Hello

Tomorrow I move to Santa Cruz for the summer to study sustainable agriculture. I don't know where I'm going to live yet but I have a couple couches to stay on while I get everything sorted out. The class should be good. Since this is my first post I should update you on my plans:

I've been living in Ojai, Ca for 6 months working at the Boys and Girls club saving to go back to Costa Rica to start a permaculture farm/hostle. One of the things standing in my way is my complete lack of understaning of how plants work, so I found this class, Agroecology, at UC Santa Cruz to take over the summer. It's supposed to be a good hands on course where we get to do work in the field every day, but also learn scientific explinations of plants. That class goes from June 23rd to August 29th.

After the class I'll return to Ojai for a week or two to reorganize and eat some mexican food, and then it's down to Panama with my dad to get a 4-runner, then I'll be on my own in Costa Rica. I lived in Central America for 8 months last year, 6 in Costa, so I'm pretty familiar with it.

My family already has a farm down there with nothing growing on it, this is the view more or less.. This is actually our neighbors farm, ours has no grass, but you get the picture.

It's very wild, almost pure jungle, some oldgrowth, some secondary. So it should be an adventure, trying to fix the soil up and get a farm going.