This whole Valley is known as the Valley of the Moon. Chiriqui means something like that in the Indigenous language. The moon is big here, it is bright in the clear unpolluted sky and it tugs hard on the oceans that flank us, the Pacific to the South and the Carribean to the North.
Up here in the mountains farmers work by the moon. If you want a plant to get bushier you prune it on the Full Moon; If you want it to shoot up straight again you prune it on the New Moon.
The weather only seems to change on a Full or a New Moon. Right now we are having some very rainy days. We will have to wait for the Full Moon before things change, fortunately that is only a day away.
Today, I learned something entirely new. Queen bees lay their eggs on a New Moon and flowers are most full of nectar on the Crescent Moon.
Who knew.
Up here in the mountains farmers work by the moon. If you want a plant to get bushier you prune it on the Full Moon; If you want it to shoot up straight again you prune it on the New Moon.
The weather only seems to change on a Full or a New Moon. Right now we are having some very rainy days. We will have to wait for the Full Moon before things change, fortunately that is only a day away.
Today, I learned something entirely new. Queen bees lay their eggs on a New Moon and flowers are most full of nectar on the Crescent Moon.
Who knew.
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