Author Archives for Tom Newmark
Regenerate and Rejoice at Finca Luna Nueva Lodge
May 3, 2023 4:20 pm Leave your thoughtsBy Thomas Newmark, Finca Luna Nueva Lodge Make chocolate in the rainforest? Of course! You’ll take a thousand-year journey through the history […]
Family and Friends at the Finca and Forest
May 3, 2022 9:26 pm Leave your thoughtsOur daughter Sara and her beautiful family (husband Drew and our grandkids Elias and Eloise) visited us a few weeks […]
A Day in March at Luna Nueva
March 8, 2022 10:18 pm Leave your thoughtsWell, it wasn’t March 4th, but our souls commanded us to march through the farm with lots of friends, new […]
The Great Dance of Life
March 4, 2022 6:48 pm Leave your thoughtsI don’t eat meat so I can’t confirm this, but I’ve read that acorn-fed Iberico pigs in Spain have meat […]
Toucan Do This!
October 12, 2021 2:38 pm Leave your thoughtsOctober 9th, 2021 was a “Big Day,” where birders around the world went out canvassing their ecosystems, finding birds, and […]
“How can we survive here, in this never-before world?”
February 11, 2021 8:42 pm Leave your thoughtsThe ecologist Carl Safina writes that “macaws are born to be wild. But becoming wild requires an education.” He wonders […]
Welcome back, Birders!
February 4, 2021 6:58 pm Leave your thoughtsWelcome back to the paradise of birding in the Arenal region of Costa Rica! We at Finca Luna Nueva Lodge, […]
What’s emerald, wears a crown, and walks on water?
February 23, 2020 12:37 am Leave your thoughtsI’ll give you some hints: Carl Linnaeus, the father of the modern system of biological classification, placed these animals in […]
Invincible Green Dreams
February 15, 2020 3:59 am Leave your thoughtsWith our rich soils, steady water, and equatorial sunlight, everything flourishes. This week we’re hosting a writers’ retreat and we […]