Cañas Castilla Farm is mountainous with a lot of trees, bushes, and pasture for cattle and horses.
From the top of the hills there is a splendid view of Orosi volcano (Costa Rica) from one side, and of Concepción volcano in Lake Nicaragua from the other side.
Seven hectares of the farm are cultivated with oranges. In addition banana, soursop, avocado, coconut, mango, cashew, papaya, star fruit, tamarind and lemon are cultivated. During the rainy season, cucumbers, corn and squash are also grown.The photograph below shows the growth of small bananas.
The following are wild limes
This is Hercules'Club. Definitely not a tree you would want to be pushed against.
Hercules club is a small to medium-sized tree or shrub in the Citrus family.The bitter aromatic bark is a home remedy for toothache; chewing the bark or the foliage numbs the pain.
Besides the crocodile that I was not able to capture, the farm also has dogs, a raccoon, a dozen chickens, turkeys........
......and your standard wild life that is found all over Costa Rica.
The farm is owned by Guido and Agi, a couple of Swiss expats. They spent their first years in Costa Rica living off the land without running water or electiricy, but today this little paradise has all the ameneties of home and then some.
Following the different signs that are strategicall placed around the farm one can find oneself in front of handcrafted, by Guido and Agi, cabins. These rustic cozy cabins are extremly tidy with high-beam ceilings and patios overlooking the Sapoa River.
The cabin below is the Oropendola Cabaña or in English the Golden Oreole Cabin.
The Swiss expats have turned this farm not only into a gorgeous haven for flora and fuona but also into a B&B/Inn for overnight guests and campers.
Before going on our hiking tour Agi offered us some of the fruits of their land. Of which one was my favorite of all fruits, not found in Illinois; passion fruit. Guido and Agi maintian one hectar plantation of passion fruit.
I could easily move there just for the passion fruit alone.
Incidently, those long yellow fruits you see in the photo below are not your plain bananas, but rather they are apple bananas. Think of strawberry, pineapple, apple flavors and you have now savored the apple banana.
Of course on our way out I had to take some more random photos of the area and the people hanging around.
I conclude this post with a video I found of this beautiful farm.
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I like that you captured the sense of the cycle of the rain forest in many of the photos - that there is constant decay and renewal, not just splendid, vibrant growth. As a living entity, it feeds off of itself. And, in this case, humans just make a very small bump on her backside. Too bad it's not the case writ large in rain forests.
ReplyDeleteAgreed, wish more place were taken care of as this place is....but not all wishes come true 😉
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