Added on December 26, 2017  Geoff McCabe

Meet the Community

People often ask us who lives here, so here’s some info to answer that question.

Many people who have traveled around Costa Rica visiting various eco-villages have noted that Rancho Delicioso is different in that we have a lot of people who actually live here, or plan to be here at least half the time. Many of the other projects end up with a lot of people who set up vacation-rental type situations, which doesn’t make for a strong community short-term. We also have a wide variety of ages, with everyone from young children to people who have retired down here.

Too see where these are located, look here on this map: https://www.ranchodelicioso.com/map-farm/

Lot 1: This is owned by an amazing man named Joe Pacal, who will bring a youth volunteer program from a Navajo reservation in Arizona to experience another culture, the tropics, permaculture, and some of the world’s most beautiful beaches. Joe previously lived in Hawaii. Now he’s of retirement age but is going strong and very active in permaculture and volunteering.

Lot 2: Pippa

Lot’s 3-9, 17, 18, 24, 25, 28, 40 and 59: green zone, community orchards and projects.

Lots 11 & 12: Meet the Jordans! Inspired by examples they saw in L.A., Ken and JIVANA own The Green Wave House, an eco-show home. They are open to public showings by RSVP or by invitation, with occasional events.

Ken is a former and accoladed recording engineer and electronic music artist (one half of the band, The Crystal Method).  His accolades most notoriously include two Grammy nominations for best album and a platinum record.  Outside of the dance music industry, many people know of his band for the theme song to the TV show “Bones”.  Ken is now known for many other things in the community.  He is the host of our weekly “movie night”.  Rancho Delicioso residents are invited to their home on Tuesdays at 6:30pm.  He has become our water leader on the East side of the farm.  He is our teacher of “Kensanity,” a HIIT workout he offers for free 3x/week on the main Rancho Delicioso yoga deck.  He is now a multi-medaled triathlete, 2x reigning champion of Puntarenas, and will be representing Costa Rica at the World Triathlon Championship Finals in Spain (October of 2024).

JIVANA is a writer, mermaid, and acts like our village priestess.  She has occasional spiritual offerings, including yoga and tantra workshops, and is available for various spiritual services related to Life and Death.  She and Ken are known for the new annual traditions they have established.  Momento Oro celebrates a blooming tree. Frody Fest is a 3-day intimate and playful gathering with their late cat as a mascot. It also serves as a Death-doula event in disguise.  She runs the nonprofit Green Wave, which supports local projects such as the school, Futuro Verde, and Wild Sun Rescue Center (the only wildlife rescue and rehabilitation facility within a 300km radius of our area).  You have Wild Sun to thank if you see (or probably hear) the iconic scarlet macaws in the Rancho Delicioso trees.  This is the direct work of their scarlet macaw reintroduction program.  Other campaigns run under Green Wave are Permaculture Pinup, Permaculture Party Club, and Mermaids for Modoc.

You can catch Ken and JIVANA on most Fridays on Facebook as they broadcast live (recordings available afterward on the Green Wave FB page),  which they call “Farm Talk Friday.”  For more information or to contact them, please visit www.greenwave.eco

 

Lot 16: For sale

Lot 19: Heejin is a Korean American architect who currently lives in New Jersey. She’s has designed a “tiny house” to build here, and has chosen to go 100% solar for the power. She plans to build in 2019.

Lot 20: Scott and Kim have been teaching at Anamaya every year nearly since we opened. Kim teaches yoga and Scott is a high-level success coach. They have an amazing program called Go Love Now, which empowers youth to be kind and compassionate.

 

Lot 21: Josephine is originally from France, but lived most of her adult life in the Netherlands. She’s a yoga teacher, a vegan chef, and has a wide array of other skills. She was Rancho Delicioso’s permaculture and yoga retreat program leader for over a year, and did her first YTT at Anamaya. A very hard worker and dedicated to permaculture and spirituality.

Lot 22: Swett family: Bryan is from Costa Rica and Phoebe from Whidbey Island, Washington. They have two kids, Ian and Joaquín. They built their house and moved full time onto the property in 2020. Bryan is part of the Rancho Delicioso surf club. He’s also a master breadmaker and is famous for his amazing sourdough, which he delivers fresh to neighbors.

 

Lot 23: Patricia and Martin are from Seattle, where they have a house in Ballard. Patricia is a well-known glass blowing teacher and plans to have a small glass studio here soon. Martin is a builder and a vegetarian chef, and they plan to build in 2018 and live here at the farm from 6-8 months of the year when the weather is the worst in Seattle.

 

Lot 26: Kevin and Francesca are old friends who decided to purchase a lot together. Francesca is an Italian chef and dreams of having her own restaurant in Costa Rica someday.

Lot 27: Manuel and Rebecca currently live in London. Rebecca is a professional chef, and Manuel is an adventure tour guide. They are building a Gap Year travel website: https://www.gapadviceportal.com Their current plan was to move to live in Costa Rica full time starting in 2019, but it looks like they may be delayed by a year or two.

Lot 31: Sarah McCabe

Lot 33:  Geoff McCabe – originally from Seattle but has lived in Costa Rica since 2004. He is the co-founder of Rancho Delicioso with Yasmin Tobon. Geoff also is part owner of nearby Anamaya Yoga/Wellness Resort (with Joseph and Kelsey). He is especially passionate about cryptocurrencies and permaculture. Here is the new house he just finished in Oct 2021.

 

Lot 35 and 36: Robbie, Cassandra and their two young children live here full time, having moved from Southern California in early 2020. Robbie is a professional artist, musician and surfer, and Cassandra is an artist, nature lover and former producer in the fashion industry. They experimentally designed and built their house and studio mostly out of local Melina hardwood, and now have 50+ edible plants on their property.

Lot 37 and 70: Yasmin and Anika. Yasmin is from Colombia and is a journalist and artist, in Costa Rica for more than 20 years. Anika is 5 years old.

Lot 30 and 38: Awaken Retreat Center for hosting retreats of all kinds. Here you’ll find the River Palace and our greenhouses. More info soon…

Staff House:

 

Lot 39: Joseph’s land is home to many fruit trees and tree structures.  You can read more about the Sacred Geome-Tree House.  He now has a 4 story flying bamboo house in the living bamboo that he planted in 2013.  He’s passionate about eco building, natural health and consciousness evolution and plans to teach more in those areas.

This is an early construction photo of the bamboo house to give you an idea of the structure.  Now it’s so grown in that you can’t even really see that there’s a house there from the ground.

 

Lot 40: This one is currently slated to be a community lot where we’ll build a pool, BBQ, and deck for the community to use for potlucks and gatherings. Many lot owners plan to build a cabin for rent, so their guests can meet each other and share this area.

Lot 41: Jim and Catherine retired after working with children and families for 30+ years and moved to Delicias in 2018. Their house, which is constructed if bamboo and cob, includes a greywater system, compost toilets and a rooftop rainwater catchment system. Prior to moving here, they studied and practiced permaculture while living in Washington State. Since moving to Costa Rica, they have been studying soil regeneration and are developing ways to use this knowledge and speed up the succession process to restore the natural habitat around their home.

 

Lot 42: Resham is in the process of buying this lot to build a rental cabin and a house. She’s from New York but currently lives in Florida, where she’s the director of sustainability at Valencia College.

Lot 44: Resham

Lot 47 – Permatek: Geoff and Shane are using recycled containers to build a tech center. Here we’ll have high-speed internet, a VR room, and a place for “digital nomads” to stay and work, while also enjoying the area’s surf, yoga, and healthy food and environment. Part of the idea here is to have a place to help get our work lives separated from our home lives, to help achieve a better balance and focus.

 

Lot 48 and 55: Shane Duncan is from Colorado and plans to build one or two small solar-powered houses in which to live in part-time. He originally came to Rancho Delicioso as part of one of our “Awaken” retreats and is now becoming a resident.

Lot 49: Wonderland: Yasmin has built her restaurant, gift shop, children’s playground, and event space that will become a focus of activity for people living here and great people from the neighborhood and around the southern Nicoya Peninsula.

 

Lot 50: Joshua, Tiffany, and their 5-year-old daughter are purchasing this lot and plan to build and live here with us full time.

Lot 52:  Carrie

Lot 57:  Matt, Susan and Kaelianna.  Matt is a former attorney and judge, an aquaponics farmer and would be avid Gardner. He currently works with his wife Susan writing and presenting continuing education courses for licensed healthcare providers. In addition to offering continuing education, Susan is a licensed psychotherapist, mental health agency director, and long-time environmental activist and eco-warrior. Matt and Susan left their electric cars and eco-home in Florida in order to escape out-of-control over-development and environmental destruction, and to connect with a community of creative and like-minded people. They brought their youngest of 3 children, Kaelianna, who will soon be graduating from the local IB school Futuro Verde. Having found their “tribe,” they are in the process of designing a new eco-home here at Rancho, which may include a zero carbon aquaponics system as well. Join them Sunday morning at the Montezuma Runners Group.

Lot 58: Tammy, Matt and Susan

Lots 60-62: for sale

Lots 63-68: for sale