antioquia.

I wanna visit!

our coffee plants have just flowered for the first time! Soonish well have some permie Colombian coffee!!

Also just stumbled with this little guy who was wondering too close to the chicken coop. I’d never seen a little guy so big!

Aaaaaah, I wish I could grow coffee.  I have grown coffee as a houseplant.  

We are starting yaupon holly, which is my region's only native source of caffeine . . .

Mantises are so cool.

Fawn came to say hi