Vetiver Grass in Costa Rica – Zacate Violeta
Vetiver Grass, known here as Zacate Violeta “Purple Grass” is one of the world’s most useful and essential plants, and an essential component of sustainable living. Originally from India, it many hundreds of years ago, it spread to other parts of Asia, where it was discovered to be very useful for erosion control. It’s now […]
Turmeric
Turmeric is one of the easiest plants to grow that we have in the farm. These orange roots, which look like ginger, can just be stuck into the ground just about anywhere and they’ll grow. It’s so easy in fact that one of the world’s largest herb companies, Gaia Herbs, has 2 hectares of organic […]
How to Make Soil for Growing Plants – Part 2
Part 2: Making the Dirt Continued from Part 1 – Ingredients The difficult part is finding and getting all the ingredients into one place. Once you have them, you can just mix them all together into a huge pile. The pile should not be more than 1.5 meters deep, so if you’re making a lot […]
How to Make Soil for Growing Plants – Part 1
Part 1: Soil Making Ingredients Many of the “farms” in our part of Costa Rica have had cattle on them for decades, and as a result, the soil is highly degraded. Years of heavy trampling and loosening of the topsoil during rainy season has made most of it wash down into the rivers and out […]
How to prepare a natural insecticide and fungicide
In Rancho Delicioso we are experimenting with several recipes in order to create organic products to treat plagues from various insect pests, or to prevent them. We believe that there are harmless ways to treat these frequent problems of the gardens, rather than using chemicals. We came across to this recipe to create a powerful […]
Rewarding results from the first activity with the children
A few days ago we were talking here about the start of a project with the school of the nearby community of Las Delicias. We are gladly surprised with the results of the first activity that we did with the children of the school. This activity was about the spinach and its properties, and we […]
New project with children of local community
The volunteers have been lucky enough to be involved with the local community school “Escuela Ecologica’ nearby the farm, with its success, will be an ongoing visit every Tuesday ranging from lessons on nutritional benefits of Cashew fruit ( known as Maranon in Costa Rica) to yoga classes. Volunteers will also be preparing healthy treats […]
Google Map of Rancho Delicioso
Here’s an embedded map that shows the location of Rancho Delicioso. You can use this to help navigate here from anywhere else, by zooming out.
How to Find Rancho Delicioso
Driving Directions to Rancho Delicioso Rancho Delicioso is in the middle of the Southern Nicoya Peninsula, so is conveniently located close to all the best beach towns of Montezuma, Santa Teresa, and Malpais. How to get to Rancho Delicioso from Montezuma Driving Time: 10 minutes Go up the hill from Montezuma, on the Delicias road, […]
Rosemary Veggie Farm Rice
Farm-Fresh Rosemary Rice with Farm Veggies and Egg Preparation Time: 15 minutes (excluding time of rice cooking) Serves: 4 This is a very fast, easy, and tasty way to use yesterday’s leftover rice and whatever vegetables you have around. The simple flavor of rosemary and garlic brings out the farm-fresh flavor in the veggies. In […]
