Family and Friends at the Finca and Forest

Our daughter Sara and her beautiful family (husband Drew and our grandkids Elias and Eloise) visited us a few weeks ago, and they brought with them a gang of friends and other family members. It was spring break meets family reunion at Finca Luna Nueva, and the group exchanged photos to share their memories. The […]
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A Day in March at Luna Nueva

Well, it wasn’t March 4th, but our souls commanded us to march through the farm with lots of friends, new and old. Two regenerative farming experts, Gaabi Hathaway and Zach Wolf, visited us from the renowned Caney Fork Farms in Tennessee, and Mary Little and her colleagues brought us a busload of students from the […]
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The Great Dance of Life

I don’t eat meat so I can’t confirm this, but I’ve read that acorn-fed Iberico pigs in Spain have meat that tastes rich and nutty.   I once spent months in the French Alps on a meditation course, and I could tell from the flavor of the milk what the cows had been grazing on up […]
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Toucan Do This!

October 9th, 2021 was a “Big Day,” where birders around the world went out canvassing their ecosystems, finding birds, and compiling bird species counts. We at Finca Luna Nueva always participate in these global counts, but this year offered up a twist. Not only did we have humans go out to find birds on our […]
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Don’t Call Mother Nature a Sink!

by Tom Newmark, Chairman of The Carbon Underground, and member of the CRARS Leadership Council Artwork by Sam Hepburn. Guilty! Many of us in the regenerative agriculture movement describe the world’s soils as a “sink” into which excess atmospheric carbon can be stored, and we’ve been wrong. That mistake has diminished the appeal of our […]
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“How can we survive here, in this never-before world?”

The ecologist Carl Safina writes that “macaws are born to be wild. But becoming wild requires an education.” He wonders what happens when habitat loss or other pressures force them to relocate. What happens when caring humans rescue macaws and move them into a new region? Do those glorious creatures somehow ask “How can we […]
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Welcome back, Birders!

Welcome back to the paradise of birding in the Arenal region of Costa Rica!  We at Finca Luna Nueva Lodge, www.fincalunanuevalodge.com, are thrilled to once again be hosting birding in one of the most biologically abundant regions of the world.  We are located in the mountainous rainforest on the Caribbean slope, approximately  25 kilometers east […]
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The environmental climate crisis and the regenerative agriculture solution

We are honored to be featured in the Rodale Institute White Paper titled: Regenerative Agriculture and the Soil Carbon Solution. Where Tom Newmark (owner of Finca Luna Nueva) was given the opportunity to dive deep into the environmental climate crisis and the regenerative agriculture solution. “Global adoption of regenerative practices across both grasslands and arable […]
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#NaturallyInformed: From Farm to Conference

Part two of our coverage of this event looks at the experiences of two farmers who have chosen a regenerative approach: Tom Newmark, of Finca Luna Nueva, and Kamal Bell, of Sankofa Farms. By WholeFoods Magazine Staff -September 4, 202052 We are all—personally and professionally—reliant on farmers. Tom Newmark, Founder and Chair of The Carbon Underground, pointed […]
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