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I'm building a Pueblo set on a hill, for myself, and 5 or 6 other expat families, who desire a Peaceful, Paradise rural lifestyle with solar-powered-living, abundant fresh food, and off-grid sustainability. We are located approximately 90 km south of Merida, Mexico, in the Yucatan near the pueblo of Mayapan.

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Machines don't remember my name

- October 03, 2022

As I've already told anyone reading this blog, my pueblo near the ranch, is Mayan. I guess most pueblos in Yucatan are too. Mayan in Yucatan are the indigenous people. Many things in life in the pueblos go on today as it has for a 100 years or more. There are still some pueblos here that are not on a road, but far off the roads, have no electricity or running water, no schools, and life exists today for the inhabitants as it did 300 years ago. The pueblos offer many colorful traditions, that probably gringos would find "backward" or primitive. It's fine with me. I'm looking here for simple and peaceful, and Mayan living has helped to wean me off the steady-slow-IV-drip of consumerism I've lived with in the states for many, many years. At my ranch, 3 km from the pueblo, I have 5 men from the pueblo who work for me clearing, planting, climbing trees, killing poisonous snakes, animal care, plant care, fence building and so...

Interesting facts about Mexico.

- August 10, 2023

CURIOUS FACTS ABOUT MEXICO : Its official name is not Mexico, but the United Mexican States. Although its flag was created in 1821, it took 147 years to become official in 1968. Home to the largest pyramid, did you think that the pyramids of Egypt were second to none? The Great Pyramid of Cholula measures 450 meters by 450 meters, rising 55 meters above the plain where construction began around 300 AD. Spanish-speaking country with the most inhabitants, Logic would say that Spain is where Spanish is spoken the most. But with more than 120 million inhabitants, Mexico surpasses any other country. There are 68 recognized languages, One of the most unknown curiosities of Mexico is that there are 68 native languages and 364 recognized linguistic variants in the country in addition to Spanish. Surprisingly, Mexico does not have any official language. The world's largest beer exporter, the Corona brand is the best known in other countries. Coca Cola is the preferred soft drink,...

Fresh pork ribs from the pueblo in Yucatan Mexico

- October 26, 2023

The Maya eat almost everything fresh. They think frozen food tastes funny. And many Maya families don't have a refrigerator anyway. All of the meat is cut fresh and beef and pork and chicken are readily available from one of three different vendors in the Pueblo 7 days a week. They take a different day to slaughter so they don't compete with each other. Beef is 130 pesos per kg. Pork is 120 pesos per kg. and Chicken is about 100-110. However, most Maya families keep a pig or two in the back yard and multiple chickens for their own family consumption. Salvador, my superintendent was slaughtering his pig Saturday night and on Monday morning brought me a kg of fresh pork ribs. My price: 100 pesos! About $5.20 USD or $2.52 USD per pound. They were delicious and I guess would cost four times as much in the states? Video link

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Machines don't remember my name

- October 03, 2022

As I've already told anyone reading this blog, my pueblo near the ranch, is Mayan. I guess most pueblos in Yucatan are too. Mayan in Yucatan are the indigenous people. Many things in life in the pueblos go on today as it has for a 100 years or more. There are still some pueblos here that are not on a road, but far off the roads, have no electricity or running water, no schools, and life exists today for the inhabitants as it did 300 years ago. The pueblos offer many colorful traditions, that probably gringos would find "backward" or primitive. It's fine with me. I'm looking here for simple and peaceful, and Mayan living has helped to wean me off the steady-slow-IV-drip of consumerism I've lived with in the states for many, many years. At my ranch, 3 km from the pueblo, I have 5 men from the pueblo who work for me clearing, planting, climbing trees, killing poisonous snakes, animal care, plant care, fence building and so...

Interesting facts about Mexico.

- August 10, 2023

CURIOUS FACTS ABOUT MEXICO : Its official name is not Mexico, but the United Mexican States. Although its flag was created in 1821, it took 147 years to become official in 1968. Home to the largest pyramid, did you think that the pyramids of Egypt were second to none? The Great Pyramid of Cholula measures 450 meters by 450 meters, rising 55 meters above the plain where construction began around 300 AD. Spanish-speaking country with the most inhabitants, Logic would say that Spain is where Spanish is spoken the most. But with more than 120 million inhabitants, Mexico surpasses any other country. There are 68 recognized languages, One of the most unknown curiosities of Mexico is that there are 68 native languages and 364 recognized linguistic variants in the country in addition to Spanish. Surprisingly, Mexico does not have any official language. The world's largest beer exporter, the Corona brand is the best known in other countries. Coca Cola is the preferred soft drink,...

Fresh pork ribs from the pueblo in Yucatan Mexico

- October 26, 2023

The Maya eat almost everything fresh. They think frozen food tastes funny. And many Maya families don't have a refrigerator anyway. All of the meat is cut fresh and beef and pork and chicken are readily available from one of three different vendors in the Pueblo 7 days a week. They take a different day to slaughter so they don't compete with each other. Beef is 130 pesos per kg. Pork is 120 pesos per kg. and Chicken is about 100-110. However, most Maya families keep a pig or two in the back yard and multiple chickens for their own family consumption. Salvador, my superintendent was slaughtering his pig Saturday night and on Monday morning brought me a kg of fresh pork ribs. My price: 100 pesos! About $5.20 USD or $2.52 USD per pound. They were delicious and I guess would cost four times as much in the states? Video link

End of Rainy season and time to start watering

- October 23, 2023

Rainy season in Yucatan begins about the middle of May and continues thru September. That means it usually rains in the afternoon for about 15 to 45 minutes. Clear sky before, and clear sky afterward. But I noticed this week, that the fruit trees and asparagus ground is very dry. It's been nearly 3 weeks since we got a rain. That is too long without water. We got out all the water hoses and connected them and started spraying today, and I see now that we should plan on doing this once a week, unless we get a good rain in between. I found that a slow 10-count on everything gets the ground pretty soaked.

Bananas in the making in Yucatan

- October 11, 2023

These are not my first bananas. I made 2 other bunches on trees that the wind knocked down before ripe. The banana plant is not really a tree. It is a succulent, so it does not get a woody trunk. Actually, banana "trees" are a fruit making firm. But now I'm got 2 trees with clusters on them and have taken care to get them propped up good to withstand the weight and the wind. These are about 60 days from being ripe and ready to eat.

Road extension for Phase II of my community project in Yucatan Mexico

- July 26, 2023

I have been working now for over a year on the first part of development of my ranch into a community of 5 or 6 families who desire to live a peaceful, sustainable, and off-grid lifestyle, with pueblo life, in Yucatan Mexico. Now I am ready, and starting, to extend the road back to serve 4 additional tracts of land from 12.5 hectares to 26 hectares for interested buyers. First we excavated out the largest rocks and leveled them. Then we smooth some dirt over the surface to make it more level. That is what we have done in the this video. We are about 1/2 back now to the densest trees. In a month we will bring in gravel and cover this dirt to make the road all weather.

Note to self - 1.19.23 Transplanting Asparagus in Yucatan for retail sale

- January 19, 2023

Maybe a reader would be interested. But I'm making this note to myself to refer to later. I planted 500 asparagus plants in mid August 2022 in two rows in my raised-garden-beds. Each row had 3 rows of asparagus with about 75 plants per row. September nothing. October 19th, 60 days later, they popped up overnight. A month later, on November 21, 2022 they were about 30 cm tall (12"). You can see them in the rows between the coconut trees I'm growing (for sale). The coconut trees give the plants partial daytime shade from the very hot Yucatan sun. On November 21, 2022 I decided to pursue growing asparagus for a 2nd income stream. To raise as potted plants to sell retail in Merida in 3 years to expats and nationals who would like to buy a mature plant and begin cutting spears from the plants immediately. 2 mature plants would provide a couple of small family enough asparagus for their own needs to eat it as often as they'd like....

Palm leaves harvesting to make a Palapa roof in Yucatan Mexico

- July 25, 2023

I love learning new things. But sometimes learning a new thing, just means you find out that the old thing you thought you knew was wrong. We've been working, off and on, on a new bodega (storeroom or garage) so I can have a place to put my tractor in out of the rain. Things kept coming up that would demand attention. But now we're back at it and needing about 600 more palm leaves to finish the roof. The leaves that are on it now, I bought for about 7 pesos each (30 cents US). And I guess I've got about 15,000 pesos spent so far and need to spend 6,000 more. I was telling Salvador to get them ordered, and looked over at a palm on my land and asked him could we use those leaves. He said certainly. Now my first thought was "why didn't you tell me this before I spent 15,000 pesos. But then I realize, he didn't tell me because I just told him to buy some and that's what he did. He gives his opi...

A Mayan breakfast in Mayapan Yucatan Mexico

- January 18, 2023

click here for video of my co-workers fixing, and eating a Mayan breakfas t I've got 5 guys that work here with me 5.5 days a week. I could not ask for 5 co-workers that would be any more hardworking than these fellows. The man without a shirt is the "jefe" or superintendent of the others. 3 of the men only speak Mayan but Salvador, the jefe, is bilingual Mayan (first language) and Spanish. I'm learning Mayan but for now we communicate often with handsigns, my own Tex-Mex, or Google Translate in Spanish and English. These men all have their own cows or animals or crops to work, so they come to me at about 6:45 (rain or shine) and work until about 12:30 , Monday thru Saturday. There are other places where you can hire men for the full day, but not here. As part of their work routine, they stop at 10:00 and eat breakfast. There is no time clock punched or hours kept up with. It's just part of the deal, that they work, but they stop for breakfast for a...

Note to self: Big horseflies are gone after only one month in Yucatan Mexico

- August 03, 2023

I've always had a few small flies around. But I've controlled those with a sticky glue trap that I keep hanging up near the porch. About a month ago, some big flies showed up that I've always called Horseflies. They bite. and it hurts. It doesn't sting like a bee, but the bite still hurts. It has seemed like there were hundreds of them around. I've kept myself sprayed with Off Repellent and that has kept them from landing on me. And I have a friend bringing me some fly trap bags that I know from experience are great for catching them and killing them. But this morning, Thursday, August 3, 2023, I was in the pool cleaning it, and got out, and it dawned on me there are no horseflies around today. I'm not prepared to say they are gone for good. But today they aren't here. I'll keep an eye on the for a while and also see if they perhaps just have a one month lifespan?