Quinta Locura · Tufares de Puriscal
Farm log.
Field notes from the quinta: planting, construction, birds, roads, and the small discoveries that make this place home.
The latest notes
What we’ve been noticing.
Planting
Turmeric goes in the ground — intercropping with the banana rows
40 rhizomes into the lower terrace, intercropped along the banana rows. Soil prep, spacing notes, and what the first two weeks looked like.
Travel
Manuel Antonio to Puriscal: the two-hour backroad most people never take
Most rental cars and shuttles take the same coastal highway. There's a quieter way through the hills — and it runs right past our gate.
Birds
Is Quinta LoCura a birding lodge? The honest answer
People keep asking if we run birding tours near La Cangreja. We don't. Here's what we actually have, and who it's actually for.
Travel
Is Costa Rica safe? A straight answer from two Ticos who live here
Not a tourism-board yes. A real answer from two Costa Ricans who moved back and live, year-round, in the hills of Puriscal.
Birds
17 new species in April — and why the dry-wet transition is prime time
A wet-season migration pattern we've been noticing for two years now. The tanager flocks arrive before the rains do. Field log with timestamps and a few observations from the creek trail.
Construction
Shou sugi ban on a budget — charring cedar planks for the shala fascia
First real experiment with yakisugi on local cedar. The color is extraordinary — near carbon-black with a grain that opens under the torch. Notes on technique, what we burned, and what not to do the first time.