It’s been awhile since we updated building progress on Finca Lilo in beauty Biolley! The place is really taking shape! The green season is approaching just in time to wrap up the building and fine details. Now we’re busy making furniture, making and buying accessories, finishing up the pool and implementing the gardens. Take a [...]
Summer has officially ended here in Biolley. Summer is considered the dry season. Now the green season begins! Here’s a few photos from the summer season: View from backside of the house. Rainbow over the Talamanca Mt. Range. View from the cabins. The goat parade around the cabins takes place in the morning and in [...]
Summer arrived pretty early this year! We were surprised when it just suddenly stopped raining. Yay! I’m game for the dry season! Don’t get me wrong, the green, rainy season is beautiful too . However, I welcome summer for more bird watching, hikes in the park, swimming in the river and spectacular summer sunsets! The [...]
It’s the green season on the farm! That means some heavy rainfall, but there’s plenty of sunshine too! Take a look at the green season on the Finca Lilo (our farm) in Biolley, Costa Rica. It’s a beautiful time of the year. It is harvest season in the coffee fields. The coffee plantation on the [...]
Our favorite animal on the farm is our dog. Summer is his favorite season! Hunter lives for his walks on the farm! Pura Vida Hunter! Start Slide Show with PicLens Lite
June, 2010 Last year, the students had no computers, no overhead projector and no textbooks. With donations from generous folks and the Finca Lilo de Biolley, we’ve equipped the school with 10 computers and an overhead projector to show textbook lessons on the projector. May, 2011 A new update approximately a year later. The [...]
Ti’s the winter season in the northern hemesphere and the “dry” season here in Costa Rica. Ricardo and Rigo finished the harvest of 2010, dried the coffee and sent it off to the U.S.A. for their first year of export. The drying beds are used to dry the coffee on the finca. Ricardo and Rigo [...]
The dry season has officially started. We had the “chapeo” done ( major grooming of the pasture grasses with machetes) by don Domingo and his crew. It took them 25 days to do the chapeo. About 50 + acres. I was gone when that was going on and when I returned, at first I thought [...]
The wet season was super wet this year! Low coffee crop yields abound. The coffee on our farm turned out great once again! We’re getting rave reviews, regarding the same and getting ready to sell our first crop in the U.S.A.! This is first year growth in this part of the plantation. These first year [...]
On our fourth visit to the little Biolley school and with some great supporters behind us, we are pleased to post some great progress! Our goal to attain 10 used laptops is in reach! We distributed five laptops (thanks to some great donors) the last time around and they are now implemented in the two [...]
Biolley, Costa Rica gets at least 160 inches of rainfall each year. Sometimes more. This year was a wetter season than most. Winter in Costa Rica is called the “wet season”. Our farm, “Finca Lilo de Biolley” better known as “Finca Lilo” got drenched this year. However, Biolley sits nestled in the Talamanca mountain range [...]
The last visit to the farm was pretty much filled with going over the construction plans, making final changes and cutting the pads for the main house and bed & breakfast cabins. Link to our post: Building in Biolley . We did manage however to spend a few mornings getting around the farm to see [...]
Many of our readers know that we bought the farm in June of 2008. We have not moved onto the farm as of yet, but we are now spending more and more time on the farm and are beginning construction on our main house and two cabins for our small bed and breakfast. Our contractor [...]
This is the last part in the 3 part blog post of “Leaving the USA for Biolley.” and it involves plan A and B. The first post describes how we came upon our property and why we made the move to a remote area in Costa Rica. The second post describes the matters at hand [...]
This is a quick post to remember our beloved park next to our farm. We hope to do our part by growing organic coffee, helping farmers around us to grow organic coffee and always producing enough coffee for the indigenous Gyuami Indians to come to our farms to help with the harvest! Ultimately, all these [...]
Now what? After going through the legalities of owning the farm, (we named the farm ” Finca Lilo de Biolley”) we had to figure out how we were going to maintain it from a far with trustworthy caretakers. Since we are the only gringos in the area, we had to trust the recommendations of some [...]
We’re on our way! We’ve developed our farm now for over 2 years. We are getting ready to build our home & a couple of cabins for guests, (bed & breakfast) friends, volunteers & family. We are on the farm full time in Nov. 2011. Here’s how it all began: After reviewing and studying the [...]
We had the inspector on the farm to start the USDA-NOP organic inspection for the coffee! Go Ricardo & Rigo! We hope you enjoy the video of our very lovely coffee plantation! Harvest is coming around once again and we are further along in the certification process! Ricardo has made the drying beds in preparation [...]
Our farm animals all have a job on the farm on the Finca Lilo de Biolley. The sheep eat the grass on the road and in between the coffee rows. We have a black sheep too. She seems to be the wayward one who wanders from the group. The sheep are great at replacing machinery [...]
We brought 5 laptops for the kids!!! We are planning on bringing down 5 more in November. They desperately need materials! They have no textbooks. No textbooks…….. can you believe that? The kids copy from one computer and then one student reads the text and dictates to the class to copy. So we are going [...]
As we all know, the water supply in the United States is quite a concern. Many main water supply sources are polluted with dangerous contaminants or chemicals. An important concern and a must have when finding our retirement destination was the water supply. Here in the Talamanca Mountain range there is plenty of the purest [...]
This little film clip was taken while sitting as a passenger in our Jeep Cherokee. I just finished reviewing a property in San Vito to add to our listings for the cowboy who has his finca (coffee farm) in San Vito. We are saying good bye to him and on our way back to the [...]
Biolley School – Biolley, Costa Rica from biolleybuzz on Vimeo. We hope you like the tour around the school campus of the Elementary school in Biolley on the short flim clip of the Biolley School posted on Vimeo at: http://vimeo.com/biolleybuzz and on our Facebook group “Biolley farms and La Amistad International Park”. On our next trip [...]
This post is dedicated to all the green around the area. This is during the dry season but there is plenty of green around our place! It is a typical tropic scene where there is a dry season but it comes with rain. Rain is mixed with plenty of sunshine year round. Pretty much all [...]
Costa Rica is appropriately named. The country boasts of two coasts. The Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean. We discussed some of the Caribbean in a previous post. This post features the central and southern coast line of Costa Rica. We think it is some of the most beautiful coastline on the Pacific side. The [...]
I’ve been watching videos on coffee roasting to provide more information to our readers and future BiolleyBuzz coffee bean consumers! We are going to sell our beans direct from the poor farmer to you. No middlemen, no green bean distributors, no “charitable” foundations who sell coffee. “Fair trade” and “charitable” organizations have too many hands [...]
Biolley is an area that is wetter than most areas in Costa Rica. There is more rainfall on average here than in other part of the country. Even though the dry season is coming around, there will be a few torrential downpours in Biolley before the actual dry season makes its way here. Biolley has a [...]
There are waterfalls and rivers to swim in all over Costa Rica. It’s great here in Costa Rica because the variety in the country is so accessible being that you are not that far way from the mountains or the beach wherever you go inside Costa Rica. Both the beach and mountains are very different [...]
This is our first post on this new blog-site, Biolley Buzz. Doesn’t it seem roomier, greener and closer to our future destination? The new blog-site will build up quickly. More information with page updates, new blog entries and adding the rest of the past posts will be updated soon. Thanks for your patience! In the [...]
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