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Field Report #18Clay Plager-Unger
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 The roof of the greenhouse after replacing bamboo slats and cleaning and resecuring the green mesh. |
On Monday, Jaime and I went to the greenhouse to drop off compost, |
 Jaime closes up the back wall of the greenhouse with mesh and bamboo. |
clear weeds and continue the fixing of the greenhouse walls and roof. |
 Front view of the greenhouse after repairs. |
Tuesday we dug 165 holes at the Astillero 'B' revegetation site.
Wednesday we revisited the site planted with the University students and with the help of another group of students from the University watered the transplanted trees. The vast majority are doing surprisingly well. After watering we cleaned up some of the trash and clutter around the greenhouse.
On Thursday we went to the Ramon Beletine site (up the Fanca watershed) and cleared a few more rows for planting.
Friday I spent the day doing house cleaning and Jaime took a long weekend.
Monday the 15th, we began digging holes at El Toro. On Tuesday we finished digging holes. There are now 286 holes for trees at the El Toro site.
On Wednesday we dug 115 holes at the Astillero 'A' site. From there we went to the Jorge Lomas revegetation site and finished the last of the holes there. We will plant 203 trees at the Jorge Lomas site.
 Jaime takes a break while macheteing trails in the hills above the Astillero barrio. |
Thursday we started trails at yet another site in the Astillero neighborhood (Astillero 'C'). |
In the afternoon I took volunteer recruitment flyers to Canoa and distributed them to hostals and friendly people we came across on the beach and around town. On Friday we continued macheteing at the new site.
Monday we finished the trails at Astillero 'C' and on Tuesday we dug the holes (103).
 Turning Neem branches into identification stakes at Ricardo's farm. |
Wednesday I disposed of a truckload worth of garbage and materials from the house, some of which we will recycle at the greenhouse, such as bricks and old boards. Afterwards I met up with Jaime at Ricardo's farm, where we are harvesting Neem branches for identification stakes at the revegetation sites. Since the goal is to plant 3,000 trees this year, we are going to need 3,000 identification stakes. Fortunately there are lots and lots of Neem trees at Ricardo's, all of which are chockfull of branches that can be cut into stakes. |
Thursday I celebrated Christmas by relaxing in the sun on the beach in Bahia.
 Jaime looks for weeds among the Pechiche plants. |
On Friday it was back to work again. |
 A batch of Guachepeli trees. |
We did a light day's work, |
 Guarango. |
clearing weeds and |
 Dormilon. |
straightening up at the greenhouse. |
 Algarrobo trees that desperately need to be transplanted out of the greenhouse |
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 Guayacanes. |
Saturday night there was a rock concert and we were invited by the organizers to set up a display with information about our projects. We hung up the Planet Drum banner and brought a couple dozen trees from the greenhouse and arranged them along the beach wall, next to the stage. A few of the curious concert goers stopped by to find out more. Several interesting conversations resulted, such as an ex-pat who works in the commercial reforestation business (and promotes working with native species) who has contacts with banks that help finance reforestation projects.
Happy holidays,
Clay
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