Farm in Tonaya, Jalisco
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The House with the Coastecomatl Tree
We own this land for pure coincidence. There was an Hacienda here once. Its name was Santa Gertrudis. Such Hacienda does not exist any more. Now, there is town with only sixteen houses. One of those houses is the House with the Coastecomatl Tree (Crescentia alata), which offers a nice welcome to its visitors.
We are located in romote corner of the Municipality of Tonaya, in the State of Jalisco, México. Santa Gertrudis is at the end of the road from Coatlancillo to San Isidro. Here we enjoy mild weather, with thunderstorms during the summer, and during our brief autumn, rain falls in the form of drizzle. Summertime is when the countryside becomes green. It is the right time for farming activities, to cultivate corn, to plant vegetable gardens and new trees, to go for a swim in the river when water has not risen after rain, and many more things that this time encourages. You see men and women planting “coamiles”, their allotments on the hills. You can see green cultivated corn fields growing everywhere. This gives a lot of hope to farmers. Even before the expected harvest time, we make a fire to grill corn on the cob, enjoying and giving thanks for the received fruits.
Summertime also benefits beef cattle. They start by themselves the seasonal migration to the mountains where they eat nothing but grass. Other times, ranchers riding on horses gather the cattle and take them up the hills to take advantage of the pasture that grows vigorously pointing to the skies after the first summer drizzle. This is also the time when small creeks grow into singing rivers.
With autumn comes harvest time and the never ending work with the animals. Our winter is not too cold. However, due to our proximity to “El Nevado de Colima”, which is the seventh highest mountain in México, we get temperatures around 0° C at dawn. “El Nevado de Colima” is about 50 km away from us. It is the higher and older of two towering volcanoes that comprise the Colima Volcanic Complex. Its neighbor peak to the south, is called “Volcán de Fuego” that is still active today, and is one of the most active volcanoes in Mexico.
Our springtime is peculiar. At this time oak trees will start to lose leaves, but soon they will grow them back. During spring we feel the hot weather, which makes plants grow and produce their fruits. The seasonal cycle starts all over again. Time to get ourselves ready for the upcoming work, to enjoy wild fruits and a colorful season.
There is a broad biodiversity here. It is good to have abundant trees that show a variety of growth forms. Some trees are old, some are young, but all of them are wise and strong, always willing to have contact with people. We also have a great variety of scenery all year long. However, this scenery changes from season to season that you could say each one belongs to a totally different place.
It is very common to ride on horses, mules, and donkeys to go up the mountain when needed. Looking for a mutual benefit, we are starting some honey bee colonies. We also have some cows that we milk by hand. For this reason we get fresh milk, cheese, chass, boiled custard, and sour cream. We also want to learn how to make yogourt and kefir, and any other dairy product. We have turned our back yard into a henhouse. We have a couple of hens it their chikens running everywhere. Even though we are new at horticulture, we are learning to kiss to soil with our hands, and to be thankful for the received fruits.
Transformation is our ideal.
At this time (and for tradition), we raise beef cattle as our main activity. Our family commercializes and sells the products directly to the final consumer, however, we are looking for biological diversification, economic decrease, and cooperative organization.
Therefore, we need to cultive every day our capacity to enter into a sacred relationship with life and its diverse expressions. We need to work with joy in a sustainable way and mantain a harmonious relationships with nature.
We own this land for pure coincidence. There was an Hacienda here once. Its name was Santa Gertrudis. Such Hacienda does not exist any more. Now, there is town with only sixteen houses. One of those houses is the House with the Coastecomatl Tree (Crescentia alata), which offers a nice welcome to its visitors.
We are located in romote corner of the Municipality of Tonaya, in the State of Jalisco, México. Santa Gertrudis is at the end of the road from Coatlancillo to San Isidro. Here we enjoy mild weather, with thunderstorms during the summer, and during our brief autumn, rain falls in the form of drizzle. Summertime is when the countryside becomes green. It is the right time for farming activities, to cultivate corn, to plant vegetable gardens and new trees, to go for a swim in the river when water has not risen after rain, and many more things that this time encourages. You see men and women planting “coamiles”, their allotments on the hills. You can see green cultivated corn fields growing everywhere. This gives a lot of hope to farmers. Even before the expected harvest time, we make a fire to grill corn on the cob, enjoying and giving thanks for the received fruits.
Summertime also benefits beef cattle. They start by themselves the seasonal migration to the mountains where they eat nothing but grass. Other times, ranchers riding on horses gather the cattle and take them up the hills to take advantage of the pasture that grows vigorously pointing to the skies after the first summer drizzle. This is also the time when small creeks grow into singing rivers.
With autumn comes harvest time and the never ending work with the animals. Our winter is not too cold. However, due to our proximity to “El Nevado de Colima”, which is the seventh highest mountain in México, we get temperatures around 0° C at dawn. “El Nevado de Colima” is about 50 km away from us. It is the higher and older of two towering volcanoes that comprise the Colima Volcanic Complex. Its neighbor peak to the south, is called “Volcán de Fuego” that is still active today, and is one of the most active volcanoes in Mexico.
Our springtime is peculiar. At this time oak trees will start to lose leaves, but soon they will grow them back. During spring we feel the hot weather, which makes plants grow and produce their fruits. The seasonal cycle starts all over again. Time to get ourselves ready for the upcoming work, to enjoy wild fruits and a colorful season.
There is a broad biodiversity here. It is good to have abundant trees that show a variety of growth forms. Some trees are old, some are young, but all of them are wise and strong, always willing to have contact with people. We also have a great variety of scenery all year long. However, this scenery changes from season to season that you could say each one belongs to a totally different place.
It is very common to ride on horses, mules, and donkeys to go up the mountain when needed. Looking for a mutual benefit, we are starting some honey bee colonies. We also have some cows that we milk by hand. For this reason we get fresh milk, cheese, chass, boiled custard, and sour cream. We also want to learn how to make yogourt and kefir, and any other dairy product. We have turned our back yard into a henhouse. We have a couple of hens it their chikens running everywhere. Even though we are new at horticulture, we are learning to kiss to soil with our hands, and to be thankful for the received fruits.
Transformation is our ideal.
At this time (and for tradition), we raise beef cattle as our main activity. Our family commercializes and sells the products directly to the final consumer, however, we are looking for biological diversification, economic decrease, and cooperative organization.
Therefore, we need to cultive every day our capacity to enter into a sacred relationship with life and its diverse expressions. We need to work with joy in a sustainable way and mantain a harmonious relationships with nature.
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Comment by Emily Breffle on September 14, 2010 at 11:23pm -
Hola, I am traveling Mexico beginning at the end of October. I will be starting my travels in Mexico City and would love a place to work with you. Will you be needing any help on the farm? Please do contact me if you need an extra hand or two. Gracias y que tengas un buena dia.
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Comment by Kelly DUQUEINE on September 16, 2010 at 10:28pm -
Hola! Como esta usted?
Sorry our spanish is not very good but we will improve quickly, we're sure! We are two french travelers(one girl and one boy), going from Canada to Argentina! We are in San Diego (California) at the moment. We will be in your area around the beginning of October and it will be great to come at your place to help you for a week or two (depending of your needs). We don't have a lot of experience in organic farming but we are hard workers, very energetic and willing to learn. Please let us know if this could work out for you and if it's ok, which date would be better for us to show up.
Best Regards
Kelly and Christophe
tilykou@hotmail.com
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Comment by Noah Scher Purcell on September 26, 2010 at 10:21am -
Hola,
I’d love to help your farm in any way I can. I’ll be in Mexico from November on. I have experience in organic farming with planting, weeding, composting, digging out beds, irrigating and harvesting crops as well as minor construction, bee-keeping and maintenance work. I have also worked in landscaping and road maintenance.
I’m traveling with a Chinese girl who is as excited to learn from the culture of organic farming and Mexico on the whole as I am. This is her page: www.wwoofmexico.org/profile/XiLin?xg_source=profiles_memberList
I think hard work is measured in sweat and a well done job the greatest reward and we would love to share in your experience.
Gracias,
Noah
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Comment by Antoine GILBERT on October 9, 2010 at 11:13am -
Holà!
Soy muy interesado por sus granja. Tenia un huerto en Francia y me gusta trabajar la tierra. Ademas he visto que haceis queso y a veces, hago queso de vacas en mi casa.
He trabajado ya en un proyecto similar en el sur de España, en una comunidad (Sunseed: tecnología del desierto) utilizando principios de la permacultura, tecnología apropiada (bombeo de agua, paneles fotovoltaicos...) y bioconstrucción.
Tengo una diploma y una experiencia profesionale sobre la gestión de agua, entonces podría también trabajar sobre la potabilisación o el tratamiento de las aguas fecal.
Me gustaría mucho de trabajar con vosotros para encontrar personas de diferentes culturas, descubrir tu región, aprender mas sobre la permacultura y la vida sostenible y mejorarme en español.
Sera en Mexico en noviembre por dos meses minimum.
Hasta luego, esperando su repuesta,
Antoine,
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Comment by Laura-Ashley Godbout on October 14, 2010 at 2:58pm -
Hello!
We are two eighteen-year-old girls from Quebec.
We would be interested in working at your farm.
We are available from mid-november to mid-december 2010.
We do not have much experience in farming, but we are hard working and are ready to learn more. We have been picking fruits in British Columbia, Canada, for the last four months, so know the value of living off the land.
We speak English and French and know some basic Spanish.
We are interested in living a new experience and learning more about the Mexican culture.
We hope we will hear from you soon,
Laura-Ashley Godbout
Mathilde Brunelle
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Comment by Justin Andrew Schaude on October 25, 2010 at 6:40pm -
Hola! My girlfriend, Lynne, and I are traveling in Mexico this winter. We will be working on a WWOOF farm in Nayarit for the month of December and would love to work at your farm for about a month in January or February. We both have several years of experience working on vegetable farms, with honeybees, some woodworking and livestock experience and hope to start our own farm one day. My girlfriend speaks some Spanish and I am hoping to learn. It sounds like you have a beautiful farm and we would love to work with you ( and we would like to learn more about milking cows and processing dairy products).
We hope to hear from you soon!
Saludos,
Justin y Lynne
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Comment by Tom Andrés on November 2, 2010 at 11:04pm -
Hello,
My sister and I from France are planning to do our first trip ever to Mexico during the first 2 weeks of January.
We are hard workers, very interested in eating local food, and to take part in all the activities in the farm.
My sister is 32, she’s a comedian and she has already woofed in Britain. I’m a 22 student, I like physical and outdoor activities, and traveling abroad. We both speak English and have notions of Spanish that could improve.
We are interested in joining your farm during our entire stay.
Do you have any need and room for 2 woofers at that time of the year?
Best,
Tom and Charlotte
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Comment by Allison Beaulieu on November 3, 2010 at 7:51pm -
Hi, My name is Allison and I am a 27 year old art teacher that lives in Chicago. I am interested in wwoofing with you for 3 weeks in December. I am a very hard worker and am up for any or all work that you have. If you have openings, please let me know at allison.beaulieu@gmail.com.
Thanks so much!
Allison
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Comment by Alexandra Cicoli Seim on December 3, 2010 at 1:19pm -
Hola, soy una chica de 21 años, fui viajando en Mexico los ultimos 6 meses y en latin america el ultimo año. No tengo experiencia con farming organico, pero soy muy interesada y tengo mucho ganas de aprender como se puede vivir organicamente. Soy sociable y tambien fisicamente fuerte y acostumbrada a trabajar. Quiero mejorar mi español y encontrar nueva gente con los mismos intereses. Seria bien si podria trabajar desde la segunda semana en enero 2011 hasta el fin de febrero.
Saludos y gracias,
Alexandra
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Comment by Alex Dowler on December 16, 2010 at 7:30pm -
Hola,
I am from northern arizona, I have never woofed, but am excited to and am no stranger to work and love to learn.I will be in mexico in january would like to learn more about your operation, I am handy, with construction/labor intensive projects also can cook and can stay for an extended period if needed.
Gracias
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