"Life's a Beach"

Solidaridad presents Kilo Verde Recycling Exchange Program!   Bring your recyclables and exchange them for indigenous plants!  The program will be held Saturday, from 9:00am - 1:00pm in the Villamar II neighborhood between Islas Antillas and Islas Azores Avenues. For more information please visit the Solidaridad Environment page on ...

Just a quick reminder to everyone that this Saturday February 16 is the next Kilo Verde recycling opportunity. The kids and I went on our first Kilo Verde "adventure" last month to the installation in the La Guadalupana neighborhood in the north end of Playa. I say adventure as there are no signs on the highway for the turn-off to the ...

One of the issues we deal with here when planning to garden and landscape is the lack of good, nutrient rich soil. The Yucatan peninsula is an enormous limestone shelf with little or no soil cover at all in many areas. "Black dirt" can be purchased and delivered to your home or gardening project but even that is sadly lacking in ...

Spice up your kitchen with plants from your very own herb garden grown and learn how to turn your kitchen waste into compost for your garden.      This workshop will be held at the Jardin de MOCE Yax Cuxtal Saturday the 1st of September at 10:00am.  The class fee is $200 pesos.  Call 984-115-4490 to reserve your space. ...

Big spaces are not necessary to have a fantastic garden!  You can feed yourself and your family wonderfully fresh organic produce that you grew with love.  In this intensive workshop you will learn to garden in small little bitty tiny spaces with big results!     This all day workshop will be held at Yax Pax organic ...

Kilo Verde is an exciting and innovative new recycling project that offers native plants in exchange for your recyclable materials.  This Saturday the 18 of August bring your cans, glass jars and bottles, paper, magazines, plastic (PET and PEAD) and your old batteries and electronic equipment to trade for beautiful plants that will easily ...

A few days ago, on our drive back from Belize, I spotted these unfortunate looking fruit growing on a large tree in Limones. I immediately recognized the fruit as Guanabana or Soursop has been getting a lot of facetime recently on the internet, touted by many for its possible cancer curing/inhibiting qualities. I'm not sure about all that ...

Vermiculture is the cultivation of worms and the process of using them in the creation of vermicompost. Vermicompost is the humus rich natural waste created by the worms. Worms ingest many kinds of organic waste, pass it through their bodies, converting it into vermicompost. Vermiculture is a simple process that can easily be managed by the ...

Once again, it is time to celebrate Earth Day, a special day set-aside for all of us to appreciate the beauty of the world around us and work toward protecting it for future generations. The first Earth Day was organized in the United States on April 22, 1970 as a nationwide demonstration, urging ...

Every once in awhile I run across a really neat program that I just know is being over looked or is simply undiscovered by the expat community in Playa del Carmen. We all know about the animal rescue groups to help our homeless four legged friends and the medical missions that help the under-served members of our community. I found an organization ...