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Enrique preparing some sugar cane for sampling
Here are some photos from our tour of the agricultural fields of the Anchia family. There are several of us that are staying with some generation from this family. We toured the fields with Enrique who is one of 11 children who inherited 1/11 a much larger farm when Atenas was much more rural than now. The Anchia’s take pains to proudly proclaim that they never fought, and that the 11 even parcels were numbered and drawn out of a hat.
The working fields at this time are small and not geared to large profit. We started the afternoon at the old “trapiche” (wood fired sugar processing facility) of the Farm where are Amara outlined some issues concerning land use in the tropics. Enrique then showed us orange and other citrus fruits, sugar cane, coffee, yucca and breadfruit. He also pointed out various plants with other uses or of some special interest. Beyond the fields a dirt meandered on into the hills. We ended up walking to the top of one these hills where we got a broad vista of the area surrounding Atenas.
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