Postcard from the Farm

Compost Cakes

Farmer Leonzo making his famous “Kaka Cakes” (manure cakes).

Maturing like a fine wine
Cakes, once matured, are turned and left to age like a fine wine 🙂

Soil
And back to soil it magically returns.

Kale starts ready for transplant
This super-charged soil goes into our starting boxes. How happy is this kale?

Jairo setting out lettuce starts
Farmer Jairo setting lechugas (lettuces) from a start box.

Soil closeup
A close-up of our beautiful soil. The stuff of a farmers wildest dreams 🙂

Glorious results
Glorious results! A canasta (traditional harvesting basket) full with basil heading straight for the Harmony Juice Bar. The Avocado Pineapple basil smoothy is my favorite, btw.

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