Haircut and other productive progress

Una vez al año no hace daño

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Its hard not to love dramatic change of the haircut variety, click back a few posts if you want to remember what sort of mountain man I was looking like last week.

@ecoinstante has finished up her coursework for her masters in Ecological Restoration, only the thesis and its presentation remains. This is good news for us, on the horizon is a welcome respite from classwork. Next on deck is my own Masters, but I will be happy to take a year or two off first.

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I have been thinking about a masters in Rural Development, either at the more local University of Tolima, or at my wife's new alma matter La Javeriana for twice the price. With time the decision will be made, I'm really in no rush about it, paper doesn't really motivate me, but instead results.

Either way, soon I will have to reconcile being married to a more educated woman than myself, but I soothe myself to sleep knowing that I helped out where I could and never felt outclassed by anything her professors have come up with.

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Our progress with the mushroom lab continues, we have learned much and continue to iterate and adapt. Our first experiment with Lion's Mane failed from contamination of the substrate, but soon we will try again and again if needed. Slow and steady progress wins the race.

Where we really need to push is on sales. These mushrooms are only available to be sold in Colombia (for now), and none of us are really marketing geniuses.

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But still our new microdose and honey-preserved presentations are pride-inducing; we will keep up the work and everything should fall into place.

Continuous progress is also to be seen in our nursury projects, our top seller is Guamo, the ice cream bean - which was the first species we planted on our farm and which are now providing us with great harvests of seeds for the nursury.

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Last year in the US, ostensibly for @ecoinstante's birthday, we picked up a special tool that has been really helpful in harvesting from these nitrogen-fixing ice cream bean trees.

Sure you can climb up there, but thats a lot more work.

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Of course we always need helpers to clean all that 'ice cream' off the precious seeds. Luckily there is no shortage of people with fond memories of this fruit from their childhood, before the coffee federation pushed for its eradication in support of the 'sun-resistant' varieties of coffee in monoculture.

Only now, 40 years later, is the wider community remembering that under the partial shade of the nitrogen-fixing guamo, they never used to apply nitrogen fertilizers, currently one of the highest input costs for coffee farmers, rivalling even those costs associated with the tedious labor involved in harvesting.

Time heals all wounds, they say. And I suppose this is true even of those wounds caused by ignorance. El Campo is blessed by ever more neo-campesinos, coming back to the land and experimenting and iterating once again positive and productive solutions.

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Congratulations to her. I hope she finishes up the remaining ones in outstanding form.

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Congrats to her it's a great accomplishment. I know she can do it till she finish it. Soon, you will do the masteral, keep it up.

I like mushrooms and having that laboratory for sure you are studying how to grow them more and provide a lot for people.

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Its hard not to love dramatic change of the haircut variety...

Lookin' good! The Cave Man of The Man Cave has been transformed! :)

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Many many congratulations to her. Great progress. I myself am very fond of going to such places with my friends and not looking for things to see, because one's time passes much better by seeing natural things.

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