The Dirty Squash

23/09/2018

Great article about Permaculture and it's impacts

It’s called permaculture, and advocates say it could feed the world.

06/08/2018

Drying herbs in the sun to make some oil infusions with a group of guests, nothing like growing and making your own medicine!

02/08/2018

I've been spending more time playing in the dirt than on my computer, but I finally wrote a new blog post! If you have feedback I'd love to hear it. http://thedirtysquash.com/el-vivero-the-raised-beds/.

El Vivero – The Raised Beds By KelleyIn The ViveroPosted on August 2, 2018Leave a Comment on El Vivero – The Raised Beds Digging a new water line and installing PVC pipes in the raised beds for the future drip irrigation system before we fill the beds.Directly after the roof was put on the viver...

02/08/2018

The rainy season brings a lushness to the land. The quail grass is loving all of the rain!

25/07/2018

Building the covered nursery (vivero in Spanish). This structure will allow us to grow a variety of plants that cannot survive the torrential rains during the rainy season. Made out of teak logs from the Leaves & Lizards property. Check out www.thedirtysquash.com for a series of blog posts about the vivero.

@ Leaves and Lizards

06/07/2018

New blog post! Read the first article in a series about working on steep slopes and erosion control:

Working on a Steep Slope By KelleyIn UncategorizedPosted on July 6, 2018July 6, 2018Leave a Comment on Working on a Steep Slope Panorama of the slopeDuring the vivero construction I didn’t do much more for that process than to answer questions and provide instructions as to the basics of what I wa...

12/06/2018

New blog post is up! Read about the covered nursery we made for the permaculture project at Leaves & Lizards

El Vivero – The Structure By KelleyIn UncategorizedPosted on June 12, 2018Leave a Comment on El Vivero – The Structure View of part of the finished vivero!The vivero structure has been finished! It was made of teak logs from on site so we only needed to buy cement, plastic roofing, and metal par...

26/05/2018

New blog post today!

El Vivero – The Construction By KelleyIn UncategorizedPosted on May 26, 2018Leave a Comment on El Vivero – The Construction Machete-stripped teak logThe vivero is coming along smoothly and surprisingly quickly for “tico time.” Everything down here is definitely “pura vida mae” as many pe...