Granja Agroecológica La Flor de Lis (CRC-48)

Type: Environmental/Green Projects: Ecologically friendly agriculture - Country: Costa Rica

Brief description and main aims

Concerned about the current situation that the world is experiencing in the midst of a health pandemic and economic crisis, the idea arises of creating this farm, where the agricultural, fish, poultry, pig and bovine areas converge, with the aim of harvesting natural products, food, friendly to the environment and accessible, both to our family nucleus, as well as to the general population of “Parrita” area and to provide food for people with disabilities at the Nueva Esperanzas Residence and El Fénix Residence. Also serve as a contribution to sources of employment or other exchange opportunities with nationals and foreigners who like to share their strength, knowledge or contributions that come to strengthen the development of the farm and care for the environment.

Cultural Exposure

The community of “El Tigre” is a small town of approximately 40 families dedicated to agriculture and commerce. It is safe, quiet, the people are very nice and with many years of coexistence. It is located three kilometers from the center of Parrita. 

Main Activities

Main Goals: To be a leader in the production of organic food, oriented towards respect for nature. We contribute to the production of food under conservation and sustainable management, in accordance with nature. Agriculture, Food Security. Private Enterprise, Technology, Trade, Environmental Protection 

Volunteer tasks

Volunteers will be working in: In this are area, pitahaya, plantain, banana, square, ginger, turmeric, cocoa, corn, mango, guava, carambola, sour and sweet lemon, sour and sweet mandarin, sour and sweet orange, chinese and creole suckling fruit, soursop, sugar cane and oil palm grown. In addition, spaces dedicated to the cultivation of grass of at least three varieties. The space dedicated to each product is 200 square meters, calculating an average of 20 plants per variety, except the pitahaya that could cover up to five thousand meters and the oil palm about four thousand five hundred meters.

Agricultural:

Tasks: Preparation of the land, planting, hilling, compost, pruning, weeding, harvest, packing and sale

Warehouse: These are spaces designed for the storage of grains, fertilizer for agriculture and the food of animals. Tasks: Construction, space management, accommodation, inventory: incoming and outgoing products

Compost: Space dedicated to the decomposition of organic waste in which plant and animal waste is transformed into compost. Tasks: Construction, cleaning, product transportation, mixing, packaging and distribution.

Poultry: Area for raising and caring for birds, in addition to commercial exploitation. Chickens, hens, turkeys, ducks, quail can be encountered Tasks: Construction of pens, care, feeding, cleaning, waste collection, egg collection, sale of products and maintenance.

Swine: Space for the production of pigs, where it involves aspects of nutrition, health, reproduction and genetics. Tasks: Construction of corrals, taking care of the animals, cleaning, waste collection, feeding and maintenance

Fish farm: This area is dedicated of breeding fish, which allows to control the reproduction of fish, through artisanal ponds with access to water and with the corresponding technical conditions. Tasks: Pile construction, feeding, taking care of the fish, cleaning, harvesting, packaging, sale and maintenance

Bovine: Space where livestock activity is developed for the production of milk and its derivatives. In addition to the rearing of fattening animals. Tasks: Construction of corrals, pasture sowing, pasture harvesting, feeding, care and sale of by-products.

To promote the farm, the aim is to create a web page that gives visibility to the projects and in this way the population participates and consumes the products that are organically prepared to improve their quality of life.

Volunteer requirements / Skills

Adapting to country side

Basic Level of Spanish and/or English

To be respectful towards the internal rules the project

To be very flexible 

Interest in agriculture

Proactivity

Good attitude.

Open to flexibility of schedules.

Location

El Tigre 

Hosting Situation (Board and Lodging)

Volunteers live with the family in charge of the Finca. The house is 10min form the project. You can go by car (with the coordinators) or on bicycle. 

More Information

The ordinary day is 8 hours and the organization is variable, as it depends on the type of work, it can be 8 hours straight or divided into the morning and afternoon shift