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Your Farm Recipe Book
Starts from what you already have: manures, leaves, coffee pulp, cassava, molasses. It recommends bocashi, mulch, amendments, liquids and pest recipes.
Hierbawena · school
Easy, useful, honest. No poisons.
Hierbawena is how this craft is taught: recipe book, farm diagnosis and practice. Farmer, youth, child or agronomist enter through the same door. Theory you walk on lives in Habitat.
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Farm diagnosis
The user pins their land on a map of Panama: elevation, parent soil and nearby residue sources — sawmills, restaurants, other farms.
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Practice the same day
Water and soil first. Then recipes. Every module can be applied on the plot the same day.
Ethic
Three rules. No teacher portraits.
Do not create waste
Recycle the nutrients now thrown away. Every residue is an input.
No poisons
Poisons in food are an aberration. We grow habitat, not a product that makes people sick.
Accessible
Plain language. Recipes from what is on hand. No one needs a degree to enter.
We are convinced that using poisons in our food is an aberration and a one-way path to disease and death. We believe it is our work to assist natural processes to create wealth and health.
From the original Hierbawena site (February 2025 archive). Contact: red@hierbawena.com · +507 6030-1022 · @hierbawena.
Curriculum
Water. Soil. Recipe.
The names who thought the tropics, compost and the web appear as captions on Habitat, not as a gallery of seven portraits.
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Water
Where it enters, stays, is lost. Exercise: draw the rain flow and mark a retention point.
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Parent soil
Structure, compaction, cover. Exercise: shovel, smell, color and worms at three points.
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Habitat and niches
Who lives where. Exercise: a section of the plot — canopy, surface, root, pile.
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Farm recipes
Bocashi, broths, mulch. Exercise: one recipe from what is here today, in the Recipe Book.
Tool
Your Farm Recipe Book
Pick a goal — bocashi, mulch, amendment, liquid or protection — and the app builds a recipe from the materials on your plot. Works offline. Includes typical Panamanian residues.
