May 12, 2026

Added: 2026-05-16

[00:00:00]Why are we still using the global north's idea of seasons if most of the world doesn't even experience them that way? Like spring, fall, winter, summer.

[00:00:07]Because in places like Nuquí, Colombia, where I live on the Pacific coast, time doesn't work that way. Here, we basically have two seasons, summer and winter. Winter meaning the rainy season.

[00:00:15][music] The rainy season is happening pretty much the entire year. Summer can last from 1 month to 4 months. This year, it was extended from January until about April, but now in May, we're moving into winter again. The entire ecosystem moves with this cycle.

[00:00:30]Farming, [music] fishing, the rivers, even the whales that come from July through October, coming each [music] year to birth their youth in these oceans. So, life here is always about the water, the tides, the rain, not the four seasons of the global north. But during colonization, these European [music] systems tried to organize agriculture around exporting crops instead of the local ecosystem. So, traditional diverse farming systems were replaced with things like monocropping and large uses of land for products like sugarcane in these colonial [music] economies. And over time, that disrupted the local relationships with land, biodiversity, and food systems, which is so wild because Chocó is one of the rainiest and most biodiverse places on Earth. So, now on our farm, we're returning to the ancestral ways of farming and living, [music] working with the rain instead of against it, working with the tides, the moon cycle, biodiversity, and the actual rhythms of the land. Because this territory [music] and its people already knew how to sustain themselves way before the colonial systems arrived. And if you want [music] to experience something like this with us, follow along and stay tuned for the upcoming updates and excursions.