Costa Rica
Horticulture 372 : Organic Agriculture and Sustainable Farming Professor: Jim Nienhuis Semester: Spring 2013
Fearless Faculty Leader (Jim)
Host Families
Food!!!!!!
More Food!!!
Eating Out
Picking Fruit
Jim’s Mangos
Sardinal, Costa Rica
Billiard Hall
Local Ice Cream Shop!
Local Beaches
Some of our adventures focused on the culture of Costa Rica
Chiverre Festival Iguanas Cloud Forest Hot Springs Snorkeling National Wild Life Preserve Zip Line
Chiverre Festival Chiverre a squash (Cucurbita ficifolia); at Easter time it is traditional to make empanadas stuffed with sugared chiverre filling.
And more Iguanas
Cloud Forest
Defensive Strategies Nitrogen
Snorkeling
Volcanic Hot Springs
A quick stop in town
National Nature Preserve
Sloth
Birds and Iguanas
Bats and Iguanas
Crocodiles
Zip line
Some of our adventures focused on Organic and Sustainable Agriculture
Pepper and Tomato Farms Local Vegetable Farms Organic Coffee Production Evil Pineapple Fields
Local Pepper and Tomato Farm
Fearless Faculty Leader
NonSustainable Pineapple Production
Small Scale Sustainable Farming
+
= Sustainable Use of Land
Seedlings in the Greenhouse
Organic Small Farm Shade Grown Coffee
The best coffee is grown at higher altitudes
Which means hiking up a hill
Organic Matter for Nitrogen (AKA Chicken Poop)
Processing the beans
Green (nonroasted) Coffee
The final roasted product
Join us next year!!!