February 3, 2019
Costa Rica was an amazing experience! I got to live off the grid and learn how to do permaculture on a yoga farm. In the morning I did yoga then had a permaculture class where I learned about planting, soil, building, and the ethics. Each afternoon consisted of a different activity like hiking, going to the beach, visiting the Guaymi people, and helping the sea turtle conservation group. I took advantage of all of these opportunities by always having a camera on hand. This trip built upon my environmental awareness. It is one thing reading it in my books while I’m sitting in my many environmental studies classes and it’s another actually being present and seeing and feeling the Nature around you. One thing that I noticed around Costa Rica is the palm oil farms and you know me, I wrote a poem about it…
Diversity Scalped as palm trees were stripped of their identity and lined up like soldiers; only referred as a number. Not to be confused with a city palm, the Nature and wildness still lurked within the fibers and fronds. Their cries seek revolution against the conformity of man’s society; knowing souly that “the line of beauty is a curve”. These can only be heard by the ones that deem it unjust and wouldn’t harm the earth for a puddle of oil.
I decided to write a poem about this because diversity is very important to the ecology of the rain forest. The fact that the world needs these plantations of palm trees for palm oil which is in a lot of our products makes me sick. If only we farmed with the ethics of permaculture; where we can give more to the Earth than we take.
