Turmeric
Turmeric is one of the easiest plants to grow that we have in the farm. These orange roots, which look like ginger, can just be stuck into the ground just about anywhere and they’ll grow. It’s so easy in fact that one of the world’s largest herb companies, Gaia Herbs, has 2 hectares of organic […]
How to Make Soil for Growing Plants – Part 2
Part 2: Making the Dirt Continued from Part 1 – Ingredients The difficult part is finding and getting all the ingredients into one place. Once you have them, you can just mix them all together into a huge pile. The pile should not be more than 1.5 meters deep, so if you’re making a lot […]
How to Make Soil for Growing Plants – Part 1
Part 1: Soil Making Ingredients Many of the “farms” in our part of Costa Rica have had cattle on them for decades, and as a result, the soil is highly degraded. Years of heavy trampling and loosening of the topsoil during rainy season has made most of it wash down into the rivers and out […]
Google Map of Rancho Delicioso
Here’s an embedded map that shows the location of Rancho Delicioso. You can use this to help navigate here from anywhere else, by zooming out.
How to Find Rancho Delicioso
Driving Directions to Rancho Delicioso Rancho Delicioso is in the middle of the Southern Nicoya Peninsula, so is conveniently located close to all the best beach towns of Montezuma, Santa Teresa, and Malpais. How to get to Rancho Delicioso from Montezuma Driving Time: 10 minutes Go up the hill from Montezuma, on the Delicias road, […]
Rosemary Veggie Farm Rice
Farm-Fresh Rosemary Rice with Farm Veggies and Egg Preparation Time: 15 minutes (excluding time of rice cooking) Serves: 4 This is a very fast, easy, and tasty way to use yesterday’s leftover rice and whatever vegetables you have around. The simple flavor of rosemary and garlic brings out the farm-fresh flavor in the veggies. In […]
Cilantro Purslane Pesto
Cilantro/Purslane Pesto to try Ingredients 1 cup cilantro 1 cup purslane leaves and small stems 1/2 cup olive oil 1/4 cup cashew nuts 1/4 cup sunflower seeds 5 cloves garlic, minced 1 tablespoon vinegar 1 teaspoon lemon juice 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper or minced spicy peppers salt and pepper to taste Try adding the olive […]
Purslane Basil Pesto
Our Purslane Basil Pesto Recipe This is a wonderful, super-healthy raw vegan pesto that’s very inexpensive because it’s primary ingredient is purslane, which is perhaps the easiest food to grow on the farm. It’s so easy in fact that we never plant it or take care of it. It grows all over by itself since […]
What’s Growing at Rancho Delicioso
Gallery of Edible Plants That Will Grow in Costa Rica Finally I’ve been able to find the right way to display most of what we’re growing here at Rancho Delicioso. I was guessing that it must be up to 100 different edible plants, but it’s far more than that. As of this writing, many of […]
Lacewing Insect – A Friend to the Tropical Gardener
An Insect Predator of Aphids and Caterpillars If you’ve lived in Costa Rica for a while, and you’re paying attention to the little things around you, then you may have noticed some tiny eggs on little hairs around your house or garden. I had seen them a few times and wondered what they were, but […]
