Welcome!
Commercial Treasures : Coffee
-
Feel Good About Your Cup of Coffee! (1:35)
-
Coffee and Caffiene (3:00)
-
How Coffee Affects the Brain (1:33)
-
When Should You Drink Coffee? (1:24)
-
Coffee Drinkers Live Longer! (1:39)
-
Are There People Who Should Not Drink Coffee? (1:28)
-
Bed & Breakfast at the Toledo Organic Coffee Plantation (1:30)
-
Beautiful Views at the Toledo Organic Coffee Plantation (0:47)
-
Coffee Pickers at Work on the Toldeo Organic Coffee Plantation (1:34)
-
Morning at the Bed & Breakfast (0:58)
-
Bird and Squirrel Feeder at the Coffee Plantation (1:41)
-
Coffee Growing in Rows in the Sunshine (2:44)
-
Picking Ripe Coffee Beans (3:56)
-
A Discussion Harvesting and the Growth Cycle (2:57)
-
Tour through the Coffee Plants at Toledo Organic Coffee Plantation (3:07)
-
A Discussion About Payment for Harvesting (2:31)
-
Tour of the Coffee Plants, part 2 (1:45)
-
A Tour through the Coffee Plants, part 3 (3:48)
-
Red Passionflower Growing at the Coffee Plantation (3:10)
-
Tour of the Coffee Plants, part 4 (3:17)
-
End of the Tour through the Coffee Plants (1:36)
-
Removing the Fruit from the Coffee Beans (2:11)
-
Removing the Fruit, cont. (3:25)
-
The Fruit (3:28)
-
Drying the Newly Harvested Coffee (3:18)
-
Drying Coffee, continued (1:43)
-
Roasting Coffee Beans (1:42)
-
Brewing Coffee (2:36)
-
Lecture and Discussion: Coffee Q & A at the Toledo Organic Coffee Plantation (3:59)
-
Coffee Q & A Continues - Why Should I NOT Drink Coffee? (3:14)
-
What Makes Coffee a "Good" Coffee (2:59)
-
Coffee Growing Q & A (2:04)
-
Coffee Q & A Continues (2:18)
-
The Efficiency and Morality of Coffee Production (3:08)
-
Fair Trade vs Non-Fair Trade (4:00)
-
Consumer Responsibility and Education (2:53)
-
A Discussion About Family Farms (3:05)
-
Coffee: The Fruit (2:20)
-
Other Ways to Enjoy Coffee (2:48)
-
Striving for Less Waste in Coffee Production (2:15)
-
How the Name of the Plantation Orginated (1:45)
-
Tasting Coffee (2:00)
-
Tasting Continues: Food Pairing with Coffee (2:35)
-
Tasting Continues: Light, Medium, and Dark (1:49)
-
Learning About the Differences in Light, Medium, And Dark Roasted Coffees (3:27)
-
Tasting Coffee Continues: How Individual Taste Buds and Flavor Preferences Play Affect Enjoyment of Coffee (2:55)
-
The Bitter Flavor (2:56)
-
Discussion Ends at Toledo Organic Coffee Plantation (1:14)
-
El Trapiche Tour - Coffee (1:30)
-
La Casa Del Cafe at El Trapiche (3:40)
-
Sorting Coffee Beans for Quality Control (2:14)
-
Shelling Coffee Beans (2:30)
-
Susun Picks Coffee at El Trapiche Tour Monteverde (3:05)
-
Roasting Coffee (2:58)
-
Costa Rica is Volcanic Land (3:32)
-
Drying Coffee Beans (4:19)
-
Coffee Pricing and Labeling (3:39)
-
How Climate Affects Growth of Coffee Plants (2:37)
-
Baby Coffee Plants Ready for Transplanting (4:17)
-
Coffee is a Green Blessing! And so is Chocolate! (3:08)
Commercial Treasures: Chocolate
-
Chocolate is a Green Blessing! (1:06)
-
Chocolate is Amazing! (1:57)
-
Chocolate is Good for Your Heart! (1:53)
-
Good News! The Weight Loss Benefits of Chocolate (1:04)
-
The River Flowing by the Eden Organic Chocolate Farm (1:17)
-
Blending and Tasting Delicious Chocolate (2:40)
-
Blending Chocolate! (2:02)
-
El Trapiche Tour Monteverde - A Sugar, Coffee and Cocoa Experience (3:05)
-
Beautiful Mural - El Trapiche Tour Monteverde (0:40)
-
The History of Cacao (1:57)
-
Cutting Open the Cacao (1:08)
-
Freshly Cut Cacao (1:51)
-
Fresh Cacao 2 (0:11)
-
Dried Cacao (2:24)
-
Grinding Cacao for Tasting (2:04)
-
Chocolate! Yum! (1:54)
-
Shopping for Organic and Fair Trade Chocolate (3:02)
-
Bonus! Chocolate Monograph
Commercial Treasures: Pineapple
-
Volcano Arenal (1:28)
-
Driving to Arenal (0:53)
-
Arenal Volcano in La Fortuna, Costa Rica (2:01)
-
The Pineapple Fields of Danny's Pineapple Plantation (1:33)
-
In Search of a Ripe Pineapple! (0:40)
-
Ripening Pineapples in the Field (2:52)
-
The Flower of the Pineapple (2:24)
-
Pineapple Babies! (2:05)
-
Planting Pineapples (3:16)
-
Stages of Pineapple Growth (1:31)
-
Driving by the Pineapple Fields (1:01)
-
Learning About Spraying (1:53)
-
Learning About Sugar Content of Pineapple (1:46)
-
How and Why Pineapple Plants Produce Fruit (2:57)
-
Fertilization and Drainage and Pest Control (3:08)
-
Discussion about Environmental Impact (1:21)
-
Origins of Pineapple and Another Field (1:47)
-
Chemical Discussion, cont. (2:40)
-
Drainage Ditch (0:12)
-
Delicious Pineapple (2:53)
-
Embarking on a River Rafting Trip in La Fortuna! (1:00)
-
What to Expect on the River (1:03)
-
More of What to Expect (1:04)
-
Organic Pineapple Farming Discussion (3:24)
-
Driving by a Local Farm (2:16)
-
Local Farmland (1:01)
-
Discussing Local Cuisine (1:16)
-
Enjoying the Scenery (1:04)
-
Private Entrance to the River (0:50)
-
On the Way to the River! (1:28)
-
At the River! (1:19)
-
Ready to Go Rafting! (1:45)
-
Pineapple at the Descent Integrative Organic Farm (1:41)
Commercial Tresures: Sugar Cane
-
Sugar Cane (1:02)
-
Welcome to Descent Integrative Organic Farm (3:29)
-
Descent Integrative Organic Farm Restaurant (1:56)
-
Self-guided Tour of a Typical Costa Rican Farm (2:21)
-
Pressing Sugar Cane (1:45)
-
Sugar Cane Juice (0:51)
-
The El Trapiche Tour begins (0:16)
-
Sugar Cane, Coffee, and Bananas Growing Together (3:16)
-
Sugar Cane Forest (3:22)
-
Harvesting Sugar Cane (3:53)
-
Bricks of Brown Sugar (3:02)
-
Making Toffee (3:56)
-
Grinding Sugar Cane (3:29)
-
Tasting Sugar (2:14)
-
Your Taxi is Here! (1:26)
-
A Ride in an Oxcart (0:30)
-
Traveling by Oxcart (0:26)
-
A Pleasant Ride and Rosemary (1:12)
Commercial Treasures: Coconut
Spices, Teas, and Ferments: Ginger, Turmeric, Hibiscus, Lemon Verbena, and Stevia
-
Tropical Spices (1:49)
-
Ginger and Leaf-Cutter Ants! (1:33)
-
Benefits of Ginger (3:28)
-
Enjoying Ginger Ale and Lunchtime at Finca Luna Nueva (1:25)
-
Lunchtime and photos at Finca Luna Nueva (2:01)
-
Bonus! Ginger Monograph
-
Turmeric and Pineapple, too! (3:16)
-
Lemon Verbena (1:24)
-
Roselle Hibiscus (3:23)
-
Hibiscus Tea vs Beet Juice (1:14)
-
Lemongrass and Pennyroyal (1:54)
-
Tropical Oregano and Stevia (2:50)
-
Bonus! Hibiscus Monograph
-
Bonus! Hibiscus Sabdariffa article
Spices, Teas, and Ferments: Honey Mead and Coffee Wine
-
Costa Rica Meadery (3:56)
-
Drums of Honey and Mead Tasting (2:23)
-
Talking about Seven Medicines at the Meadery (2:19)
-
Tasting a Lavender Mead, and a Cinnamon & Cacao Mead (4:08)
-
Learning About Traditions of Mead Making (1:28)
-
Flavors and Traditions (5:50)
-
The History of the Meadery (5:27)
-
The History of the Meadery, cont. (5:46)
-
Wild Yeast for Making Mead (1:34)
-
Bottling Mead (2:55)
-
Coffee Wine (2:19)
Spices, Teas and Ferments: Many, many more!
-
Black Pepper (1:38)
-
Black Pepper Vine (0:41)
-
Taking Shelter and Finding Treasures (3:05)
-
Cashews and Annatto (1:59)
-
Vanilla, Nutmeg and Cinnamon (2:42)
-
Breadfruit, Black Pepper, and a Few More Familiar Treasures (2:34)
-
Culantro (1:52)
-
Culantro, Wild Cilantro (1:41)
-
Organic Farmers Market, Spice Vendor (2:28)
Psychoactive plants
Kalidescope of Medicinal Plants: Ark Herb Farm
-
Inside a tropical greenhouse at the Ark Herb Farm (0:46)
-
Anthurium (3:13)
-
Noni (1:14)
-
Angelica (3:06)
-
Eat Your Greens! (3:09)
-
Tamarind (1:50)
-
More beautiful plant varieties inside an Ark Herb Farm greenhouse (1:01)
-
Stinging Nettle (3:23)
-
Dandelion (3:07)
-
A stroll through the fruit gardens at the Ark Herb Farm (4:09)
-
Fun fact about vitamin C (0:58)
-
Comfrey (3:00)
Kaleidoscope of Medicinal Plants: Sacred Seeds Botanical Garden at Finca Luna Nueva
-
Welcome to Finca Luna Nueva (2:59)
-
A Garden Layout at Finca Luna Nueva (2:16)
-
Another listing of a garden layout at Finca Luna Nueva (1:12)
-
Beginning the tour of Sacred Seeds Garden at Finca Luna Nueva (0:26)
-
Sacred Seeds Garden at Finca Luna Nueva, cont. (2:43)
-
Bitter Orange (3:42)
-
Bitter Orange, cont. 2 (3:04)
-
Bitter Orange, cont. 3 (2:29)
-
Tacoma (3:11)
-
Aloe Vera (1:58)
-
Talking about Permaculture. Citronella. Hydrosols. (3:04)
-
Lippia Alba (1:57)
-
Indian Jasmine (1:48)
-
Gavilana (3:26)
-
Gavilana, cont. (2:36)
-
Allspice. Avocado. (2:22)
-
Valerian (1:58)
-
Vanilla. Stinging Nettle. (3:36)
-
Stinging Nettle, cont. (3:17)
-
Amorphophallus and Doctrine of Signatures (4:06)
-
Doctrine of Signatures, cont. (2:37)
-
Sharing Knowledge (3:51)
-
Tropical Substitute for Garlic? (1:18)
-
Chayamansa aka Tree Spinach (1:09)
-
Wild Yam Growing in the Forest (2:51)
Kaleidoscope of Medicinal Plants: Finca Paraiso and Descent Integrative Organic Farm
Kaleidoscope of Medicinal Plants: On the Road
Leaving Costa Rica to Return to the Catskills
-
Susun's Costa Rican Adventure (1:46)
-
Flying Over Costa Rica (0:15)
-
Finding Tropical Treasures at Home in the Catskills (2:09)
-
Purchasing Coffee in the United Sates (1:21)
-
What is Direct Trade? (1:33)
-
Dried Treasures of the Tropics in Your Grocery Store (2:28)
-
Shopping for Treasures of the Tropics in Your Grocery Store (9:03)
Bonus: Natural Beauty and Flowers of Costa Rica
-
Sunset (1:07)
-
Beautiful View (0:31)
-
Mountaintop Treasures (0:48)
-
More Mountaintop Treasures (3:30)
-
Bird Watching (0:25)
-
More birdwatching (0:44)
-
Mountaintop View of Costa Rica (0:33)
-
Viewing Costa Rican Villages from the Mountaintop (0:51)
-
Nightlife by the Poolside (1:40)
-
A Visit to the Hot Springs (1:48)
-
Cedar Trees (0:49)
-
Serenity (0:34)
-
Organic Garden, 6 am (1:02)
-
Farms, Gardens, And Pastures (1:02)
-
Horses (1:15)
-
Windmills at the Top of the World (0:17)
-
Rainbow (0:19)
-
Beetle (1:19)
-
Water Flowing Over Rocks (0:18)
-
Millipede (1:28)
-
Birdwatching at a River (0:25)
-
Cow barn (0:44)
-
Cow (0:17)
-
Billy goat (0:41)
-
Tree Frog (0:24)
-
Frog (0:24)
-
Butterfly (0:52)
-
An Ant's Work is Never Done! (0:57)
-
Tropical Fish Tank (2:26)
