Turmeric goes in the ground
40 rhizomes into the lower terrace, intercropped along the banana rows. Soil prep, spacing notes, and what the first two weeks looked like.
After a decade abroad, we're back home — building a small farm, a simple cabin, and a place to slow down in the hills of Puriscal.
Quinta LoCura. In Spanish, locura means madness — roughly what our families called it when we left stable careers abroad to come home and learn to farm. Split it differently and lo cura means "it heals you." Both are true. That's the whole idea.
One cabin. That's it — you'll be our only guests. A custom king bed, a private bathroom, warm wood floors, and two enormous windows framing the green ridges of La Cangreja National Park. It opens straight onto the shala, an open-air space with a soaring roof where mornings mean coffee, birdsong, and absolutely no agenda.
See the Cabin1.7 hectares of fruit trees, young gardens, and a lot of learning in public. Avocado, starfruit, bananas, citrus, guavas — some of it ends up on your plate. Toucans, tanagers, and yigüirros show up daily and don't charge anything.
Our StoryReal Costa Rican home cooking — local ingredients, some grown a few steps from your table, made the way it's made in houses, not hotels. Meals are optional and arranged when you book. It's the thing we're most excited to share.
Stays & FoodA 30-minute drive from the entrance of La Cangreja — the least-visited national park in Costa Rica, which we consider a feature. Exactly two hours from Manuel Antonio along one of the most beautiful backroads in the country.
You'll want a 4x4, or we'll come get you.
40 rhizomes into the lower terrace, intercropped along the banana rows. Soil prep, spacing notes, and what the first two weeks looked like.
Traditional Japanese wood preservation using a blowtorch and coconut husk ash. Notes on technique, what we burned, and what not to do the first time.
A wet-season migration pattern we noticed: the tanager flocks arrive before the rains do. A field log with timestamps and coordinates from our creek path.
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