Veggies Photos

Check out veggies, the house, the produce delivery truck, Limons ingenious water catching system for our shower, and our indigenous table maker!

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BOUNTY!

our first four dollars

what a great day. today kent's cousin tito and the other bombaderos(firemen) came by in their fire truck to buy some bunches of platanos. we made our first four dollars! as they were leaving the produce truck came by, talk about fresh farmer's market and they deliver to boot. these guys drive around with a loudspeaker singing the praises of their produce and calling out what they've got today "carrots, onions, cabbage, tomatoes, mango, mango, mango..." and you just step outside (luckily we're usually hanging out in the yard or on the porch) and they weigh your picks. i got a huge bag for four dollars with potatoes, corn, onions, carrots, cucumbers, garlic and cabbage. then limon asked the guy if he buys plantains and bananas. he walked around the property and chatted it up for a bit and helped limon sack 4 big bunches of platano and banana. then he gave us $10 and said he'd be back in two weeks to buy the ones that are green now. so all in all we made $14 off

our trees today! our first profit- it feels really good. i just picked some of my firey hot chongo chilis and some culantro and basil and not to forget our limones! the tree is falling down with them- i'm off to make soup, and definately do some gardening!

Los Indigenos and La Resistance

Here is the link to a bunch of fotos of the indigenous people and a meeting and protest they had here locally and a rally in Panama city. The goverment here is trying to strong arm them into leaving their land because they are interferring with the hydroelectric project. The gov. is building a damn in their river and using tnt to go through a mountain to create the necessary infrastructure. They are devastating millions of trees and ruining the watershed and many fragile ecosystems. These people have great respect for the land and have not changed their ways in thousands of years. They use no chemicals and are one of the only outlets for us to find organic seeds to buy or barter for. The Panamanian goverment is so corrupt they actually dropped gas canisters from planes on their pueblo to try to gas them out (you can see the pile of the canister remains in a few photos). These people are amazing and strong and stood their ground even when surrounded by a poison gas cloud. They are truly inspiring.

Check them out!

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