User:Yakusinchi

Yaku Sinchi Organic and Permaculture Farm The Place Yaku Sinchi is an organic permaculture farm, newly establishing, with goals of self- sustainability in all areas including clean energies, crops and animal production alongside a forest conservation program. The People Yaku Sinchi is run by husband and wife Daniel Recalde(Ecuadorian) and Jane Sloan (British). Jane is a practicing homeopath and has experience of organic gardening and animal husbandry and has strong beliefs in sustainability, good health through clean food and education as key concepts to a better world. Daniel with organic farming, animal husbandry and farm products marketing experience is a communicator, dreamer and believer in a better world created by love and respect for both people and the environment. The Location Yaku Sinchi is located in a high valley in the lower foothills of the Western Andes, Ecuadorian province of Cotopaxi and borders on Los Illinizas, a reserve that encompasses subtropical and high paramo regions. The climate is Subtropical Cloud Forest which brings with it a high sight of animals, birds, insects and plants. Temperatures are between 15°C to 28°C with high humidity and rainfall and mostly cloudy with mysterious mists that come and go. There is high bird activity with sightings of toucans daily and the sounds of the howler monkeys can be heard at day break. The farm is steep and hilly and surrounded by forest and all works are carried out by hand with no heavy machinery or tractors.