The last week, students of Forestry at the National Agraria La Molina University of the  Farming Course and accompanied by our teachers Rosa Maria and Cecilia, visited a farm production, research and training in organic farming and wonderfully achieves balance between technology and nature.

It is located in Pachacamac, and is called ?Casablanca Bioagricultura? house?, which has approximately one hectare and is conducted for 33 years by husbands, agricultural engineers and former teacher at the National Agraria La Molina University, Ulises Moreno and Carmen Felipe -Moreno.

In this beautiful paradise as they call their owners, we can find a wide variety of species from different areas of Peru, the coast, the mountains and jungle, like mahogany, cane Emperor (Etlingera Elatior), Molle serrano, among others and although lima does not have the right conditions for growth and development, this is due to factors such as water scarcity. However by using different types of technology that were adopted and the hard work of these wonderful people now Casablanca is an example of the application of alternative energy, as they have found a way to live in harmony with nature and how they say "found their wealth and are happy with it, do not need anything else."

Etlingera Elatior:

From here you can perform important research regarding the development of Biogas, thesis projects, and also produce a variety of crops including chincho, squash, parsnips, blackberry, lucuma all 100% organic.

Something that I found very interesting and I had not seen before is their way of irrigation, using the technique known as irrigation siphon. This is done using flexible hoses and tubes cut in the form of letter "S". This is immersed in the main channel for carrying water. Then cover an entrance which is what will drive the water to the furrows.

Another technique used in Casablanca  is drip irrigation, which is also very efficient in water distribution.

Ulises and Carmen also devised using guinea pig (Cavia porcellus) excrement for gas (methane), biological, bio manure digester and other products they built. This gas serves until today to produce electricity and cooking with it. The biol (resulting liquid) and biofertilizer (resulting solid) to help plants grow and have more fruit, and use it for all crops with which they work.

The Casablanca Biodigestor has a capacity of ten cubic meters. The main part is the central chamber Biodigestor, this camera has three holes: The most important port is the center hole that opens only once a year for the initial loading and unloading. No other hole called side hole serving for the periodic feeding and finally a hole which is connected to a side chamber where it exits the biol.

The feeds Biodigestor background load. This load consists precompost background (made from corn stover and guinea pig manure), you do not need a lot of time as compost, as it requires a complete breakdown.

They also work with compost through anaerobic processes, using all the leftover stubble and, besides hedges used to protect crops.

In conclusion, this visit was really interesting, because as  Mr. Ulysses repeated: does not need to be a millionaire to be happy, to live well enough? and this is true because Nature is so wise that if we used correctly could live in paradise as long as we learn to respect and care, working and making use of available technology to make things more efficient and positive change.

And finally enjoy some delicious natural lucuma ice cream, prepared by themselves.