El Bolson Stories


Hmmm, which flavour today??

We`ve come a little further North to El Bolson, a much more attractive town than Esquel, surrounded by snowcapped mountains, a very laid-back atmosphere and an arts market where the stall-holders possess alot of dreadlocks. It´s still very, very cold (we`ve had no water in the hostel for 2 days due to frozen pipes) although there´s no snow here. So we h...


CIESA

Jonathan and I just completed our first two weeks of a six month apprenticeship program at CIESA in El Bolson. CIESA was started in the early 90s by Argentine agronomist Fernando Pia. Fernando decided to give up his industrial agricultural ways after 1) he was shown a two-headed calf whose mother ate from a field that Fernando had sprayed with a chemi...


42nd Parallel

The southern hemisphere can be confusing when coming from the north. For one, we were once in the midst of summer, and now we wake up to cold, frosty mornings with snow on the mountains. Secondly, if you are going to cultivate a garden or build a green house, it needs to be facing north, not south, to receive the greatest amount of sunshine throughout...