You would think in the tropics that vegetables would abound. Lots of starchy veggies yes, but lettuce, tomatoes and other broad leaf plants, not so. Yesterday at the super market we saw baby spinach from Salinas for $7.25 a small box. Not on our list! So every week we make the trip up the hill to El Valle to buy organic veggies from Thomas the organic farmer and his family. He has been workireat funng the same farm for 25 years and it is a model of sustainability. And it is great fun looking for and picking the lettuce, onions, carrots, and other stuff and then weighing the harvest and playing with their kids and dogs. The bill is about $15 bucks and it tastes great.
(Still haven't figured how to place the picture next to the text. They always end up at the top. If you know how to put them other places tell me!)
And while we are there sometimes we go next door to a very fancy hotel called los Mandarinos and have a look (or occasionally lunch). When we are at Thomas’ we see the los Mandarinos staff gathering and buying their own food. El Valle is round valley about 2900’ in elevation and a micro climate of cool days and much more rain than San Carlos. Great veggies and flowers. That’s what happens when you live in an extinct volcano not unlike Jurassic Park. As a matter of fact Thomas even has a dinosaur garden complete with plastic beasts in among the leaves.
I'm going to have a salad.
1 comment:
How fun to see how you two are doing! It's so cool that you get to go to a local guy for organic veggies.
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