FEBRUARY HOST ORGANIZATION: LA JOYA DEL SOL
Costa Rica is famous for a lot of things: great coffee, killer surfing, kooky animal species and their cutting edge approach to environmental policies and ecotourism.
An exchange-based form of ecotourism has lured me into Costa Rica. Back in October, as I researched for somewhere in Central America to visit for the month of February, I discovered a farm on WWOOF that peaked my curiosity. Today, I’ve arrived to this farm: La Joya del Sol. In the southern hills close to San Isidro, I’l be spending a month learn about farming. But not just any kind of farming, I’ve partnered up with Erik Rivkin, one of the worlds formost raw vegan “cooks” to learn about the practice of eating with the earth and living off the grid. The farm is 180 acres of rainforest, buena vistas, fresh air and clean spring water, and generates electricity naturally from a river on the land.
Over the next month, I’ll be sharing photos and stories (and hopefully video – slow internet connection) from this unique place on earth.
What are my expectations of this experience?
-To learn more about “life off the grid”
-To eat some delicious food
-To see some crazy biological diversity
-To have time for reading and writing
-To be hungry a lot of the time and to forget about solid bowel movements
Truth be told, despite the exciting setting, I’m nervous. I’m definitely going to be experiencing a dietary cleanse over the next four weeks. But I’m also going to be fairly isolated from other individuals. At the moment we are only three people on the “rancho,” which is a stark difference from the house full of characters during my previous stellar month in New Orleans.
I definitely feel like I’ve left the familiarity of North America.
Visit the La Joya del Sol website.
Daniel,
your last partners in New orleans miss you !
Have a great trip in this farm which seems amazing !
Thanks M. Boris.
I think you’d love the farm. It’s completely self-powered a turbine in the creek.
But you’d also be very hungry. No Peebeejeebees here
Miss you.
Words can’t express how much I admire/envy/support what you’re doing.
How will you feel at the end of this month? And the end of Month Three? And the end of Month Twelve?
I know you wrote a post telling us how to be Daniel Baylis, but it’s not quite explicit enough. Right now, I really DO want to be you.
Enjoy enjoy enjoy!!
P.S. Are you managing to listen to Dolly Parton while you’re abroad?
I’m always listening to Dolly
Also loving this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAjiS578Cuc
Want to see pictures of your breakfast, lunch and dinner, please!
La vida te da sorpesas, sorpresas te da la vida!
Life gives you surprizes, surprizes give you life!
(Celia Cruz song)
Diay?- is a word which is instant absolution: just say, ” Diay ?” That means, “Well, what can you expect?” or “What can be done about it?”
it’s going to be amazing…and you never know, you might just feel the best you’ve EVER felt eating that way! (notice the “that” as I distance myself from the clean- ness of it all!
pura vida!
Lots of rainbow, sunset, sunrise pics and many vegan recipes……..PLEASE!?!?!?!
You are in a fabulous place and are going to learn a lot!
You leave a print of shine where every you go dearest D
Bonjour Daniel!
Ronald here from Toronto! The farm in Costa Rica looks amazing! what a switch indeed with New Orleans! The pictures are beautiful. The pic with the meal – all natural I am sure! looks very apetizing – a wonderful plate presentation. However because of bad previous experiences in the tropics, I always tend to avoid eating fresh vegetables that doesn’t need peeling! You guys probably take special care in preparing them! Enjoy your stay in a beautiful part of the world! hugs