Picture of middle of orchard looking up to the bodega
It's time to harvest
Tuna cactus showing developing fruits, with the mountain, Mandango in the background
Old and new
Only in October
2 crops per year
Just budding
Part of live fence called piñarejo
Orchard and Tress
The orchard part of the property occupies about 1 hectare, fenced in with live flowering posts of three different types of colorful local trees in hues of purple, green and orange. The orchard is in the natural canyon, with two springs and a running seasonal creek. We’ve cultivated a small plantation of around 600 coffee trees, and 300 banana trees, along with 300 larger fruit trees to provide shade, such as mangos, avocados, papayas, moras, guavas, cherimoya, 5 different types of citrus and other fruit trees local to this area. Along the driveway and the boundary, there are 470 trees, intentionally planted every 2-3 meters. These trees are hardwood, cedar, cipre (cypress), nogal (walnut), arabico (**What is this, I thought this was a type of coffee), copuli serrano (is this the Serrano pepper tree?), local Huilco tree, eucoeno (do you mean Leucaena? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leucaena_leucocephala), pine and 7 other local species of trees. In addition to these trees, are the original old ficas scattered around the finca. All of these trees were planted and irrigation run to them, not for lumber, but for shade, and for the beauty of having a wide variety of Ecuadorian mountain trees on this property.