Cinco Tucanes

01/24/2023

Tito nos explica porque estamos haciendo zanjas de infiltración y llenándolos de madera.

01/21/2023

Visitamos el proyecto de JHC donde las escuelas y miembros de la Co.munidad están creciendo tilapia. Un ingeniero diseño un systema pequeño y a bajo costo que puede ser alcanzable por cualquier familia. Era bien bonito ver que entregados y animados que estaban los tod@s los participantes. Samuel ha estado muy interesado en criar peces entonces vamos a crear planos y hacer nuestra propia versión en la finca!

01/20/2023

Un pequeño experimento en la huerta.

01/05/2023

Mis hijos ayudando a crear nuestra nueva huerta! Que lindos que son.

01/02/2023

01/02/2023

Tito and Sammy threshing beans.

12/30/2022

Cosechando mandarinas.

02/26/2022

Our family is headed back to Nicaragua in August! This means our farm and our FB for Cinco Tucanes is bound to come back to life! Sammy is excited to create a forest ecosystem. We will need to start looking for new crops for the land as climate is making coffee unreliable in our area, as it needs a consistent dry period to rest. Now the rains come intermittently during the dry period, making the coffee plants flower and then die because of the lack of water (similar to fruit trees in the US with blooming in warmth and then being frozen off). After hundreds of years of being a prime Arabica region we will look to fruits, lumber, nut trees, cacao and other friends to bring life to our ecosystem. (don't worry we still have many acres of coffee and continue to sell the coffee that we can provide out of my parents basement, Ten Thousand Villages, and Bowl of Good) An ecological adventure awaits. I am excited to be close to the land again and excited to be working with Mennonite Central Committee in development and emergency relief aid in Nicarauga and Honduras.

12/10/2020

At Spotswood Elementary School, where I work, we are starting a fundraiser to send material aid to Central America. Many of our students have aunts, uncles, brothers, sisters, grandparents, cousins and even parents in Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua. Many of these family members are suffering the loss of everything they had due to the unprecedented disaster caused by Hurricanes Eta and Iota. The situation of their families and friends is at the forefront of our students and families minds and lives.
Some of our Honduran parents came to the school and asked if we could collect materials to help aid in disaster relief. We have created an impromptu disaster relief committee and because of Covid-19 plan to start raising funds virtually for now, as this does not spread disease. These funds will be used to buy all the materials needed for our in person students to put together Disaster Relief Kit in January. As we begin the new year, we also plan to focus our daily class meetings around the theme of "social awareness" which will include many lessons about empathy and the importance of helping others in need. We also hope to create the opportunity for children who read and write in Spanish to pen pal with children in Honduras and Nicaragua who have been affected by this disaster and learn about how this has effected their lives. Please add your grain of sand, click on this link t.ly/BNuL to help our school teach Harrisonburg's children about the power and importance of empathy! As Dr. King stated, “We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”
- SES Empathy Project
Also if you want to see more about what materials we will be collecting click here - t.ly/Vc1E

03/05/2018

Looking for the newest place to get fresh Cinco Tucanes coffee and an amazing meal with fresh ingredients?! Today is the grand opening for Gray Jay Provisions! Check them out and have a cup of coffee while you’re there! Gray Jay Provisions

02/18/2018

Cinco Tucanes coffee harvest 2017 / Cocecha de Café Cinco Tucanes 2017