Category Archives: food

Be Careful of the Lemon Tree

Posted on November 5, 2015 by Kris Cunningham

I am currently in California (more on this to come!) but I had a few photos from before I left so I’m using my free time to catch up. There is a lemon tree just outside of our neighborhood and … Continue reading →

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Marvelous Pork

Posted on October 30, 2015 by Kris Cunningham

I’ve written in the past about my friend Cedo’s finca (farm) in Cuesta de Piedra. She mainly manages the dairy cattle, but there are also pigs on the farm. They belong to her son Harry who lives in Panama City. … Continue reading →

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Processing Rice

Posted on September 24, 2015 by Kris Cunningham

There is a lot of rice grown in Panama. Today I had the opportunity to visit a rice processing place which I found very interesting. Cedo was looking for hulls to use as bedding for her chickens. They give away … Continue reading →

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Cleaning Chickens, and Respecting Food

Posted on September 19, 2015 by Kris Cunningham

My friend Cedo has chickens. I wrote about them HERE when they came to her house. Remember these little chicks? The process of raising them from this to dinner has given me a whole new level of respect for where … Continue reading →

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Watching Bananas Grow

Posted on September 2, 2015 by Kris Cunningham

I had no idea how bananas grew before I moved to more tropical areas. I knew what a banana plant looked like, but had never seen the flowers and fruit. There are some huge banana trees in the woods near … Continue reading →

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A Farm Report

Posted on August 22, 2015 by Kris Cunningham

I hadn’t been to my friend Cedo’s farm for quite a while, so I was very interested to see how everything was going up there. She told me there are 11 new calves, and there are more on the way. … Continue reading →

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Another Chicken Report

Posted on August 18, 2015 by Kris Cunningham

The chickens are now four weeks old, and they certainly have changed a lot in that time! They have gone from this at one day old to this, at two weeks old. This is the chickens on the 13th, three … Continue reading →

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Chicken Update

Posted on August 5, 2015 by Kris Cunningham

My friend Cedo has chickens in her yard for both eggs and meat. The meat chickens are the newest arrivals. They were hatched on July 20th, 16 days ago, and came to her house the next day (see the blog … Continue reading →

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Raising Chickens

Posted on July 24, 2015 by Kris Cunningham

Being a city gal, I don’t know anything about raising chickens but I am learning. My friend Cedo has chickens in her yard for eggs, and she recently bought some chicks that she will raise for meat. There was a … Continue reading →

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Saturday Market

Posted on July 20, 2015 by Kris Cunningham

Every Saturday there is a market where the government sells staples like rice, sugar, salt, cooking oil, beans, lentils, and some canned goods. I have been to the one in Concepcion a few times, but I recently learned that there … Continue reading →

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