Photos from the Health Ranger's Garden in Vilcabamba EcuadorThese are actual photos taken in Vilcabamba, Ecuador at Hacienda San Joaquin (www.VilcabambaHomes.com). This gated community is home to many people interested in organic gardening, raw foods, green living and year-round fun!
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Going wild over wild berries
I go wild over wild berries. They're not actually "wild" anymore, of course, since we put this plant in my garden. But these berries are very small, like acai berries, and they're incredible nutrient rich. Shortly after this photo was taken, by the way, my chickens ate all these berries! (I guess my chickens like anti-cancer berries as much as I do...)
Flowering tobacco plants
Yes, you can smoke it if you really want to, but that's not why we grow tobacco. We grow it to use as a pesticide on the garden. These are what tobacco plants look like. They're quite beautiful, actually!
Terraces just like the Incas!
I've seen a lot of cool Inca agriculture here in Ecuador, especially around Quito. Inspired by their ways, we built terraces out of bamboo to reclaim and reforest a landslide behind my house. We're turning it into a garden full of pomegranates, figs and pistachio nuts! (We still need some pistachio seeds, if you don't mind bringing some to Vilcabamba... )
Super tall dinosaur kale!
This is not a Photoshop trick: These kale plants in my garden just keep getting taller and taller. I had no idea they would grow like this! I keep waiting for the seeds, but instead, the plants just keep getting taller. They're turning into KALE BUSHES, and my garden almost looks like a kale orchard! Somebody please come help me juice some of this... I can't drink it all myself!
The ultimate juicing garden
Our garden in Vilcabamba has turned into the ultimate juicing garden with huge quantities of organic parsley, as you can see here. We also have quantities of celery, carrots, beets and kale. It's a juicer's paradise!
Fresh berries in Winter?
Heck yeah! Fresh berries in winter! Why not? We've got four different kinds of berries growing here (five if you count the strawberries), and we're eating fresh berries EVERY DAY off the plants right here at Hacienda San Joaquin. It's berry rewarding!
Double rainbow over Vilcabamba
This picture actually isn't all that rare: Double rainbows appear frequently over Mandango, thanks to the geography and the frequent rainfall over the Podocarpus National Forest. This photo was taken from Hacienda San Joaquin, near the hotel, looking East.
Garden veggie donations
Our produce yields in our garden in Vilcabamba are so high that we end up giving away lots and lots of food. Here, I'm packing up one of eight bags full of zucchini and fresh veggies that we donate to some of the local families who could use a helping hand.
This is a chicken tractor
This is our chicken tractor. We move it from place to place and let the chickens scratch up the grass and dirt, fertilizing and prepping it for planting more amazing fruits and veggies. We had this built buy a local guy here in Vilcabamba. Thanks to the chicken tractor (and some chickens), we get eggs, fertilizer and garden prep work all for free!
Pollinators on the porch!
These little pollinators built a bee house right above my front porch. We love it! Lots of healthy pollinators here in Vilcabamba, Ecuador. The flowers are all buzzing, and there's nowhere else I'd rather bee...
Fresh cactus fruit!
This cactus fruit -- called something like "pitaya" in Espanol -- is a dessert-like delicacy here in Ecuador. They're Mother Nature's version of pudding! I have these plants growing on my property, but this particular fruit was photographed across the river on another farm.
Grow your own castor beans!
Yep, these are the plants that make castor oil, the healing oil made famous by Edgar Cayce. These plants grow like crazy here in Vilcabamba, Ecuador. I have at least a dozen plants in my yard, producing lots of castor beans.
Golden Amaranth in my garden
Check out this awesome golden Amaranth! This is an amazing plant for vegetarians because it's high in Lysine, the essential amino acid typically missing from veggie or vegan diets. I took these pictures today right in my garden. We'll be harvesting the amaranth seeds tomorrow. :-)
Giant moth on my porch!
This isn't a butterfly. It's a giant moth, and we see some beautiful ones here from time to time. This one was hanging out on my porch!
Have you seen my giant squash?
This is one of many giant squashes being produced in my garden right now. They're tender and juicy, too. We got lots of seeds from this one for the next generation. By the way, the bananas in this picture are also from my property here. And yes, bananas grow UP. (These aren't 100% bananas, they're sort of a combo between bananas and plantains. They eat sort of like banana bread... And they have a hard core in the center that you can't eat...)
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