More Vetiver Grass at Finca Yantza
Taking advantage of the current rainy season we have been planting some 5000 new vetiver grass seeds. Having already transplanted vetiver grass half a year earlier and seen the positive effect.
Taking advantage of the current rainy season we have been planting some 5000 new vetiver grass seeds. Having already transplanted vetiver grass half a year earlier and seen the positive effect.
Sustainable living is a lifestyle on which we have strong focus at Finca Yantza. An Overview of all on-going sustainable lifestyle elements and implementation. 2017. Summary of the Sustainable Lifestyle, implementations so far: (1) Composting toilet (2) Building with local, natural materials (3) Consuming the less as possible amount of electricity (4) Living fence / cerca viva
Time to get chickens! Now it’s time to buy chickens! The first two, where given for free from neighbors. An other one we bought somewhere. Two others we bought again from someone else and two little ones have been joined a bit later too. Time passed but no eggs. We were now caring well for our new folks but they did not lay eggs! What did we wrong? We asked for advice. We have to give them more free space; they don’t lay eggs when there behind fenced. Well, in Europe or other countries they are also behind fences and do lay eggs – but anyway let’s try it. It might not hurt, we thought. Free range, the wolf wasn’t far.