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Regenerate and Rejoice at Finca Luna Nueva Lodge

May 3, 2023 4:20 pm Published by Tom Newmark Leave your thoughts

By Thomas Newmark, Finca Luna Nueva Lodge Make chocolate in the rainforest? Of course! You’ll take a thousand-year journey through the history […]

May 3, 2022 9:26 pm Published by Tom Newmark Leave your thoughts

Our daughter Sara and her beautiful family (husband Drew and our grandkids Elias and Eloise) visited us a few weeks […]

March 8, 2022 10:18 pm Published by Tom Newmark Leave your thoughts

Well, it wasn’t March 4th, but our souls commanded us to march through the farm with lots of friends, new […]

March 4, 2022 6:48 pm Published by Tom Newmark Leave your thoughts

I don’t eat meat so I can’t confirm this, but I’ve read that acorn-fed Iberico pigs in Spain have meat […]

October 12, 2021 2:38 pm Published by Tom Newmark Leave your thoughts

October 9th, 2021 was a “Big Day,” where birders around the world went out canvassing their ecosystems, finding birds, and […]

February 11, 2021 8:42 pm Published by Tom Newmark Leave your thoughts

The ecologist Carl Safina writes that “macaws are born to be wild. But becoming wild requires an education.” He wonders […]

February 4, 2021 6:58 pm Published by Tom Newmark Leave your thoughts

Welcome back to the paradise of birding in the Arenal region of Costa Rica! We at Finca Luna Nueva Lodge, […]

February 23, 2020 12:37 am Published by Tom Newmark Leave your thoughts

I’ll give you some hints: Carl Linnaeus, the father of the modern system of biological classification, placed these animals in […]

February 15, 2020 3:59 am Published by Tom Newmark Leave your thoughts

With our rich soils, steady water, and equatorial sunlight, everything flourishes. This week we’re hosting a writers’ retreat and we […]

January 25, 2020 3:47 pm Published by Tom Newmark Leave your thoughts

United Plant Savers just published this article I wrote about our dear friend and teacher Dr. Jim Duke, pictured above, […]

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