In Fall 2022, we explored the conservation efforts of rural communities working through permaculture and biodiverse farming to promote domestic and international fair trade
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Pineapple Plant - Guanacaste, Cacao Fruit - Upala, Carne De oola - Upala, Cacao Fruit - Upala
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Pineapple Field, Alejuala
To some degree, we’ve made it our sole job to always stay curious. Delays on the Ruta Nacional Primaria 32 to Limón would teach us about the growing infrastructure of Costa Rica’s road ways. Conversations and research into officials and government supported organizations such as the Asociación Nacional de Agricultura Orgánica would teach us about the conservatorship of certain plants, trees and entire areas across the country. Blogs such as Visit Costa Rica would help identity points of interest that would be high in tourism and local references. Costa Rica is beautiful and everyone who lives there knows it. There was an inspiring collection of biodynamic farms, permaculture in practice, forgotten and underutilized foods used in local communities in an almost entirely different national cuisine. Our aim was to help inspire a social and economic opportunity with the people of Costa Rica. We wanted to grapple with the issues of these rural communities and local farms and help conceive ideas, informed and inspired by the local peoples to imagine solutions to agriculture and trade that were aligned with their social values, their daily routines and their local capabilities.
Above:
Wild Horse, Alejuala
Above:
Cloud Forest, Alejuala
After weeks of conversations, and years of research and advisorship, we hoped to capture in this case study the unfaltering health and wellness culture that has been further primed in recent years of growing tourism and expat communities through the country. We threw ourselves into various local lives and routines, we were inspired by the diversity of Latin American people who called Costa Rica home, as well as grappled with the natural difficulties that diverse and displaced communities face. We found opportunity in perhaps Costa Rica’s most abundant and transformative resource which was fruit. Fruit in every direction, in every place for miles and miles to be seen. We tracked waste, collected testimonies from local farmers and educated ourselves around local species of foods that indigenous communities still use and hope that through further development and work with the locals of the country, we can play a pivotal role in transforming the opportunities in the current foundations and integrity of Costa Rican agriculture. To create a sustainable and ethical product, that can help support the upward economic mobility of the Costa Rican people, while setting the standard for equality and conservatorship of generational farmers and the inestimable nature of what they have to offer the world.
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After weeks of conversations, and years of research and advisorship, we hoped to capture in this case study the unfaltering health and wellness culture that has been further primed in recent years of growing tourism and expat communities through the country. We threw ourselves into various local lives and routines, we were inspired by the diversity of Latin American people who called Costa Rica home, as well as grappled with the natural difficulties that diverse and displaced communities face. We found opportunity in perhaps Costa Rica’s most abundant and transformative resource which was fruit. Fruit in every direction, in every place for miles and miles to be seen. We tracked waste, collected testimonies from local farmers and educated ourselves around local species of foods that indigenous communities still use and hope that through further development and work with the locals of the country, we can play a pivotal role in transforming the opportunities in the current foundations and integrity of Costa Rican agriculture. To create a sustainable and ethical product, that can help support the upward economic mobility of the Costa Rican people, while setting the standard for equality and conservatorship of generational farmers and the inestimable nature of what they have to offer the world.
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