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Profound Understanding

“And suddenly this strange rhythm came to me, as if whispered by some kind of deity. I kept vocalizing it and repeating it to myself, I didn’t quite understand it. Until I wrote it down and analyzed it. It was a 13/8 measure, very atypical and exotic. The music...

Expedition to Unknown Lands

Parts of the Jungle Hub property are yet to be explored. Especially a geological depression in the southern part of the Old Forest, basically a huge and sudden hole, which is very hard to reach. I managed to take some aerial shots with a drone. If you are the...

The Timber Rescue Operation

We only harvest felled or otherwise already dead trees (for once, it’s illegal to fell trees from a certain diameter in Costa Rica, but mainly we prefer our good trees alive and kickin’, because they tend to get bigger and much more beautiful for us and...

The Duranta Gardens

Below the Rancho is a steep meadow that ends in a mini-forest with some of the most beautiful trees in the regeneration part of the property. I call these trees “the survivors”, since they survived years of chemical warfare by previous owners. The idea is...

Let’s Hang Out

We are building a suspension bridge to connect the forest pathway with the Guanacaste gardens, just because it’s fun! So far the 4 masts have been put in place and we are ready to install the steel cables and wooden bridge floor. [su_carousel...

Sweet Home

In the last 1 1/2 years since we moved to Costa Rica we have been working very hard. But we did it! We have built our dream house in the jungle! [su_row][su_column size=”1/2″ center=”no” class=””][/su_column] [su_column...

Pimp my Rancho

Our first livable space is continuously getting all sorts of add-ons and improvements. Next we will be building more bamboo walls to stop the angry December winds and then we are going to make a beautiful earthen floor! We just finished the kitchen top, check it out...

Enabling life where there was none

Water is life, quite literally! Plant life, insect life, animal life all spring into existence where there was none and then thrive, by simply adding a natural pond. In this short video we show you how we were able to do exactly...

A place to hang your hat

So far we had some of the basics dealt with: we had fresh water on demand and we had a toilet.  I love camping, but when it rained a lot I still had to sleep in the car and now I was really ready for the next step, to build the rancho! A shelter from heat and rain, a...

Closing Cycles

In the previous post we dealt with the most basic of needs both for the site itself and for the people working on it: water. Having water on demand is crucial if you want to spend more than a few hours in the site. Following this logic, the next most important work of...