South American Adventure: The Ciebo tree

The Ceibo tree. This tree seems to have a way of anticipating the rains and begins to bud and turn green well before all of the other vegitation. This tree gets very large and has spikes surrounding every inch of its green fleshy bark. The seed pods have a fiberous material similar to goose down and it is hypoalergenic. People use it to stuff there pillows here. The trees root systems reach deep within the earth and provide great stabalization for the soil.

Soil stability a major issue and one that Planet Drum is working to support. Below is the greenhouse. Nurtured here is nearly 3000 trees of around ten varieties.The past three weeks we have been digging holes and paparing sites for planting, now, it was time to put trees in the ground. The rainy season has begun in line with the New Moon. This timing will give the trees an advantage as they take to their new homes. Biodynamic

We were able to fit about 240 trees in the back of the pick up. Not a bad hual.

We packed it as full as possible and clinched to the parts of the truck that were avialible. It was off the the first site through the light rain with our bounty of saplings ready to be accepted by Pachamama!

This is a Pachiche sapling. We have collected sevaral kilo´s of the friut from the mature tree in order to preserve the seed for spouting later. And as a side we are making wine out of the fruit that is much like a cheery but sweeter with no tartness.. Cheers!