Finca Aguas Buenas

31/12/2020

El vivero en Finca Aguas Buenas: 2016 y 2030.

31/12/2020

Tenemos muchos árboles ahora por 2021.

31/12/2020

Steven Gamboa con árboles de 3 años en Finca Aguas Buenas.

11/01/2020

Finca Aguas Buenas is proud to be partnering with La Asociacion de So Cagru in Boruca, Costa Rica, and Kokopelli Tours in Sierpe, Costa Rica to co-sponsor Trees for Boruca, a program to conduct reforestation on the lands of the indigenous People of Boruca. The program hopes to plant as many as 15,000 trees on private land to assist in job creation, tourism, water quality, and combating climate change. The program is being funded through donations from people just like you. Please go to the project's web page to learn how you can donate and help with reforesting this beautiful land.

www.treesforboruca.com
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Finca Aguas Buenas se enorgullece de asociarse con La Asociación de So Cagru en Boruca, Costa Rica, y Kokopelli Tours en Sierpe, Costa Rica para copatrocinar Trees for Boruca, un programa para llevar a cabo la reforestación en las tierras de los pueblos indígenas de Boruca . El programa espera plantar hasta 15,000 árboles en tierras privadas para ayudar en la creación de empleo, el turismo, la calidad del agua y la lucha contra el cambio climático. El programa se financia mediante donaciones de personas como usted. Vaya a la página web del proyecto para aprender cómo puede donar y ayudar a reforestar esta hermosa tierra.

www.treesforboruca.com

09/10/2019

Looking forward to 2020. We have over 9,000 trees bagged and growing for next year including many species we haven’t grown before. We will have grown more than 215 different species by the end of 2019.
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Mirando hacia 2020. Tenemos más de 9,000 árboles en bolsas y creciendo para el próximo año, incluidas muchas especies que no hemos cultivado antes. Habremos crecido más de 215 especies diferentes para fines de 2019.

09/10/2019

The 2019 planting season has come and gone. It will still rain for two more months but the new trees need time to establish their roots to withstand the coming dry season. This year we planted 12,000 native trees from 122 species. Half of our time was again spent fighting back the invasive African Cow Grass that has been established here for 40 years.
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La temporada de siembra de 2019 llegó y se fue. Seguirá lloviendo durante dos meses más, pero los nuevos árboles necesitan tiempo para establecer sus raíces para resistir la próxima estación seca. Este año plantamos 12,000 árboles nativos de 122 especies. La mitad de nuestro tiempo lo pasamos nuevamente luchando contra la invasiva hierba de vaca africana que se ha establecido aquí durante 40 años.

15/07/2019

30/05/2018

It might be difficult to see but Steven and Juan found this ocelot track on the dirt Juan excavated yesterday for our replanting. I saw an ocelot about 25 meters from this spot just a few months ago.

16/05/2018

Preparing for more planting tomorrow.

04/05/2018

When you work with the little trees everyday, you don't really appreciate just how big they have gotten. These trees range from 6 to 12 months in age and are being planted today.

02/05/2018

First day of the 2018 planting season at Finca Aguas Buenas. The toughest job is definitely lugging the trees from the vivero to the planting site!

19/04/2018

A flowering Roble. One of the older trees in the fallow pasture at Finca Aguas Buenas. We grew over 2,000 of these in the last year.

16/04/2018

Finca Aguas Buenas continues to "grow."

07/04/2018

Steven and I went for a quick seed collecting run before I traveled back to Kentucky. We have roughly 50 kilos of guapinol in the truck bed. The remaining species were mostly the same as the last month but we found three new species of guaba (Inga spp.) in Jalisco, Maiz Abajo and Los Ángeles. The monkeys really love guabas so they are a significant target for us.

29/03/2018

Only another couple of months till planting season.

28/03/2018

Steven Gamboa and I made the long trip to Rio Piro on the Osa Penninsula to visit the fine folks at the Osa Conservation Foundation. They are doing some very interesting work with balsa on reforestation plots. They also have a large vivero and it was fun to compare methods. Despite the long distance, we shared a surprising number of species.

Below is one of their staff, Hillary, who will be implementing a riparian zone restoration project that travels from forest to pasture and into the tidal zone. It looked like an excellent project with enormous potential for success!

12/03/2018

Our "upper" field with our new expansion. We still have a few places to put in some more trees.

10/03/2018

Our latest expansion is complete. We added almost 1,200 new shady spots for our Brosimum utile, Ficus crassivenosa , and Sterculia costaricana.