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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...

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

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,...

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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...

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

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,...

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....

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.

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.

Note to self: More about Yucatan Mexico seasons and windy times

- March 28, 2023

It's dawned on me that during this time of year, we get a lot of wind. I can tell because 1. I feel it. 2. I see the trees swaying big and blowing. 3. The windmill has to be shut down often because it keeps the water tank (See previous post Logan's Doggie Pool), full and overflowing. Looking back, it seems to have started getting windy about a month ago in the middle of February, and I remember that because I have several really big brush and tree piles, I need to burn, and I haven't felt safe about starting a fire that might spread to the other jungle. I've been noticing the past few days that it seems pretty still at night after the sun goes down. And stays still until about 9 am when the sun has come up good. The sun and the heat seem to make it more windy. Now, this is not to say there isn't always some breeze here in the Yucatan. We are, after all, surrounded by the sea and the Gulf of Mexico and both of those always bring...

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...

Oh! That cow is going to die tonight?

- August 27, 2022

Some Yucatan pueblo culture. My pueblo is Mayan. There are several cultural changes that I've had to learn there. One, there is no grocery store meat counter in town to run to and grab a pound of ground or a steak. I knew there were places around the pueblo to buy meat because driving through town I'd see big and small pieces having up above the open-air counter. Beef and whole chickens, and sometime what I thought look like pork ribs. In my pueblo there are 3 meat vendors. You get meat from one of the 3 families in town that offer fresh meat. Generally speaking, the Mayan people don't like frozen meat or vegetables. They like everything fresh. I've noticed for a long time, that some afternoons, I'd drive thru the pueblo and see a small, medium or even large cow tied up to a light post in front of a market. They are always just standing there. Today this fellow (and trust me, he was a fellow) was just sitting there looking left and right at the few car...

Rainy season has arrived and my asparagus and coconut tree thrive in Yucatan Mexico

- May 16, 2023

The rainy season officially arrived this past Sunday night, the 14th of May. Thank goodness. Now we stop watering my asparagus and coconut trees and let Mother Nature take over for a while. It's now been almost 9 months since I planted the first Asparagus. And contrary to all the naysayers who said I could not grow it here in Yucatan, my plants are healthy, full and growing. Next year we'll have some spears but two years from now (the 3rd year) we'll have 100's of kilograms of asparagus weekly. Woohoo! Also shown are the progress of my coconut trees that are growing in bags, to be sold in 4 years at retail in Merida. The first ones are very tall now for less than a year old. Probably 80cm and the newer ones are almost 30 or 40 cm. Next year will be a great year for the farm! Click here for video of the progress